Recent content by Sheff37

The only songs that have any kind of demand, for money, are the old big name artists. ZZ Top, Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Motley Crue etc. And most of those artists sold off. They don't own any legal rights to pursue anything anymore. People are only going to want the backing tracks to the old time...

It isn't.

I want a Poly D.

I am still using Sonic Foundry Vegas version 1. I mastered a ton of awesome recordings on it. Why switch? If it ain't broken don't fix it. I do have Ableton 9 but have never even opened the box. Does that look familiar?

But that doesn't mean that selling drum tracks is impossible. There is a big demand for that as drumming is a lost Art and modern drummers have no ability to play any of those songs correctly anymore. Say if l wanted to sell drum tracks of La Grange etc, since l am a contracted BMG Artist, l...

One thing you are not taking into consideration is that, most of the original artists no longer own thier songs or intellectual rights in any form. And l work for a Federal law firm that specializes in entertainment and copyright law. Since l am not a lawyer l can not give any legal advice, but...

You pretty much described my situation to a T. I still have my MT4X 4 track, and at the end of the day l prefer it even to my old 244. But.... it's any day before it buys the farm, and l am not going to fix it. The 388 is still hanging in, but quality 1/4 tape is kind of no more. You can still...

Bingo. And that is where l am at. I love the feel of my 388 and even my MTX-8 console. Just the way you sit and fiddle on it. I pretty much rebuilt my MTX-8 but it's still almost 30 years old. What if halfway through it craps out? But l am still not happy with my guitar tone when l record to...

I agree. The cassette cartridge really wasn't useable until 1980, then it got better overnight and was in fact an insanely good medium. At least once you learned how to use it properly. But to me Teac was the very bottom, and Tascam was just above it. In 1982 we settled with an Akai pro series...

We started recording on 8-track cartridges around 1973 because the sound quality was absolutely excellent. You could afford to get a very high spec unit for quite cheap, and a lot of decks were quad and let you record in 4 track mode and playback in stereo, even on another deck. These units were...

Agree with all of this, skip the 688. I had a 688 in the late 90's until 2008. Absolutely my least favorite portable recording studio. My first was a 244 l bought in 1983. In fact l bought the exact same rig George Harrison bought at the time. I bought a 388 in early 1988 and l thought the...

Honestly, l would say no. We were looking at one before we left LA the first time in 2020, it was dirt cheap but l decided to pass. We're still using a Tascam 388. I put a link to a cover we did of 21st Century Schizoid Man on another thread. When we got it 10-12 years ago, you could pick one up...

That's just a no name classical guitar l bought at the goodwill for $20 to give lessons with. It didn't have fret markers so l cut up a Target sticker and made fret markers so the kids could see my fingering position easier. They don't do stuff like that in college classes. But same thing, that...

We would go down to USC Village and give music lessons in the Starbucks for $20 a pop. We're both classically trained and reading and writing music is nothing to us. The kids would say they learned more from us in one lesson than they learned in a year at USC. Yeah l know only 3 strings...

Didn't attach for some reason. But don't think that street playing is a joke. We're on 7th street in front of the Macy's. First time we did that we made $72 in 18 minutes. Then someone asked us to play "Total Eclipse of the Heart" and they would drop a $100 bill in our tip jar. Another woman...