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This weekend I had to make a snake that went from the balanced XLR outs of a board I was borrowing to the unbalanced RCA inputs of my recording deck. I was unsure what to do with pin 3 (cold or -) from the XLR side. Some said to just leave it, some said you had to tie it to the shield...

Hey Cypher... Any chance of posting a similar side-by-side mp3 comparison on some vocals? It was VERY helpful. CT

>I just think she'd be a stripper at Billy Bob's Country Hideaway if she didn't meet Kurt Cobain. I don't disagree, but for different reasons than you probably expect. I think ANYONE who gets signed basically has to "know someone". Sheer raw talent has almost nothing to do with it. I could...

Hey Hano, (And now for a shameless plug!) There's a brief layman's explanation of mic preamps near the bottom of this article: http://www.hotterthankarl.com/CharlesThomas/guitar_tips.htm CT [This message has been edited by CharlesThomas (edited 06-21-2000).]

>I believe they use a reverse reverb That was what I was going to bring up. There's definitely reverse reverb on the line "Wild Side" with some 400ms or so echo for afterward. I'm not sure how one does reverse reverb when one isn't using reel-to-reel. Before we'd just flip the reel over and...

Only if you believe that shaving a Poodle makes it a rat. :D CT

>If I was CEO of her label, I'd dump that whiney bitch. If you were the CEO of her label, you'd be a businessman, not a musician. As such, you'd realize that with all this controversy (negative or not), she's an even more valuable commodity than she was previously, and as she stands to make...

>I've heard all about the internet being the future.... We'll see about it in the FUTURE but as of now. A major label is the way to go and even then your no success story untill the label sees money out of you. If not your yesterdays news. If you want to compare, for every 1000 bands that get...

>They just want to be famous and have mobs of girls getting naked and blowing them backstage. Oh, that part is easy. Never needed a record contract for that! Just grow your hair long and get onstage. If you can't get laid at that point, your problem probably isn't anything that a record...

>Hey, does Tim Woodworth record using computers and subsequent software,or does he use an outboard mixer,gear etc.? Actually he works with NIN as a live sound engineer. As far as I know, working on our project is the only studio work he's done (I could be mistaken). I brought him in on the...

Just my opinion: I can't understand why ANYONE would want a recording contract. The deals offered to first-time artists are only one step removed from slavery. They give you no money, have artistic control over you, and own your songs. You'll also have to pay back the advance they give you...

>What is a D-160 deck? It's a 16-track hard disk recorder made by Fostex. http://www.fostex.com/usa-index.html >what software do you do this stuff in? Umm... I don't use any software except for the built-in features of the D-160. I'm still pretty old-fashioned in my studio. I even mix...

So, for the first time I recorded a demo with my new D-160 deck by slaving my drum machine to the built-in MIDI clock of the deck. WOW! What a very cool thing that is. The drum machine synchs its tempo and performance to the D-160 and starts playing automatically at the same beat and measure...

>But the best song of the bunch, by far, was "Walk The Line". That song totally rawks, dude! It has a much better groove than the rest of the songs, and the vocals far outshine the others. Heh. Musical tastes, I guess. I thought the guitars on "Walk the line" all sounded kinda "fake" and thin...

Wow. Really, really loved it! EXCELLENT guitar tone, and I liked the Alice-In-Chains kinda sound of the vocal/bg vocal combo. Great energy, great recording, great song. Dig it! CT

A pretty effective establishment and use of mood. Kinda dark and hypnotic. Sounds European to me. I feel like the first guitar that comes in could be slightly brighter. I like the tremolo effect on the guitar. I agree that the vocals seem to have some intonation issues, but oddly enough...

As for lyrics I've written... that's tough. I happen to write really personal stuff, so what's meaningful to me may not connect with someone else. But I suppose that's true of any lyric. Here are a few lines I'm proud of: "You're holding yourself out as an example Of how you think everyone...

I think that's the thing that I hate MOST about the new kiddy-band craze. They lyrics are SO awful. Just as trite and obvious as they could be. There is actually a Bacstreet or N'Sync (who can tell 'em apart?) song that says... literally: "Girl, I'm never gonna treat you bad Cuz I never...

DaveO: You reminded me of something that I was planning on putting in the article but forgot about (copying repeated sections into a new pattern and doing some variations to avoid things sounding too much the same). I'll put it in the "helpful tips section". As for the air drumming, I...

Mutt: Yeah, I know. "Low" "High" and then the fixed velocity ones. "Low" and "High" both require me to beat the living crap out of the pads (seriously). Perhaps it's just my particular SR-16. I've had other makes and models with the same problem, tho', so that's why I mentioned it in the...