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There's more than one way to skin a cat and it's not "wrong" to compress during tracking. Nothing is "wrong" in recording. It's a creative endeavor. What matters is, are the results what YOU want? But the same applies to trying to cookie cutter your recording technique. Nothing sounds worse than...

I don't have experience with the Model 24 but I would also recommend you consider the Portastudio (DP24) first. If your use case is recording, it has a major superpower: the optional footswitch. This lets you do punching in and out on the fly while you are alone so smoothly and effectively it's...

Yeah, agreed. That's a crazy good price. The only competing product is the Zoom Livetrak series but in my experience the user experience and workflow on Zoom's products gets in the way more often. Tascam has it figured out.

I use CD Baby. A related product that CD Baby pushes toward you is radioairplay.com. Was curious to hear if anyone else had tried it

Pretty sure the point of the Tascam Model XX products is that they connect up to your DAW in addition to providing you remote recording capabilities. For all the stuff you're talking about, the Model 16 (or 24 or whatever) would connect to your existing DAW so there's no need for the Model 16 to...

You can definitely get a little hair like what you'd get with a gain plugin via outboard gear. After all, any gain plugin is an emulation of what happens with outboard gear. You can get gain off preamps or compressors or also via unorthodox means such as guitar amps and pedals. (There's even the...

True. I just know my own experience. Never used minidisc tbh. Now I know they are far superior. But ... just imagine being a teenager and going down to the electronics store and you look at prices, and you see: $15 for one minidisc. $10 for 6 cassettes. I'm sure those aren't real numbers and I'm...

Just get rid of it. Before long you'll find other things that suckkkk about SGs. I had one for years, misguided and trying to love it the whole time, modded it every which way. One day I literally threw it down on the stage in disgust in front of a crowd. By the time I put it up for sale I...

Interesting! A bud and I used to have this debate all the time. I would say, "Songs are more popular because of their hook. For proof just look at Nirvana. Certainly fans of Nirvana never had any care for what the lyrics were," and he would say "no songs are mostly popular because of their...

I grew up around this time and the reason was that minidiscs were freakin expensive as compared to cassettes.

Also watch out for Shure SM58's online ... been seeing some discussion recently on Reddit about counterfeits

Hi @Manlikechez welcome to the forum. I have a couple eBay tips I use. 1. You can use "Advanced Search" to find Sold listings which gives you an idea of what the price range is for whatever you're looking for. This helps you not to overpay which is a real danger because some sellers list items...

I agree with this. If you need more of a DAW then Reaper is more useful than Audacity. You'll find features you might like such as the ability to quantize audio to a different BPM. But if you're doing more of editing audio files, then Audacity works fine. It just depends on what you're doing...

Which one?

This Monty Montgomery video is pretty good about the digital vs analog "difference" and shows that an analog waveform is reproduced perfectly from a digital source. That doesn't mean that due to other various reasons from the manufacturing process to the playback device and everything in...