Recent content by suproboy

Whoa-new can of worms now. Research has shown that chocolate produces significantly elevated, if fleeting, levels of serotonin in the brain. And what has John Milton done since Paradise Lost? Such a sour-puss.

Whoops...I meant to name Bertolt Brecht, not Kurt Weill. Either way; they were like schnitzel & noodles, red beans & rice, cornbread & molasses, know what I mean?

Favorite lyricists Some notable omissions from the pantheon to date: * Cole Porter...arguably the greatest lyric writer ever. I'm not makin' that argument, but what a great songwriter * Johnny Mercer.."Autumn Leaves"? c'mon... * Hoagy Carmichael...Stardust, Lazybones, Rockin'...

Right on, the singer HAS to sell the song, i.e. sing it with conviction and purpose even if the lyric is banal. Great vocalists make it look easy, whereas those of us less gifted (like me) tend to do a lot of huffin' & puffin' and generally make listeners wish the sorry warbler would just go...

I'll buy guitar strings, cables, picks, and maybe a nose flute at Guitar Center if I have no other recourse, but I would not make any major purchase there. Guitar Center makes Wal-Mart look like Mort Drucker's General Store (see: Green Acres; Eddie Albert, Eva Gabor), and I would just as soon...

Tape Op is one of my favorite publications, period. Unglossy, unkempt, & a bit rude, it has about one one-hundredth the operating expenses of the major mags, which tend to be (in my view) advertising vehicles for the pro-audio industry, kind of like Vogue or Vanity Fair without the perfume. Not...

worn out cliches... True, there are boatloads of love songs out there, and it's hard to imagine there will ever be major re-developement of the basic templates...I do think it is important to acknowledge and tip one's hat to those songwriters who bring a genuine spark of new life to a genre...

After using my TASCAM 424 MKIII for the last year I've decided to upgrade to a DAW. I don't neccessarily need a lot more tracks-I even may stick with four-track. My priorities are sound quality, ease of use (I'm a hopeless luddite, but are ALL manuals translated from Tibetan manuscripts by...

Radio signals in the mix Thanks to all of you who responded to my cry for help. I have not yet gotten to the bottom of the cause of my troubles, but it's kind of reassuring to hear that my problem (something in my apartment is acting as a radio antenna) is not unheard of. Oddly, (or perhaps...

I'm putting together a home recording studio, and am a complete novice. I have a used Tascam 424mkIII, and a couple of used Shure mics, an SM57 & SM58. I'm picking up radio signals on my initial test recordings, & I don't know if it's the microphone cables, the mics themselves, or something...