best mic for GATHERING DUST?

[tonejunkee]

How should I breathe? I want a deeper, fuller breath...............

Should I upgrade my lungs?

Will a $500 pen cure wrighters block?

Will a Neumann U470864 make me not suck as bad?

It will make you sound twice as bad as you sound now


Your motivation sucks and you cant even finish ONE FUCKING SONG without hallucinating about pro gear and drueling over the false promise of stardom. NOTE TO SELF - music is invisible and non-material - Sgt Pepper was recorded on an old-ass 4-trak. Gear will not improve your music, but knowledge will - I bet that 90% of you(us) are not using your gear to the fullest. YOU'VE GOT TO WORK HARDER THAN YOU EVER HAVE BEFORE if you are going to engineer AND perform. Dont get caught in the web of going back and forth either, IT WILL NOT WORK. The mentality of performing is light years away from the mentality of engineering. Get your settings down BEFORE you perform. BE SOBER while doing this, dont settle for an OK sound............tweak that shit until you IMPRESS YOURSELF. Spend as much time as you see fit to get the best levels/sweet spots/sound THEN when its all good, walk away...forget about it. Then when inspiration stikes, hit it hard like a storm...LET IT ALL OUT. I like the idea of improvising a whole album(shrooms may help for this) this is a great way of letting the ideas flow without trying to judge them.

later

 

[JuSumPilgrim]

Junkee, I dont know about you but everybody I know developed their "sound" over years of tweaking not in a week of sitting at a board and guessing at what sounds good. Good sound is appropriate sound which is situational not terminal. I agree with you though, more time needs to be spent on writing and performing than on cables and converters unless your career in music begins and ends with engineering. A point, seemingly lost on these bulletin boards.

 

[chesterfield]

Good points, and I agree. However, there are relatively few places to get good (comercially) unbiased info on gear and this is one of them. Most people asking gear questions here are on a relatively limited budget; otherwisw they would go to Guitar Satan, plunk down the Visa and buy the most expensive stuff. Learn by trial and error, you waste your time ( although you tend remember the lesson learned). purchase by trial and error, you waste your money. I guess most folks have more time than money. Anyway, I've learned a lot about both gear and recording here; enough to know how much more I have to learn.