Lost Horizon - Awakening The World
This has been my favourite CD since 2001, the year of it's release. Nearly a decade later, it still blows my freakin' mind every time I listen to it, which is fairly often. Everything on it is perfect. Of course, it helps that I love power metal.
Also, I...
Yes, it's a very good thing in terms of product consistency, but that wasn't my point. Considering how stoned I was when I made it, I guess it's okay if anyone missed it.
Anyway, I'm sober now. I've been thinking that whether a CD sounds good or bad doesn't even matter to the average...
When I made my very first 4-track tape, I needed a drum track; a rock backbeat. I had no drums, no drum machine, anything like that. I did however have a Super NES with Mario Paint. I ran a cord from my TV's headphone jack to the line in on my TASCAM Porta, with my Nintendo drum track...
I mostly use the line out on an old Digitech RP300. Sometimes I'll mic, and sometimes I'll mix them both. But mostly the line out because I don't like my mics much.
I too have an integrated sound card (16-bit); it works, but I wouldn't mind upgrading to something better someday. I have a mixer plugged into the line-in jack on the card. I've heard that plugging a mic into the mic input on a computer is not a good idea for recording, and in my own...
I recently had a similar issue, but I didn't need to format it in a separate machine or use an enclosure; I just popped in my Windows* install disc, and wrote a partition that fills the entire HDD. After rebooting into Windows, I just formatted the drive and and it was ready to rock.
*Or the...
CDs are cheap, disposable junk; easy to replace. Every copy of a CD release sounds the same. The sound of each copy (of the same recording) on vinyl develops it's own charisma after a while. CDs just get unplayable scratches that hurt your ears, none of that sweet mojo you get from a...
homerecording.com is the internet's best resource for historical info. I always thought it was funny that Mr. Bean had a record player in his Mini, but now I know it's not so unusual afterall. I should get one for my Grand Caravan, just to remind me to take it easy on the speed bumps.
Yeah, I'm finding more and more that I really hate the sound of those older CDs (sometimes I think they did it on purpose just to sell us those hyped-up digitally remastered versions [with or without crappy bonus tracks] years later). Fortunately I have some of the same albums on vinyl, and if...