Glen has put a lot of effort in this site and has done a great job. I agree, the site is a great source of information for frequently asked questions and also has some cool articles with information not on this forum. I believe that this forum has in large part helped to inspire Glen's site (since many of the contributer's came from here). One of the good things about G's site though is that you don't have to sift through a lot of noise to get to the nuggets. One of the good things about the forum is that you can pose new questions, and have a dialog.
I think that both compliment each other very well.
Yes, please let's not give anyone the idea that my site can even come close to replacing any of HR's forums. That is not it's design nor it's intent. Dragon and I get along well, and I'm sure that he knows that I have no intention of stepping on his toes in any way.
Tom hit it exactly on the nose when he said this BBS inspired the IRN site, that is exactly what happened. When I first came here a few years ago, I had no clue that there was anything like IRN in the future, I was just looking for a recording and mixing forum in which to get and give ideas. After about a year or so, I saw a real trend at that time for there to be a LOT of confusion about how compression worked and how to use compressors and so forth. The same questions were flying all over the place over and over. So I figured it might be nice to just lay just the basics out in pretty good detail in one central location , not only to help answer the questions, but (quite frankly) to save myself from having to type the same thing over and over again in here (I'm not exactly Mr. Altruism all the time
). That's where the "Compression Uncompressed" applet came from. That CU booklet came to be wildly popular, and people kept asking for more stuff, and next thing I know I committed to building a full-scale site out of it.
After time, and after getting to know some of the fine folks like Tom around here, I invited a few of them to join in and pool some of their knowledge on that site (and welcome any applications from others who may be interested). As you all can see from Tom's interview at SonicBuds, he is both a smart guy and a good writer, so - as hard as it has to be with his schedule as a full time ME and also a college professor teaching this stuff - I think we are all lucky that he has made a couple of excellent contributions to the IRN site as well. I'm hoping there's a few more "Stupid DAW Tricks" and "Around The Console" contributions coming down the pike sometime when his schedule allows (hint hint!
).
But no matter which site it comes from, you know that when it comes from Tom's (or John's or Jay's or Jon's or Ben's) mouth, it's probably worth listening to and respecting. (Unless they've been raiding the IRN stash of rare scotch malts while I'm not looking again, in which all bets are off...
).
And this mastering interview at SonicBuds is something that should (hopefully) be used as a FAQ resource here, because there are sure a lot of F.A.'d Qs answered in there.
G.