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Hixie you're a douchebag:D I've heard all kinds of different things about the gear they use. I've seen a slew of different marshall, fender, and mesa amps on their stage. And, no doubt, various boutique and mass produced pedals. Big help, right? I did read recently that some of their...

That is EXACTLY what I'm looking for. I noticed that low frequencies eat up all my headroom during mixdowns, but I hadn't made the connection that they'd do the same at the tracking stage. Here's to cleaner, hotter signals in my future! Thanks for the excellent advice!

The term "Overprducing" is probably pretty inarticulate anyway you look at it. But are we, because we know the division of labor between producer and engineer and whatnot, splitting hairs? I think I agree with the idea of inappropriate production. Maybe it refers to a mismatch between...

How 'bout this question: When I'm tracking individual instruments, I usually take my time and, at least, think I'm getting the sound I want. However, when mixing time comes, I've found that I do quite a lot of cut eq on most instruments. I don't so much do it as a cure for a poorly recorded...

Those comments play very nicely into the debate about overproducing, dontcha think? Kinda like Parsons' definition of overproduction?

If you're going to get xlr-1/4" cables, it may be in your best interest to make sure you buy cable that's balanced at both ends. The 1/4" is called TRS which stands for tip-ring sleeve. It's been my experience that they're a little harder to find than xlr-xlr, but you should be able to find...

Recently Gidge has suggested looking into a studio monkey. Here's another situation where one of those little fellas can be indespensible. As a one man operation, you're already doing just about all you can. Of course you can't move and play at the same time. Also, in a one room operation...

I like Nessbass's definition. I generally use the term to describe pop music that has an artificial sound to it. Humor me while I try to decribe it. It's an inaccessible sound, kind of like the package is too tight. You can hear it coming out of the speakers but its like it never really...

By looking around, you can usually find some of the smaller Fender tube amps for $350-500. I have a Deluxe Reverb II that I snagged for $325. Great amp! I think Randall makes some low watt tube amps that may be more along the lines of your marshall. Since I don't think I've ever read a...

Did I post in this thread or the other? Anyway, the point of my initial post was somewhat similar to what Rats is saying. The industry has to change. At this time when the companies are not on the leading edge of that change, there are possibilties for greater fundamental change. I...

I've often thought about doing that. I would add to that a video feed from a camcorder set to wide angle in a corner of the live room to a tv in the control room. It'd be like the wizard of Oz!

Record companies made empty promises for years that CD's would eventually drop in price as the medium became more prevalent and the manufacturing process more efficient. They haven't lived up to that promise--in fact, prices have gone up! Has the artist's cut increased proportionately...

Studio Don't : If your underage, don't try to get the engineer to buy you beer. Since we're starting to veer into live sound talk... A coupla weeks ago, some friends and I threw together a band for some big battle of the bands at the local college. It turned out to be a real amatuer affair...

Cool Edit has one. I have a shareware of CE 96-- I don't doubt that CEPro has a better one, but I don't know what's enabled and disabled in the shareware version. Incidently, regardless of the accuracy of the analyzer, I've found that checking and thinking in terms of where in the frequency...

My Jap Strat is the second electric guitar I've owned. I've had it for about 10 years now and haven't played anything I like better. It's the contemporary series-22 frets, fender locking trem, 3-singles. These things go pretty cheap when you can find em. Like $175-300. Great deal!

Rats: It's interesting that you included Thurston Moore on your list. I used to think that he was the creative center of Sonic Youth. Having seen the band live a few times, I'm generally left with the feeling that Renaldo/Shelley are the real band with husband and wife pair of goofs making...

Again, no pro here. But here's how I usually do it. I play a scratch guitar to a click track, maybe with a vocal. I've only been playing drums for about 3 years so I still need the beat to be musical in order to get it right. I can't play drums to a click track, but I can play drums to a...

Bruce: I thought of a question regarding all this compression. Do you think that the need for bit depth at the input conversion is as much to blame as the desire for hot output in overcompressed new recordings? Seems like squashing the input is going to have some effect on the overall mix at...

Hey thanks for replying. The folks from Akai did respond telling me that nearly any SCSI would work. I would just need an adaptor. I wasn't sure if it was that simple. Good enough! I really like the machine. I find it so easy to use and it sounds great. I'm currently using the onboard...

Fuzion: I don't really know why, perhaps its the less than stellar electronics in the tascam porta's, but mixing 4 tracks to computer and sending them back onto another tape either as mono or stereo has always managed to sound more clear and defined to me than an internal bounce. Its not so...