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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...

Okay, here's an old one from my, uh, less stable days, that I just re-recorded. I seem to recall that any guitar effects used while tracking were allowed. Maybe I'm remembering wrong, in which case I cheated.:) Lots of experimenting with natural reverb on this one - although it still sounds...

Okay, I haven't posted an original in a long time. Here's a kind of surrealistic blues, um... *thing*. http://www.venusburning.com/chris/December_Rolls_Around.mp3 I've given up trying to write songs with verse and choruses and bridges, that tell stories and entertain people and make them...

You know, I read a lot of critiques that are prefaced with "I'm listening on cheap cans" or "I'm listening on crappy PC speakers," etc. (I've done this too, by the way - late at night I have to use headphones a lot of times) and it occurs to me that really, I wonder whether our input is really...

Well, here's my virgin foray into recording someone besides me. Damn, it was fun too. I'm tired as hell of *my* rusty old voice. So, lay it on me, folks. Be mean. I can take it. It's the jazz tune "Cry Me A River". I'm doing everything except singing...

Hey all: I've been so wrapped up with life lately I've barely had any time to record (or sit at the computer) but I managed to whip one out in a few hours today. As always, any comments appreciated. If you listen *very* closely you can hear a car slamming into another car outside my house in...

And another 180 degree shift from my last submission... This is just a simple piano/voice tune. And the first done with my new preamp. The main issue in this one was getting the vocal sound right, since the piano is very spare. Whaddya think...

Well, I was feeling like my mixes were consistantly coming up short of what I was aiming for so I took a week and did some obsessive reading and experimenting with EQ and, especially, dithering, the specifics of which had always confused me, but - it turns out - makes a HUGE difference in the...

Okay, I did a bunch of experimenting on this one in terms of "space". I was also simultanously experimenting with "field recording" (much of this was tracked in odd places while it was raining out). I was going for more of a layered stereo field than my usual "pan a few things left and right"...

Honestly, it *does* sound better with the lights off. Or maybe I've just been in front of the mixer for too long. Anyway, I'd appreciate any thoughts. Anyone who can identify the snatch of song that I sampled, looped and otherwise defiled for the centerpiece of this one gets a free pornsite...

Well, I've been having all sorts of problems with this one. Starting with the fact that I got sick in the middle of it and recorded the vocals when my voice was even more thrashed than usual. Plus, mixing when your head is stuffed up is sort of an excercise in insanity. Anyway, I need some...

Okay, to go in a totally different direction than my last submission... This one's been remixed a number of times. I'd appreciate y'all's take on it. It's at: http://www.venusburning.com/chris/top_down.mp3 OR: For those with dial-ups (or anyone who'd just prefer a faster - albeit...

Hey all: This song isn't exactly hip-hop (I'm not sure what the hell it is, actually) , but I'd still be real interested in getting some feedback from folks here. Most of my "songwriter" friends aren't too much into stuff that isn't either acoustic or rock n' roll-type stuff & this one doesn't...

Hey all: Wow, *finally* I've found a song critique area where people are both posting good stuff *and* making constructive comments. Glad to be here and looking forward to hearing everyone's songs. Anyway, here's a recent one of mine (I promise to get some comments out to others right away)...