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Hey all: Well, I'm finally moving on to recording into the dang soundcard (I swore I'd never do it), so I'm going to let the little red guy go. It's in perfect condition, comes with the CF card, the manual, box, etc. I've only had it a few months, and I take very good care of my stuff - I quit...

So, I;ve only found one comment on the new upgrade - apparantly it adds a feature that lets you do away with "delete unused". Anyone else found anything else that is added by the upgrade? I can't find a single mention of its features on the Fostex site - not even in their support forum. And...

So recently I finally got together the bread to upgrade from my piece of shit generic C-Series dog-ass pawnshop electric guitar I've been whanging on for years. I've spent many an hour trolling through the forum here, learning a great deal about you good people (and occasionally learning *from*...

Hey folks: I just traded in a Boss 4-track for the mr-8, since it was the only one I could find for under $500 that recorded in uncompressed audio. Everything seems dandy, except that there is this constant, skittering, static-like noise that will not go away when recording. I'm satisfied it's...

Okay - now about half the time I go there I get the infamous "do you want to download the GATOR spyware componants" message. And today when I went to someone's music page, I got about 20 pop-ups and had my homepage reset. My patience with this shit is at an end. And so are the days when I...

Long title - short song. Lemme know where I went astray, eh? Thanks, Chris www.venusburning.com/chris/I'm_Drunk_But_What_I_Say_Is_True.mp3

Well, after my last fiasco of a song (took me 2 weeks to mix it and I never did get it right) I threw up the mic and did this whole thing - tracking, mixing, etc. in about 4 hours total, which is a freakin' world record for me. Plus, on this one I FINALLY got lucky and got a bass sound I'm...

So, I sent Sluice the basic rhythm track for this song and told him to play "like your hair's on fire". He totally delivered, as I think you'll agree. I was going for sort of a trashy garage rock sound on this, and I knew I could do the guitar & it might work out okay, but what I REALLY wanted...

Well, this is just a little bit of goof I thought I'd share. I been mixing and recording like a madman lately, so what do I do to take a break? Record something else.:) I didn't put anywhere near as much time into this as I usually do, but I kinda got a kick out of it, and since there's a bunch...

Here's another salvage job I need some help with. This is a tune I recorded right when I first started a year and a half ago or so and I did a lot of things wrong. Anyway, I've tried to fix what I could, so let me know if this reeks of incompetence or what. I have a much better mic now (this...

Well, I've been doing all this messing around lately with vocal effects and weird soundscapes, so I took a break and went back to the old "guitar/harp/vox" thing. I'll tell ya right up front this is pretty much the only straight ahead love song I've ever written (I always dug Randy Newman's...

Well, I got laid off yet again, so - as usual - my music output goes way up. 3 songs in 2 days. Whoopee! I'm broke and prolific... Here's an odd little one for you to rip to shreds, laughing gleefully as you do it. I'm doing some experimenting with micing techniques, and other things - so let...

Okay, it's kind of quiet around here, what with the lack of trolls and no one arguing about anything, and for chrissake it's been at least a week since Chris Harris posted a tune by his daughter...:) Anyway, a couple people (me included) recently posted some old cassette 4-track recordings and...

Well, once in awhile a man's gotta hitch himself up, sing in a higher octave and do some shamelessly goopy love song, so... Of course, I played it for my lady, saying "here's that song I was writing about you" and she listened and said "I love it, but where was I in there?". Um... Anyway...

Hey guys: I've been using the Boss Br532 for some time, which records in a compressed 16/44.1 format. I've been eyeing the Mr8, as it appears to be the only budget digital recorder that doesn't compress the audio. So what I'm wondering is: anyone here who has gone from a BR532 (or some other...

Okay, I should probably wait till I've had some sleep to post this, but to heck with it - the clinic seems kinda slow right now. I had fun with this one. But I need feedback on the sonics. "Dead Man's Jones" www.venusburning.com/chris/Dead_Man's_Jones.mp3 Chris

Some of y'all may remember this song from awhile ago. I've been going through some old tunes and applying some of my current-day skills to the mixing of them (not to say I have so many skills now - just that compared to, say, a YEAR ago... geez, those mixes sound like crap...) ANYWAY, I just...

Well, dobro AND all the Ralph Stanley and Mahalia Jackson I've been listening to lately. Is it idiotic for an atheist to love gospel music so much? But really, it wouldn't have occured to me to try this without hearing "fidel". So dobro can get the blame for my raggedy-ass unadorned voice...

Well, this here's an old one, recorded on a Tascam Portastudio with a radio shack mic years before I'd ever even heard of digital recording (or sound quality). I've been trying to polish it up as sort of a restoration exercise and I could really use some new ears. I don't want the gear...

So, I spent half a day tracking this tune with bass, drums, guitars, etc. and then afterwards, just for the hell of it, sat down and did a solo acoustic take of the same song, and wouldn't you know I ended up ditching the "full band" version altogether. The singing's a little rough I think...