Cool!
Your so right - It's definaltey not about having thousands and thousands of pounds worth of tools, it's how you use the gear you've got effectivley!
As well as this, If I attempted to record, for example, a Jazz band, it'd probably sound shocking!
Basically all of my recording experiance has been steered towards producing stereotypical metal type sounds, and that's definatley where most of knowledge is at.
I great example of the 'It isn't about how much you've got, it's how you use it' theory is when my old band luckily got a recording slot at the BBC studios in Manchester via my friends dad who works in there (A good couple of years ago).
Man, this place was LUSHHH, I almost fainted when I went in. The gear was unbelievable, they'd just got a whole new desk/console worth over 1/4 of a million for a start!! We were one of the first bands in there to use it..
Anyway, to cut a long story short, the 3 tracks we made in there sounded pretty awful! The engineer (my friends dad) didn't have much of an idea of what we were after sound wise (granted, we should have showed him some examples on CD or something)... And the techniques he was using to capture our sound was a little bizzare.
I couldn't believe that my sub £2000 setup was totally out-doing a studio like this! I thaught everyone recording in a lush studio like this was automatically going to sound AMAZING, simply because everything was worth top dollar... How wrong was I?
Obviously the BBC studio's could totally blow my setup results out of the water if used properly... But you know what I mean!
James.
Unfortunatley I don't have any better pictures of that poster 
