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Don't be surprised it it ends up on some Youtube video with (former) Speaker of The House Dennis Hastert footage.

I can't speak to musician's gear, but in my little world of radio show/audiobook work, the newer stuff is as good or better and cheaper than 10 years ago. Maybe getting a whole new kit some time from now will be OK. And, like digital cameras and computers, what you have may drop in value...

I only do audio for radio shows and audiobooks, so my advice may not be right. In my photography classes, I see people buying the high priced bodies and the cheaper lenses. It should be the other way around, as the lenses may be used for 10 years but the bodies change and improve often. So, I...

In my experience, typical desktop PCs wont cut it. You need separate memory for video, not shared with the O/S. I bought a use digital workstation that was for CAD-CAM and it was OK.

So why is Google warning that this site is full of malware? Must be some links someone is posting!

I write non-fiction books and how to's but not lyrics. My humble opinion is that you are trying so say too much in one song. Look at some of the classic and contemporary religious music and see what sticks in your head, and can be sung by others easily. Praise lyrics and what I might call...

You might want to listen to these various renderings of another fairly new song, "The Salvation Poem." Regarding the FIRST link: I do some media work for The Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Wisconsin and the author of the song asked a talented priest he knows to record it in the acoustically...

This is more a history lesson than much else. When I was doing digital audio recording for radio in the mid-90's there was a problem with standard "business class" hard drives. They did a "thermal re-calibration" of the writing head about every 7 minutes. Not a problem with saving a document...

When you start doing VIDEO editing, you may find you need a better video card.

Am I the only one who haunts pawn shops for gear? I find tons of mics, etc.

tutorials I've made part of my living for the past 20 years doing tutorials for new computer and camera users. The problem with experts is that they forget what it is like to be a true beginner. As one fellow told me "I've bought 3 books on running my computer and they all begin on Chapter...

Sorry that your link is down. As far as I know, both in Norway and Japan there is a strong cultural trend towards vocal music. I've heard some outstanding Japanese vocalists. For encouragement, listen to Ricky Nelson's "Garden Party" single and recall his words, something like "If you can't...

Being just a dumb radio guy producing weekly prerecorded broadcast shows, I've used my (now aging) iPad2 for some interviews. In its most abstract sense, an iPad with something like Twisted Wave is just another digital recorder, but more expensive and needing adapters to work. My Zoom recorder...

I'm just a dumb radio guy who never records music, but I do use Audition. Have you checked Windows audio control from the control panel? Every once in a while it goes wonky and you have to go into it and adjust levels. That's one reason for my voicework I prefer using digital recorders (Zoom...

That sounds like good advice! Off topic: I wonder how many teen bands write a song with the phrase, "NIGHT time is the RIGHT time" and think it is original? Hah-hah.

Edit: I may have found the flaw in my advice when I read (elsewhere on this forum), "You have to be careful buying usb mixers; some only send the stereo main outs (2-tracks) to the computer. You have to read the specs and get an interface that send individual channels to the computer." Again...

First, note I am NOT a musician or one who records music! I am a radio guy who has recorded a dozen or so audiobooks and also done a nationally syndicated computer show in the past, and currently a weekly show for -of all things- the local branch of The Catholic Church! I did record and master...

I do mostly voicework and 30 and 60 spots with simple audio BG under them as well as a weekly recorded talk show. But each year I do a one-hour "Christmas at the Shrine" music show highlighting the 2,0000 pipe organ at the (26 million dollar!) Shrine Church at the Shrine of Our Lady of...

Don't know your local or town size, but you may have to donate some time to unlikely clients: church choirs for a Christmas CD Polka Bands, community (school) groups. Get established that you can create a good "sound" that works well on (gasp!) CDs, iTunes, etc. All these people have kids or...

No ac, try booting with a "live" Linux CD If you are trying hooking up to others PCs to see if they can read the files, try going to distrowatch.com and find a Linux distro ISO that burns to a CD (or DVD). Boot to your CD/DVD drive and it will run a totally non-Windows OS fully in Memory. I...