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Inspired by gibsonguy09, I decided that I would post the lyrics to one of the first songs I ever wrote. It's been lying around and I've never put music to it (I have a melody in my head, but I've never figured out how to put it to music). Anyway, this is where my head was at 23 years ago...

My wife's niece found out about my little hobby and she made a cassette tape of some karaoke songs that she wanted me to fix and burn to CD for her. The god-awful "reverb" on the karaoke mic aside (I can work with that, some), she was eating the mic when she was recording and I have a ton of ear...

My wife wants me to transfer some of her cassette tapes to CD. I have all the equipment I need to do this, and my idea was to capture them as .wav files then clean them up in Vegas. I thought about going through my MG10/2 to boost the signal a bit and try to clean it up going in. The problem...

I did the collab for guitarhunny, and lo and behold, it turns out that I was having pitch problems (about 15 cents off according to Bruce). He was right. I checked out my intonation and it was waaaayyyyy off. Now it gets sticky. I had it "professionally" set up when I bought it. Every note was...

I had asked about a shotgun condensor my friend was going to give me awhile back. Well he brought it over last night and we were goofing with it. Again, I didn't think to get the exact model, but it comes with a "AA" battery. It won't work without the battery installed, and the phantom power on...

I have a song in it's final stages, so I need some critiques. I played everything as usual, and sang all voices. I have a friend coming over and in a few days, he is going to sing this for me, so my lead vocal is a scratch track. don't mind that. I got my new Yamaha MG10/2 about two weeks ago...

... and you'd think I would know better, but I don't. A friend of mine has a condensor shotgun mic that he knows nothing about, other than it has a switch to make it short range or long range, and he wants to give it to me. He doesn't know the make or model number, and it's not accessible for...

You fill my desire or You're the one I desire or whatever.... It's a line written into almost every love song in one form or another. The cliche' is to rhyme it with a line that ends in "Fire". See if you can come up with something original. Let me know how you would finish this off...

I posted this idea in the cave, but not everyone goes in there, so: People generally put up their best songs for critiques. I want to see the worst you've ever done. PM me with a link, and I will post it in the clinic. We can set it up with a poll so you can vote on the worst song. Leave a...

OK, thinking about getting my second HDD... I can get my hands on a new 120GB Western Digital 7200RPM Ultra DMA HDD. I have an HP with an AMD Athlon XP3000+ 2.10Ghz processor and 512 RAM. I already have another stick of 512 I am going to drop in there. The question I have, is do I need to put...

If you had to give something up, which of your gear would be the last thing you would ever let go? I am not talking about instruments, just the equipment you use to get your sound recorded after that? EDIT: just for some clarification, if you were doing a recording session, which peace of gear...

...ever go back to their old analog stuff? I have a Tascam MF-P01 that I still use every once in awhile to record my acoustic and then transfer that... Anyone else do that? Or am I an odd nut? I know I'm an odd nut, so that question is rhetorical.... :D

I was screwing around with my guitar this afternoon, and started playing this AC/DC type riff that turned into an AC/DC type song. Next thing you know, 30 minutes go by and I've recorded 8 tracks. It's just a throwaway, so I am not really looking for mix critiques. I was just having a blast...

It used to be, way back when, that Tascam was the leader as far as multitrack porta-studios went. With Fostex in their wake... Everything I heard back then was Tascam is the best, Fostex is good but it ain't Tascam. It seems to me that the digital era has sort of levelled the playing field, and...

Please give me some feedback. I know that this is a topic that has been covered before, and probably better, I just want to know how to do some improvement: I left home at 16 years old With a chip on my shoulder and something to prove I thought I knew it all back then And there were no limits...

I finished my collab with MadAudio. His lead guitar put the icing on the cake. Here is a preliminary mix. Please listen and let me know what needs tweeking. I want to put this one to bed so that I can finally call my year old project finished and move on to bigger and better things...

I just got her about a week ago, went through and maximized XP for recording, but I noticed that every time I log on, in My Documents folder are two text files that say D2DCmdlog, and they are blank. What the hell is this, and how do I make it go away? Sorry to sound like a total newb, but...

I wrote this just a little while ago, here is the first draft so that I can get some feedback before I start the rewrite tomorrow (I never rewrite while it's still fresh, because my mind's eye can't see the errors and bad points). Hack away: :D Gary was a loser trying hard to be a star To...

I am a digital home recording guy. OK, you can slap me, but wait... When I build my studio in the next year or so, I want to either do it all analog or some sort of hybred of both, but leaning more toward analog in the mastering, mixing side. I know very little about analog, and web research is...

I've been here since last October, and I have to say that I've learned so much from the many members of this awesome community. But maybe I've learned too much. I wrote a song about my daughter, recorded it, then forgot about it. I tried to reproduce it, using my pc to mix, and my mr8 to...