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I plugged my DP-01FX into an outlet to to do some recording. I noticed a strange static noise any time I would pull my finger up from a button (or anywhere on the unit for that matter). You could see that the noise was causing the meters to jump so it wasn't something like faulty headphones. I...

I whole heartedly agree. Perfect example: Fat Possum Records' blues albums (haven't listened to much of their other artists so can't comment) The albums aren't sonically the best (just turn up Easy Rider by Scott Dunbar and enjoy that hiss and listen to that foot stomping) but for what they...

Mics being out of phase is bad. Boosting too much on the EQ will give you lots of noise. Flutter echoes are intolerable. But is there any place where people new to recording can hear examples of most of these common mistakes?

Wow, the drums are really distorted on My Girl. It's especially noticeable on the snare rolls.

Maybe I'm missing something, but who exactly is cutting prices?

That makes the most sense. It was more or less at the front of the stage where the lead singers were, it was just way off to the side. Thanks!

"Steely Dan's not one person? We don't get French benefits?" Anyone seen that commercial?

It definitely resembles a parabolic microphone, but it wasn't. Or if it was, it was home made. :) Oh well, maybe I'll come across another some day and actually get to see it up close.

It definitely wasn't a rototom. There was only one, and it was mounted about 6 feet in the air on a mic stand. No one played it. In fact, no one touched it the whole time before, during or after the show. I initially thought it was some sort of weird microphone. Imagine a drum head mounted...

Wow, here's a whole buncha calculators to use! If you need to find the frequencies listed above, this calculator let's you choose your coeffecients: http://www.sengpielaudio.com/calculator-RT60.htm Main page: http://www.sengpielaudio.com/Calculations03.htm

D'oh! The math I gave you is from a book I have. I just found the chapter posted online with some coeffecients that can hopefully help you. Anyway, click here and have a read: http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/sep98/articles/acoustic_3.html This is part of a 5 part series on Practical...

I think you need to analyze what frequencies are gonne be problematic before you start installing any traps. Check out your room's dimensions and find your T60 for the frequencies of 125Hz, 250Hz, 500Hz, 1kHz, 2kHz, and 4kHz. T60=0.05v/ST x Aave T60 is the reverb time in second, V is the...

Last night I was at a 311 show and I noticed a peculiar thing on stage right. It looked like snare drum sized head placed vertically on a mic stand. Mounted in the center of this was a clear plexiglass tube about 18 inches long with what looked like 1/2 inch wide aluminum tape wrapped around it...

There are a few waveform views in Audacity that have never made sense to me and I can't find very much info on the interent about them. These views would be Spectrum and Pitch EAC. How does one read these? Also, is there an effctive way to use the Plot Spectrum function to aid in anything like...

At the beginning of Albert King's "Born Under A Bad Sign" from the album Wednesday Night in San Francisco, you can hear the reverb springs in the amp. I know when I accidentally knock my amp with the reverb turned up it makes this same noise.

WWWD...What Would Walter Do? I was thinking about this thread ealier and I came to the following analogy: In a nutshell, Walter Sear thinks recording stuff at home is bad and unprofessional sounding. I think this can directly correlate to a lot of those home improvement shows, and to all of...

I remember reading his Tape Op interview when it first came out. After reading that article again I can only say this guy seems like a sour old man. It seems like he's pissed that his income has been reduced by amateurs who can't record things as good as him. He'd be right about one thing; I...

Pinkerton My favorite sounding album of all time is Weezer's Pinkerton. About 6 years ago I got really into Weezer (no, I'm not emo!) and when I heard Pinkerton compared to the Blue album, it just blew me away. I've sinced moved away from Weezer quite a bit but I still strive to get a...

Yeah it qualifies! This is the stuff I wanna hear about. It's these things that make newcomers like myself feel better about our home recordings. :)

After posting in another thread about hearing snare rattle in a Jimi Hendrix song and listening to my less than average home recordings, I feel the need to put others down to feel good, so...are there any major label recordings that have major screw ups in them? For example the above mentioned...