Best magazine?

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Anyone read any recording or home recording magazines that you'd recommend?
 
Computer Music, Future Music, and Music Tech are all regulars of mine...bit pricey on this side of the atlantic but always great freebies/samples with them
 
BenignVanilla said:
Anyone read any recording or home recording magazines that you'd recommend?
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I'd honestly have a hard time recommending any of them, as they tend to be rife with questionable information. But of the bunch, the only ones I'd consider good enough often enough to be worthy of consideration would be:

- "Sound On Sound" for it's how-to and basic eduction, but stay away from their product reviews,

- "Mix" for keeping a pulse on the trends in top-shelf/prosumer/pro home studio construction and work, and probably the only relatively trustworthy product reviews in any publication,

- "Recording" gets an also-ran mention for basic how-to stuff. Not bad, but it's tends to suffer a bit more than the above from the common ailment of most magazines in the field - not the best editorial QA on it's tech info.

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DM1 said:
Out of curiosity, why do you say that? Are their reviews misleading? Or just not very helpful?

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There's a great song by the Police called "Too much information" that has these lines;
"Too much information going through my brain
too much information and it's driving me insane !".:eek:

There are magazines, books, DVDs and so so so so so many on line forums, advice centres etc. And for every one opinion/practice, there's someone that disagrees and has good reasons for doing so. The problem of the "no rules" dictum is that......there are no rules !! Soooo.....Read, listen, experiment, argue, learn, laugh and do ! Actually, it's not really a problem. It's a liberation.
 
SouthSIDE Glen said:
I'd honestly have a hard time recommending any of them, as they tend to be rife with questionable information. But of the bunch, the only ones I'd consider good enough often enough to be worthy of consideration would be:

- "Sound On Sound" for it's how-to and basic eduction, but stay away from their product reviews,

- "Mix" for keeping a pulse on the trends in top-shelf/prosumer/pro home studio construction and work, and probably the only relatively trustworthy product reviews in any publication,

- "Recording" gets an also-ran mention for basic how-to stuff. Not bad, but it's tends to suffer a bit more than the above from the common ailment of most magazines in the field - not the best editorial QA on it's tech info.

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I agree wholeheartedly but for the most part I read them for the same reason I read playboy and penthouse for the pictures and the jokes.
 
kcearl said:
Computer Music, Future Music, and Music Tech are all regulars of mine...bit pricey on this side of the atlantic but always great freebies/samples with them
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Same here. Although they have lately deteriorated into one giant advertisement for stuff that promises to make you sound like ... (insert some big name here).

Music Tech in particular used to have some really cool articles in the past.

I still enjoy Sound on Sound, but wish they'd bring back some of the early "Synth Secrets" type stuff.
 
Playboy??!?! Any small iota of cred that Playboy still had went out the window the day they decided to go with Marge Simpson instead of Lois Griffin.

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SouthSIDE Glen said:
Playboy??!?! Any small iota of cred that Playboy still had went out the window the day they decided to go with Marge Simpson instead of Lois Griffin.

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They should of had them both share the article maybe a little hugging a little.........
 
TapeOp is OK because it is free. I like reading more about the analog equipment and most maggs are geared to digital because a lot of people use that format.
 
I've tried a bunch in the past. The only one I still get is Tape Op. You can learn more from their interviews than you can from all the other mags.
 
sound on sound here, as far as the reviews, they used to be one of the only ones that wouldn't be all flower and roses to get ad dollars, but in these times they seems to be trending with others but not always.
 
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