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Absolutely. That's when you can get into really creative/textural stuff. At that point it's more about creating "textures" and "layers" and sculpting the interaction of the various layers of "band" than trying to get shit that won't "gel" to come close to working and playing well with the...

There was a rule on "Usenet" called "Godwinn's Rule" which was that any thread must end when the word "Hitler" comes up. Any thread where you've been beating a dead horse for 6 or more pages really [REALLY] should end. Whaddaya say? Time to give it a portion or what? Photo Cropping courtesy...

Uhhhh... none of the information is relevant... unless you happen to have hired those particular players and are performing that particular song. The hardware doesn't matter nearly as much as the player... machines don't make music... people do.

Yes. My daughter has one from "BOSS"... it makes an audible "click" with an accent on "1" and two different LED's... you can turn off the audible "click" and just look at the pretty lights if you'd like. There are pro's and con's to playing to a click track. First off... if you're not very...

Then "produce". The job of a "producer" is to oversee both the recording budget and the final product that is produced with that budget [sometimes in the other order, but none the less... that's the general job description]. If you are truly "a producer", then do your job. Tell the "engineer"...

Yeah bro... I do that this shit really seriously... probably too seriously but I'll work that out with my therapist. Thanks for the welcome... and yes, my avatar is indeed Albert DeSalvo... see, I live just outside of Boston and I'm kind of [understatement of the year] an asshole... and I know...

Well this train has been hurled from the tracks at an amazing rate of speed... Somehow, I think the Faber College motto applies here: "Knowledge is Good." You should probably just work from that point and move on...

I missed this one before... and, yes!! It is totally spot on... but not for the reason your statement implies. Expensive microphones aren't there to "make your sound", they're there to "capture your sound". YOU have to make the sound for the microphone to capture, not the other way around...

Didn't I read something like that in Tape Op once? I think we're running some 'myth busting software' right now!! ... and for the music theory geeks... IV-I But dude... Robert Johnson hasn't had a hit in years... neither has Mckinley Morganfield... in fact, neither Johnson nor Morganfield have...

It's almost definitely over 20 years old... I remember Sunn making some pretty decent guitar amps but I don't recall ever seeing a mixer from them.

Wow. Where the hell did you find that one? I've never heard of the album "Roadhouse" nor any of the songs listed on the album. I worked on "Tough All Over" [their debut record after HBO started to air "Eddie and the Cruisers" which sold a couple million units and made them an entity]...

This response came up yesterday in the thread "Recreating a classic album???"... and while I was kind of unnecessarily harsh in my original response... it was because it struck a nerve. There are so many myths and so much bullshit that flies around, especially in the "Home Recording" areas that...

With all due respect Rico you haven't got the remotest clue of what the fuck you're talking about. Beggar's Banquet was made in Olympic Studios in London on the second deck made for Olympic by their tech at the time; Dick Swettenham. Dick Swettenham was subsequently bankrolled by Chris...

To be totally off topic for a minute... I was driving home with my family a while ago and had my iPod plugged into the car stereo. Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five's "The Message" came on. Here I am with the wife and daughters with a rap song [albeit a very old rap song] coming out of...

If you can swing it you might want to try to rent something like an Empirical Labs http://empiricallabs.com "FATSO Jr." For what it's worth, I've found that if I add some "warmth" with the "tranny" button engaged it can do some absolutely lovely things to the overheads. The "compression" stuff...

I had a client like that once... I also have a piece of paper at my lawyer's office that prevents me from mentioning who that client might be... it's part of a "nondisclosure agreement" that was part of our divorce proceeding. What I would suggest for the "one man band" scenario is to record...

All horseshit aside... your best friend will be a good "peak limiter". The way to set up a real "peak limiter" [not to be confused with an "RMS limiter"] is to put a tone through the unit and set the threshold for like -.5dbfs. That will save your ass in terms of digital clipping. Now the...

As mentioned... it's entirely dependent on the band. With someone like "The Swinging Steaks" we recorded it all at the same time... if someone needed to do a punch or an overdub we did it on the spot then did whatever vocals needed to be done and moved on. With the CARS it was drummer to a...

If I remember correctly you can turn down a hotplate so it functions as an "amp out direct box"... but I could be wrong about that.

You might want to check out a Palmer PGA-04. This unit will allow you to get the "amp" sound you want to get while enabling you to run the output signal directly into your record while also providing a proper load for your amplifier so you don't blow the output transformer. Other than that...