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The Grammy Association (with help from NARAS) has published a couple of documents relating to audio delivery standards, including the awesome "Recommendation for Delivery of Recorded Music Products".

Tracks sheets and album crediting standards are also on this page. Good stuff.

You're trying to fix the thing that isn't the problem. Your drummer needs to learn to play correctly for the studio. It's not a club show. Heavier on the snare, lighter on the hats, not so crazy on the crashes. Record 8 bars, play it back for him. "Is that what you'd like to hear on the album?" No? ...

my job was to run interference between the A&R guy and the mixer. He would call a few times a day and say things like "it needs to make the shoulders roll" which I would have to translate to something like "more tamborine please". Hilarious! I'd love to see more of these A&R Guy -> Actual Musician ...

I love it! That's a great object lesson in the fine art of "come on & just press record already". Can I ask which track that was?

Thanks for joining & welcome!

The DA-38 was a lower-end version of the once-common DA-88 (Tascam's 8-track digital recorder), used primarily in the broadcast industry. The tapes from a DA-38 are fully compatible with the DA-88's (IIRC). I'm not surprised you're having no luck finding leads in the recording world, as the DA-38s n...

Common wisdom these days among studio designers is that, except in very controlled circumstances, all angled walls do is change your room's standing wave node points from predictable spots to unpredictable ones.

(citation: Tape Op Con 2007 studio design panel)

The analog inserts can also be used as analog outputs using the "hanging tip" method as described (which mirror the digital output). You'd do this if you want the signal to go somewhere other than out the lightpipe to protools. Like to an outboard metering system, or for a no-latency monitoring setu...

The AudioTechnica ATM250DE (successor to the ATM25) has a phase-aligned dual element setup: a condenser and a dynamic in the same housing, with a 5-pin -> dual XLR cable that splits the output to two preamps. I just replaced my Audix D6 with this, and it's pretty nice! You can find them for $2-300 i...

That price seems in the ballpark for small quantity purchases. I bought 2'x4' one-inch pieces last year for about $9 each. Yours are twice the thickness, so 6*18=$108 + a few bucks for the oil wars & goldman sachs.

Walter Piston's "Harmony" is the classic text. I wouldn't recommend it to a beginner, but you said you have some background already. It's a little more classical in general, but the theory is clear and comprehensive. Stay away from the most recent 5th edition, if possible, and look for a used 3rd or...

The glass is angled so sound doesn't come bouncing right back in your face. It's also angled so the area in between the two panes doesn't become a resonant chamber. 1/4" tempered safety glass (it has a laminated plastic sheet sandwiched in between two 1/8' panes, the same stuff they use in storefron...

So sad.

If you remove the breath sounds entirely, you will run the risk of giving the impression that a non-breathing robot is playing the flute. If the breathing is too loud, just duck each breath with some volume automation until the track sounds like a human being playing a flute instead of a sucking win...

Find or generate some test tones and put them on your iPod.

If you're using Firefox you can right click on the image and block it. Thanks! I was just about to post something to the effect of, "I can't even read your posts because of that avatar", but this takes care of it. //Love the Recursahoff, but it's impossible to focus on anything else while it's on-s...