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Our son was home for Thanksgiving so before taking them back to the airport (and before force-feeding him the last piece of pumpkin pie :)), we sat down and made ourselves go through this Bach Invention (#2), which we had not done yet. (No video @rob aylestone - thought about it, but it was...

Well, my iMac is going to be history, and I have a new mini M2 Pro. I'm using an old HP 1080 display 23" (?) that was with my prior mini, but the time I had with the 4k Retina display has me looking at something along those lines. So, any recommendations? Nothing bigger than 27" and I want...

This is one of my first home recording efforts that I still had on SoundCloud, and mostly forgot about, but thought I'd dust off the GarageBand project and remix very lightly in Logic Pro. Maybe brought the vocals more forward than everyone's taste, but about all I did was add some slightly...

Me and a buddy doing a friend's original song here. 2 guitars, 1 mic (SDC) each, 1 mic (dynamic) on vox. Plenty of bleed to go around. Steinberg UR44C interface, mixed in Logic Pro. Video rendered in Final Cut Pro. p.s. It's not really about a fish...

Another of my very simple, and rushed :), home recordings. Been getting rid of stuff (downsizing in the future, and decluttering), and down to a few mics. There's a dynamic in the picture and a couple SDCs just out of frame kind of aimed at the ends of the guitar body. Someone on another forum...

I'm sure I'm one of the last to realize this, but somewhere back in the last year Audacity introduced "real-time" FX and other new features that take it out of the very basic audio file manipulation and kind of "destructive" editing capabilities that I use. I only discovered this because the old...

A couple short mandolin duets. Not a lot going on - the usual little bit of EQ, compression and small room reverb. I'm not sure about the stereo pan - too wide? These are J.S. Bach Inventions 3 & 4 in D and Dm, transcribed for 2 mandolins by Mike Marshall and Caterina Lichtenberg. Played...

Well, it happened. And, I'm not happy about it. My (Apple Store) 2017 "refurb" that I've had for just short of 3 years had its hard drive just up and quit. I mean, stopped solid and no warning. I'm a little PO'd and a lot disappointed because it's not like it's been abused, or even moved more...

It's been a while, but I'm still poking around on this mandolin thing. And, here's a mix from earlier in the week, when my friend stopped by and we tried out a few songs for an open mic the next evening. This is an old Norman Blake tune, with just mandolin and guitar (the primary focus), and me...

Well, yes. Just audio (you're welcome) this time, though this is essentially the track from a video (posted on a FB group), with a quick rinse through the RX de-click because when I turned it up I heard a bit more pick clickety-clack than I liked. For reference song was written by Nancy Blake...

Just released video of this "bluegrass" (once, anyway) artist recording with the lowly SM57 as the vocal mic. I'd seen an earlier one a while back where she used the Miktek PM9, which was one thing that nudged me into that purchase. It's when I really started to see how the mic had not much to...

Acoustic cover of a song by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings (off her Revival album). For the home recording folks, the mandolin, semi-buried rhythm guitar and backing/harmony vocal were recorded using a Beyerdynamic M201. The more-prominent lead guitar was recorded with an AKG C214. Those...

A couple times I've tried to sing harmony (not my strong suit, well, vocals, period, but I try) with a lead vocal sent to me and while I might get "close enough" for my ear, the matching of the amplitude and particularly the ends of words is elusive because I'm so focused on simply getting the...

I got one of these to try out because I'm always trying to find a dynamic mic for my voice that makes me sound good ;). No, actually, I'm slowly getting rid of stuff, and trying to do like a 2-out/1-in thing, or just keep 1 of something, and before the trusty old SM58s go on the block, I thought...

Can't remember if I did this before, but somewhere in a thread here or elsewhere the topic of what kind of audio should be in the video that's submitted to YT. (EDIT: I seaerched, and I did do this same thing in the MP3 sub-forum a while back... Sorry!) This is a video of a practice I did last...

Continuing the slow downsizing. US (lower 48) sales only. Sold locally off Craigslist. (17may2022)

The videos from iZotope (1st 3 seasons, e.g.) are usually largely focused on the mastering tools they sell, like Ozone and RX, but they've started a season on mixing, that looks pretty good. This is the 2nd episode, mostly about monitoring.

This is actually a Norman Blake song (Church Street Blues), with my friend on guitar. Quick home recording - we were just fooling around with the recorder on. 3 mics, 1ea (Soyuz 013 FET) on the mando and guitar plus a vocal mic (SM58). Lots of bleed in my small music room and enough clams to...

I read a (Mac guy) column in the newspaper where he has had some issues with this release, and one relating to a USB hub. I don't use one of those - yet - but I'm definitely holding off on that release probably until .2 or .3, if ever. My '17 iMac doesn't need all the M1+ updates, I know that.

Our son was home for Christmas so I pressed a mandolin into his hands for this one. Recorded on my Zoom F8n with a pair of Soyuz 013 (FET) SDCs about a good 15-18" away from each other and same distance from the mandos, angled slightly away from each other - i.e., no specific stereo recording...