Yes, I don't know, and yes.
-Sure, I'll post a pic to you in the email, thanx for asking. I'll search back thru this thread, and note all the email addresses onto MS Notepad, for future reference.
-I'm not sure you'll 'get any ideas' from looking at my setup, except, '
ohmygod, that guy's insane!'.
-Yes, I've been combing through the archives, and really I have a wealth of material, average, good and great examples of home recording. Remember, it's HOME recording, and I'm not a professional musician or producer!
The truly lousy stuff will remain deeply buried, somewhere in the vaults! Haha. No, actually, reason dictates that if something is really that awful sounding on TAPE, I'm surely not going to waste my time to dub it to CD.
My CD burner is on the COMUTER, and I'm trying to spend as little time as possible 'geeking out', so a stand alone CD burner has become better and better of an idea to me, lately.
Anyway, it's hard to stop 'geeking out' on the computer, when I do part of my job on the computer, and have the computer as the central CD/music archiving station, and also I find a couple of BBS's that I participate in to be really entertaining, and sometimes almost fascinating.
Any time I'm checking a BBS or posting, I'm geeking out, and it does wear me out a little. I get eye strain if I 'geek out' too much, and if I really overdo it, I get hand strain (carpal tunnel).
Geeking out on the computer keeps me away from the studio, and I'm working on that issue, but basically, it's either one or the other. Geeking out on the computer, or doing something in the studio. Not both simultaneously, since I moved the c'puter out of the studio.
Anyway, without geeking out much further, I want to say that I've contemplated MANY, MANY songs and songlists, but when you have 200+ archived recordings, from almost 20 years, the choices and possibilities are endless, so I haven't set anything down yet, I've been brainstorming it.
To say I could represent my best recordings on a single cd, might be too optimistic. All told, end to end, A to Z, my recordings fill up about 10 CD's. Deciding on my ONE CD's worth of my 'best' recordings is a difficult task, at best.
Granted, all of those recordings are not gems, but a great many of them are... if you're into cover tunes, like I am.
Also, I've been contemplating a short info format to go with the CD, detailing the songs with: title, artist, album, year, production format, what I play or don't play, what I like about the song, what I don't like about the song & general notes. I may have covered songs you may never have heard before, and definitely some you have. Needless to say, just throwing a few CD's together is a lot of work, but I'll do it.
Remember, it's a 2 way street, at least, and I'd like to hear other users' recordings too. I prefer CD format, but would be ok with tape.
Anyway, you might not get any tips or ideas about your studio by looking at mine, but maybe you will. I'll mention a few points that come to mind.
First, I have all this recording gear ideally to use, and record, and so on. Everything I intend to use must be layed out so it's as accessible as possible. If I bothered to buy all this gear, I don't want it to be stuffed in a box in the garage somewhere, I want it where it's just in reach.
I need a quick 'drop in and play' setup, to capture my creativity, which is sometimes fleeting. Ease if use and accessibility is IMPORTANT to me, and that's a BIG reason I SHUN DIGITAL AND DAW. I don't really want to get all geeked out on technical issues, when all I really want to do is play music and record. This was one of many reasons I HATED
the Tascam US428, but I won't get off on THAT tangent, now.
Back to the basic setup, I like to keep cable runs as short as possible, and also to keep signal level cables away from power cables and transformers, as much as possible.
2nd, if you have a TV or computer in the studio, TURN IT OFF when you record, because it will create a lot of interference and ambient noise. My computer and TV were removed from the studio, through part of a major rearrangement that I did recently. I'd probably prefer to have a TV and computer back in the studio for convenience's sake, but I just ran out of room. (The pic will explain this).
3rd, I have all my main instruments layed out so they are accessible too. It's just a one room studio, and I'm really cramped for space now, especially since I got all this 'extra' equipment.
Mainly what I would try to point out, is that everything in the studio is accessible and functional. I have everything I need, and then some, all in this moderately sized space.
The only other thing that may go without saying, is that I think the studio is there to be a place of 'activity', and not just a room with a lot of stuff set up just to look at.
Having said that, I'll check a few more posts, and sign off. I'm too 'geeked out' on the comuter already, today.
Cheers, and I'll post a few pics, and a few notes.
PS: recently my wife's biggest complaint was 'you spend all your time on that damn internet... all you ever do is 'reply'! -Honest truth.
I want to refocus myself so I hear my wife say, 'you spend all your time in that damn studio, playing that damn music! All you ever do is whang whang whang on that damn guitar!'. -HAHA
I haven't made a quality recording yet (meaning my playing ability not the recorder or recording) I've put together a few cover's, get back, back in the USSR, born to be wild, honky tonk women, ….. and like I said I am very surprised with the amount of control with the playback and mix down although I haven't gotten the kind of results I want with my drum set yet, but then I'm using condensers mic's that are at least 15 years old and have been through hell in that time too. It's amazing that they still work at all. There Pyramid Phase III's that I think I paid $25 for the pair at the time!!! 
