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Hey, I read this forum every day but post here infrequently as much of the subject matter revolves around repair and other tech sorts of things that I have no real understanding of and hence little to offer. I spend most of my time in the mixing clinic and post cassette recordings maybe once...

Here it is...my ode to the mp3 mixing clinic... It's all in fun...hey, I can't mix my way out of a box, which coincidentally, is exactly where this sounds like it was recorded :p. Just some thoughts I've had, things I've read here and stuff that I imagine people are thinking from time to...

Hey, Here I have a cover of a talking heads tune - born under punches. It is from their coked-up, brian eno, post-CBGBs, pre-burnin' down the house era (my favorite of theirs). A pretty faithful cover by my standards anyway... The instrumentation is pretty tight I think, and I found it fun to...

Greetings! This question is kinda specific, but maybe a fellow tascam 688 user can help me here... Ok, I try to avoid bouncing as much as possible, but every once in a while I have something that simply will not fit on the 8 tracks provided. I have a copy of the manual and have read the...

Hey, Sorry to bug you all with this...was guessing it was a common inquiry but I did some searches and found little. I am essentially looking to buy the cheapest bass guitar I possibly can that will be playable and stay in tune reasonably well. That is all I require. I am operating a...

Hey, Here is another recording I came across from '06. It is a cover of a laid back tune by Beck (I think from odelay) - tracked at lower levels than I do now, so more tape hiss than I'd like. The vocals were horrendous, so I re-did them a few nights ago and added some percussion as well. It...

Hey, Here is a recording done right before I started coming to this site in early 2006. This would be before I heard about signal to noise ratio, gain staging and stuff like that. Everything was tracked really low, so quite a bit of hiss. Pretty rough, but an interesting take on a...

This has been bugging me on and off for a while and I'm curious what others think... Do you ever find yourself very satisfied with a recording immediately after the final mixdown and maybe for days after, then you revisit it months or years later and it sounds kinda crappy? Maybe some pitch or...

So, I took an odd passage of effects-laden stuff and sandwiched it between two verses from an old blue cheer song called money troubles. I am a bit lost musically right now and it shows, but maybe there is something here that will float yer boat...

Here is another garage jam from July. Recorded on a tascam 688 cassette multitracker. I just want to make it sound as good as I can... I recorded a drum machine through an amp with a couple of mics and one direct signal and blended to taste. Then, a friend and I jammed along (him on bass and...

Hey, A friend of mine from high school is trying to get back into playing guitar and I am trying to help him. He inherited his younger bro's cheap '90's korean squire strat. Cosmetically fine, but was oddly missing a saddle on the bridge..? Got a saddle ($6 at local store) and new set of...

Here are some pics of my garage...uh, I mean studio... If anyone ever sees me advertising any of this stuff for sale as having been stored in a "smoke-free, dust-free" environment, you'll know I'm lying :D. My son has no clue what goes on in here, but he loves it :). tascam 688 + eq +...

Hi, I have been using my sg to record the bass lines on my tunes for years. This is often the weak link (other than the drum machine, guitars and vocals) in my recordings. Well, a friend of mine visited a few weeks back and brought a cheap Dean bass with him, and we recorded some stuff in my...

Hey, I don't know what is going on with this one. Seemed kind of cool while tracking but the mixes have been all over the place. Moved all my crap out to the garage for the summer and find mixing more of a challenge than inside the house where the sound is more contained. But I can play louder...

No, not black sabbath...the other B.S.;) A friend asked me to cover one of her tunes and this was the result. Listen at your own peril. http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_songInfo.cfm?bandID=660667&songID=6593841

Ok, so first off, this is a grateful dead cover, so i probably lose more than half of you right there. Also, this is just a quick monitor mix (no eq or fx) of something i started tonight, but i am looking for advice on where to go from here... 1) what needs to be retracked? i'm thinking the...

Ok, so I posted this tune back in July and generally the feedback was pretty positive, but there was a long rambling jam-a-thon in the middle and the whole thing was so weighed down with crazy effects that I found it to be kind of muddled sounding. I re-did the song this past weekend and tried...

Hey, I have finished a humble reinterpretation of the Turtles' classic Happy Together and would love to get some feedback (on anything) - particularly the vocal performance and the mix itself. I feel like at least a couple of the falsetto notes at the end of the verses are mildly embarrassing...

Hi, I would have to say that rap seems to be easily the most hated genre in this forum...with that in mind, I ask that you check out my humble reinterpretation of an early '90's rap tune by cypress hill (hispanic rappers from east LA somewhat famous for their minor hit "insane in the brain")...

Continuing my bizarre quest to mutilate hits from the '80's, I give you this strange twist on a number written by burt bacharach. It was something of a hit for the band naked eyes in the early '80's. My wife likes their version and asked me to cover it...needless to say, she is not pleased. The...