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I do some recording and burn CDs using my computer also. My understanding is that computers and stand-alone digital workstations work about the same way. A combination of hardware and software is utilized to produce the final product/CD. At one the time the argument could be made that...

I like a lot of songs which I mostly don't understand what the song is really about. I would like to think that I am a more sophisticated listener, but it often come down to if the song hits me in the gut or not. I think in my case I tune-in to just one line of the song and take that to heart as...

I don't know how this site comes up with its numbers but maybe it can help you nail down an asking price: http://www.prepal.com/data/Yamaha.htm

Very ambitious sounding...sounds very well thought out to me (well written)...I would like it better if it was a bit "tighter" timing-wise (it sort of sounds like two different songs are playing "on top" of one another.

I once read in Keyboard Magazine (I think the article was about the 20 greatest advances in music technology) that the Korg M1 (intoduced in the late 80's) marked the birth of the modern keyboard, that the keyboards that followed resembled and functioned similar to the M1. I probably read that...

When I was a kid (early 70's) there was an upright piano in our house (I don't know where it came from, I would say the piano was 20+ years old, I'm pretty sure it was handed down from previous generations or came with the house). No one in my family had a lot of ability with it (little...

I very much like a lot of Beatles songs (most of the Sgt. Peppers album, "Strawberry Fields, "Golden Slumbers", to name a few)...I don't care for "Get Back" (as in "Get back to where you once belonged")...I hear it a lot on the radio, it must be considered a great Beatles song, but it just...

I used to get the song organized "on paper", sequence the bass and drums sounds (along with piano, string sounds, etc.), mix them as best as I could on the keyboard (anticipating the latter addition of guitar and vocals), then record this "foundation" music for the song (that might contain 6 or...

The pres are junk... (couldn't resist) I don't know anything about these but I remember reading about this before: https://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=253336 https://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=160729

I think something happens on a chemical level in our brains...I will be listening to a song for the first time (maybe only halfway paying attention) and then something happens (maybe just for one moment in the song) and it hits me (probaby like when the drug starts coursing through the addict's...

I don't know where Window Media Audio (WMA) stands (maybe it just doesn't have widespread support, for example, in our Mixing Clinic and Soundclick) but a 128 kbps WMA file sounds a lot better to me than a 128 kbps mp3.

Adjusting EQ (that results in making a song sound better, instead of worse) has been about the hardest thing for me. When I started using a 4-track cassette about 10 years ago I consistantly set both the bass and treble at 3 O'clock (12 O'clock was center, no boost or cut)...I was using my...

Do you have Media Player (which usually comes with XP) ? You can burn a CD with it. I have Cakewalk Pyro 2004 (I think of it as poor man's mastering software), with it you can record a stereo track from the "outside" (old records, cassettes), adjust volume of each individual song (within a...

I thought I remembered them being praised for being especially good for bass DI, I did a search...don't know if this is the exact same Art product but you might find this interesting... https://homerecording.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=196293&highlight=bass+art+tube+studio+pre

With a good song concept, and the technical ability to perform it in place, a 4-track cassette machine is capable of rendering a very accurate recording (especially if you can get everything on the 4-tracks, without bouncing). I remember recording on a Yamaha MT-50 4-track cassette (which I...

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Here is some info and reviews on the TG100... http://www.sonicstate.com/synth/yamaha_tg100.cfm There are those who have the philosophy that every keyboard (in this case a module), no matter how humble or obsure, has some unique sound(s) that can be exactly what is called for in a specific...

I think the modern-day Yamaha PSR keyboards sound quite good (I've owned several PSR models during the last decade) and would be a good first keyboard. There are hundreds of sounds (you can experiment with "real" piano-sampled sounds, fill out your guitar-based music with string sounds, noodle...

Yeah I've read this before...a roadie acts as the recording engineer (using a humble cassette 4-track)...the mix-down deck is a battered boom-box...He carrieds around the mixed-down cassette in his jeans pocket...the songs end up being a pro-release album...Its inspiring to those of us with...

Hey...I'm a hack on the piano (I noodle around with keyboards with sequencers) but I have seen this guy on PBS called "The Piano Guy" that you might want to check out. His technique is to get people playing right away with chords and melody. You can probably catch his show sometime on PBS before...