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Rob's post is either the most useful and fantastic post on the subject or one to totally ignore. Here's a real living paradox for those that don't understand paradoxes ~ it's both.

I could look it up. But sometimes, ignorance is bliss.

I don't even know what erstwhile means.

I thought this was going to be about the mellotron ! My erstwhile lover.

Firstly, what kind of chimes are we talking about ? There are quite a few different sizes and the number of actual tubes varies. And then are we talking metal or wood ? I have recorded chimes quite a bit. My chimes are small metal ones and I think they sound pretty lame, bordering on shrill...

I didn't think the drumming was sloppy at all. But it's always hard to tell when there are no other instruments playing along. And sometimes, it's the other instruments that aren't keeping up and that makes a drummer sound sloppy, even when they're not. Anyway, I digress. I thought I recognized...

Back in 2004, when I first bought Garritan Personal Orchestra, it came bundled with Cubasis. In those days I was so new to any kind of digital recording that I didn't even know if Cubasis would do what I wanted it to do. At that time, I really wanted a DAW to house the virtual instruments I was...

No. A didgeridoo will do the trick. With lots of compressed chorus-ey reverb, chopped at the tails.

They practiced their singing, instruments and songwriting ! ?

Solve all of life's mixing problems by adopting the Purple method ¬> have everything up louder than everything else. ?

Ringo did this on the Beatles for Sale album.

When I started recording drums, I'd have a specific mic on the hi-hat but I've found that I don't need that anymore. And I don't think I've ever miked the cymbals. The overheads {or in my case, the underheads} pick them up nicely. I put them under the level of the cymbals so the cymbals never...

Or you could do the whole thing in Dm with an F drone.......?

I don't like the bass drum on any of them, but the 2nd was the best. The snare is.....well, it has no snap or meat on any of them. It's close in sound to the kick. Too close. The hi-hats are OK sound-wise. Can you include some toms and cymbals in the clips ? Can you also include some bass or...

They are. There again, Tom Dowd doesn't record guitars for me and I like the sounds that I do get, so it's kind of moot. I'm not after any person's sound.

So really, you do care about the words. Just not consciously or beforehand. I don't think it's sad. I'd say that was normal for a huge percentage of people that have listened to music for the last 70 years. Much of the time, one would know the chorus of a song {the hook}, but no other parts...

I agree with mixing it up a bit. That's part of my MO for recording, actually. But I have to say, the ear-level logic doesn't always "make". People have often suggested that with electric guitar, too, put the mic where your ears are. Logically, I get it and on occasion, I think it's as good a...

I never really used to, but for years now, conceptually mixing as I go has been the way to go. I say conceptually, because it's not until I have everything recorded that final decisions can be made. I always reserve the freedom to switch things up a bit. When it has been said that mixing is both...

Lyrics are not poetry ~ but they can be. And sometimes, they sound ever so poetic with music ~ but when isolated, the words aren't poetic at all. And sometimes they just sound ragged. To me, lyrics are paradoxical. They don't matter, yet they do. They often really are important to a song, and...

Stacking ? Compression ? Re-compression ? 8:1 ? 4:1 ? WAV ? Random thoughts ? I barely speak English ! o_O