Hello all. I've posted a couple of things, so I thought it's time for a brief introduction.
I'm 48, a former "pro" guitar player who gave it up for 20 years and have just gotten the bug back in the last couple of years. I did quite a bit of recording back in the late 70's and early 80's...jingles, TV and my own stuff. The best thing was one of my best friends was the electronics tech and an engineer in training at a local studio here. He had keys to the place so we spent a ton of time after hours getting to know our way around the gear. I should say he got to know the gear...I mostly provided the raw material, but I did get to do some knob twiddling. It was a 16 track Neve board with all the bells and whistles. An album recorded in this facility won a Juno (Canuck version of a Grammy) for production, so the stuff definately worked.
Things have obviously changed since then. The technology around today amazes me.
What I want to do is put together a home hobbiest recording rig. I have the free version of Mackie's Traction that was available last year and the demo version of Fruityloops. Right now I'm still at the wrapping my mind around the technology phase. So I'm looking forward to advise and guidance from the members here as I get this thing going. From what I've read here so far, there is a lot of knowledge to be tapped into floating around here. Maybe I can help out with some old school techniques (we did some wild things back in the day and got some amazing tones on tape). This should be fun.
I'm 48, a former "pro" guitar player who gave it up for 20 years and have just gotten the bug back in the last couple of years. I did quite a bit of recording back in the late 70's and early 80's...jingles, TV and my own stuff. The best thing was one of my best friends was the electronics tech and an engineer in training at a local studio here. He had keys to the place so we spent a ton of time after hours getting to know our way around the gear. I should say he got to know the gear...I mostly provided the raw material, but I did get to do some knob twiddling. It was a 16 track Neve board with all the bells and whistles. An album recorded in this facility won a Juno (Canuck version of a Grammy) for production, so the stuff definately worked.
Things have obviously changed since then. The technology around today amazes me.
What I want to do is put together a home hobbiest recording rig. I have the free version of Mackie's Traction that was available last year and the demo version of Fruityloops. Right now I'm still at the wrapping my mind around the technology phase. So I'm looking forward to advise and guidance from the members here as I get this thing going. From what I've read here so far, there is a lot of knowledge to be tapped into floating around here. Maybe I can help out with some old school techniques (we did some wild things back in the day and got some amazing tones on tape). This should be fun.