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That has a beautiful sound. I first heard of a mandocello back in 1980 when I bought Cheap Trick's "Dream Police" album. It's listed in the credits as one of the instruments Rick Nielsen plays. But though I've heard the album hundreds of times {it's a great album} I've never been able to...

Well, if you can hear a definite difference in the mix and it is a pleasing difference to your liking, then why not ? Go for it. Me, I'm a peasant. A guitar is a guitar. As long as it does what I want it to do, cost doesn't come into it......unless you're talking 5 figures and more ! :-)

Mine neither sped up nor slowed down in particular. It all depends on the song. What the DAW has afforded me though, is the capacity to add sections from what is already recorded {cleverly and nefariously disguised ??} without risking losing all by being useless with a razor blade. I never do...

I think tape emulators are one of recording's most hilarious ironies. They spent 50 years drooling about the day when something like digital recording would exist and do away with the limitations imposed by tape, then when it did, they went full tilt boogie into making the very tape emulations...

I was a lover of tape....until I wasn't. To be honest, as an actual recorder, I never found any sonic difference between tape and digital, other than I could distort tape and it wouldn't sound horrendous. Until it did. Both mediums are what they are and it's the way one records that really...

When I first saw the question, I thought of you and I was hoping you'd chime in. Keith, this is the guy {along with Slouching Raymond} that you want to be listening to primarily. The rest of us are the supporting cast.

I hope someone can help you but this may be just that time in your life where you have to take the plunge and get to grips with a manual. Don't take this the wrong way, but in my opinion, aversion to manuals is a choice to continue in aversion......I get it {believe me, I do} that they are...

Monkey Allen, why not ask one of the contributors here to have a go at mixing one of your songs and see if you feel the same way. I've never thought of myself as a good mixer but I have definitely improved a bit from where I was at the start. And now, I like my mixes, even if I don't have "Sound...

Man, dems de blooze.

While having dallied with the postmaster's wife I'm a fine one to talk, I have to agree with this. Perhaps my biggest problem though, is that it sounded generic like a thousand things I've heard before and too much of.

There is, but if you hear some commercially released tracks it's surprising how noisy the tracks can be in isolation.

It's hard to describe exactly what I do because I just do it. I'm not too bothered about my mics picking up sounds from outside because in general, they come in at such a comparatively low noise floor. Sometimes, the sounds are actually quite attractive. I've had a soft reverb-y intro with...

We're on the same page. I remember years ago, one of our contributors, Ezy Willis, a guy I always had a lot of time for, was talking about bass and he said something to the effect that "a bass is just a bass. No song became a hit because of the bass tone" but I always felt that was missing the...

My friend who used to play drums on a lot of my stuff had a Fender Precision. He may still have actually. He's been living in the States for years and I think that's the only instrument he has kept. I was a little intrigued when I first heard he'd got it but when I heard him play it, it didn't...

Yayy !! On the home recording front, yours were the first drums I really listened to with both ears. I remember back in 2010, even though I loved the 'Cloud' album, I intensely disliked the snare sound. It felt compressed to the skies and it was a sound that I just about tolerated. But as I...

I've never had the luxury of a 'great' or 'name' bass. I did have a Fender Musicmaster a couple of times in the 80s. When I first got one, I thought that simply because it was a Fender, it must be quality. It took me months to save up for it. It was certainly a step up from my shitty 2nd-hand...

I think this is key. The OP has stated that he doesn't want to go the computer route. And he shouldn't, because that's not the route he wants to take. Now, it may turn out that a seed has been planted with the advice he's been given and he may eventually look into it and end up going that way...

I find this an interesting thought. It seems another way of saying that basically, all lyrics should be autobiographical or self-referential. But I could have grasped the wrong end of the stick. What exactly do you mean ? What do you see as being unacceptable about crafting lyrics ? That's...

I have never found this. I've recorded outside noise for years and lots with cars, vans, buses and motorbikes, on dry or wet roads and they sound as lifelike as they are. When I float them into songs, they sound good. If I want those kinds of sounds, I place my handheld Zoom at some point close...

I loved analogue tape. I love digital drives. However each work is how each works. Whatever one's preference is, it's right for them. Two seemingly opposing things can both be true at the same time. With that said, during the first 50 or so years of recording, artists, engineers and producers...