Recent content by Vicshere

That’s a thing of beauty!

When I say “Checking my mixes,” I mean deciding if a thing is truly finished or if I need more overdubs (or to take things out). I have amazing little Genelec monitors in my recording room, but I am just accustomed to only trusting a track in a large living-room through the hifi. Being a...

I always used Taiyo Yuden for their high quality and longevity. Unfortunately, the company stopped making them and, while you can still buy them if you look around, supplies are dwindling, people are selling fake ones or unreliable copies and every other one I burn is corrupt, noisy, doesn’t...

Someone told me that, as my own music won't have lots of metadata, streamers won't recognise and play it. I'm also wondering if playing my stuff through a TV or phone would let me hear it at its best? Am I looking at buying a hifi amp with usb, and possibly a DAC thing as well?

For years (since Portastudio cassette days), I’ve written and recorded my stuff and been able to play it back through my living-room hifi. Back in the day, I would bounce the finished product to cassette. Later, I’d bounce from ProTools to a CD-R and hear it that way. Today, with real Taiyo...