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I can't imagine it would be any better than the pres in your Firepod, if even as good. The AudioBuddy does have an issue with not providing a full 48 volts to the mic when you use phantom power. I have one and I use it when I am recording our band when I run out of other mic preamps in. It...

I agree with the "go digital and commit to making it sound great" theory, but it takes work. I have some old 4 track sessions done on a Teac 3340 that sound surprisingly good because of the tape saturation. My Pbass recorded directly into the machine has a great tone that I have not been able...

Oh, we're including the cost of the instruments too??!! Aye, caramba, I am at about $6,000 without them and I guess about $10,000 with them. If I added in every guitar and bass I ever bought and then let go, we'd be talkin' enough to finance a 401k plan!! bilco

I got a used Mbox 1 just like you, except mine was on Craigslist. It came without the software. I paid the $75 to download PT LE 7 and then I went ahead and paid to have them send the CD as well. I recommend spending the $75. It is well worth it and the Mbox with PT LE 7 is a very solid...

I added it up in my head really fast and I end up with about $6,000 worth of stuff I've bought or rented over the last 7 years, a lot of which I either don't have or just don't use anymore. I don't use half this stuff most the time. The Digi001 doesn't get used at all anymore and the Digi002...

I usually hear the whole song in my head, harmonies and all, even signature licks, but not the solos. I am a songwriter first, bass player second and I can play pretty good acoustic guitar and do a passable job on lead vocal, although I am a much better harmony singer than a lead singer. I...

I'll vote. I don't know about radio worthy, but I think Live the Life Comin' Back a Man Distance of Our Hearts are the strongest lyrically, best use of imagery, interesting story line, point of view. But I've been doin' this for 37 years and I'm not makin' a living off of it yet, so take...

For story songs start paying attention to people's stories at bars, work, wherever you are? Ask couples how they met, ask vets about their war stories. You do need to find out what your family did not like about it. Usually families tend to be supportive and not a very objective audience...

OK, I don't want to pass myself off as an authority on this stuff, but when I look at my Digi002 Rack: Inputs 5-8 - Our only choice here is between a +4 line level input and a -10 line level input, which tells me that there is not anything but a dedicated line input there. The RNP outputs +4...

That's true if you're using the XLR inputs 1-4, but not the line inputs 5-8. I have an RNP and a Digi002 Rack. I have not had a lot of time to experiment with it yet to tell the truth, especially on vocals. I did notice that I like my Pbass a lot more when I put it through the RNP and then...

I really struggle with this and I definitely have mixed emotions about it. I don't like hearing myself recorded and I really don't like to sing lead at gigs as much as I like singing harmony. That being said, I don't think any of the demo singers who have recorded my songs get the emotion of...

I can be grabbed by any of these things and consider the song to be good to great: *Riff - Boys of Summer, Don't Fear the Reaper, just about any Stones song, Paranoid *Great Lyrics - City of New Orleans, Good Old Boys Like Me, Free Man In Paris, New York State of Mind, Old Coyote Town *Melody -...

I am self-taught, but I am sure that lessons would help..... to lazy...... I learned to croak out the songs I was writing in high school and as the songwriting progressed, my singing did too. I would call myself a singer/songwriter, but I would not ever define myself as a real "singer." The...

If you can maintain the 5-6 songs per year and they are keepers, you are doing great. Don't throw the others away though; you never know when a line or a melody from one of them will end up being used somewhere else. I've got snippets of ideas written on cocktail napkins from 1973! I have...

Get out and play some open mics and maybe book a 1-2 hour gig or two. There is nothing like doing something live to reinforce what works and what doesn't work. At some point the guitar part becomes kind of an auto pilot kind of thing and you can concentrate on getting the emotion of the song...

You're welcome; just let me know if you want the files. bilco

Harvey, I know you asked the question a long time ago, but I think that thread will never outlive its purpose. I have not come close to memorizing it all, even though I have printed big chunks of it out for quick reference. I say keep it around if you are still wondering all these years later...

Thanks for sharing! That's cool funky acoustic stuff, really percussive. I think your material could really play well on the house concert circuit. On the writer's block, I had a song come to me today while I was in the shower and I worked on it for about an hour before I had to leave for a...

Looking forward to reading Harvey's report. I'm always glad to see his opinion on gear that doesn't cost an arm and a leg. Thanks to him, I got an RNP and discovered that the SM57 into the RNP on my voice sounds great. My Pbass through a Sansamp and then into the RNP is the best sound I...

The files are way to big to email..... If you really insist on having this, PM me with your address and I will burn you a CD. I have all of the original files around here somewhere for the Win98 and the Mac OS9 versions. I have to warn you, the Win98 version is really picky about what PCs it...