Home Recording Show?

[cincy_kid]

Not that this is actually going to go anywhere, but if it does, I'll offer my job application as video editor/producer .

hehe, I guess I may be qualified to be the one that holds the prompter cards...

American Mix Idol.

To hell with singers, let's critique on compression settings.

Randy: "Yo dog, it was muddy up front, but by the time you mixed in the bongo's at the end and ran the choir vocals through that toilet paper roll.....bam!......we got a hot one tonight!!"

Paula: "I don't know what just happened, but I loved it!!!"

Simon: "Totally horrible. It was like Guided by Voices engineering a Steely Dan record"

lol, nice...

 

[SouthSIDE Glen]

we've seen it here on this board, no one wants to hear "no, you can't get a good sound from a Soundblaster and a webcam mic, even if it's all hooked up with 12 guage lamp cord."

Unfortunately that doesn't say much about your average home rec'r, does it . This racket does attract a lot of young'uns who think operating a half ton of high end electronics is as easy as operating their PS2.

I'm all for a show that'll disillusion them right back into reality .

Unless anyone here has a DV Cam.... ?

Hey, you put together a business plan that'll show someone with money that this idea can make them even more money so's I can have the financial backing to pay my bills plus, and I'll produce, direct, shoot, and edit the whole thing.

(Notice me not holding my breath. )

G.

 

[chessrock]

Do you realize the ramifications to this? Everybody who sees the show will say "Dang, that doesn't look too difficult. I like music and I hate my current job so, I'm gonna try to make a studio." There's already too many of those guys and too many artists themselves saying they can make their own record cheaper than hiring an engineer and producer and booking time in a real studio.

To the contrary, if done properly, ideally it would steer those people away from it.

Tell it to 'em straight: Do you know what a standing wave is? Do you know how to calculate where they are likely to be, and how to avoid them? Then throw it at them, and don't dumb any of it down. Get in to the physics behind the stuff, and remind them that this is stuff they would have to feel comfortable with if they were ever considering this as more than a hobby. Then maybe cover some of the fun shit about being a contractor, as well as the financial outlook of it (not promising).

Then watch all of the dumbasses stare blakly at the TV screen once they realize they have no fucking clue. Remind the viewer that if they have a hard time keeping up with it all, then they should tune in next week, instead, when you go over how to set up a patch bay.

Once people actually get a clue that there's absolutely no way they can sound proof their basement to where they won't be bothering the neighbors ... and once they start getting a small clue as to why ... then they might start thinking twice about opening up that studio.

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[Dr Biscuits]

Unfortunately that doesn't say much about your average home rec'r, does it . This racket does attract a lot of young'uns who think operating a half ton of high end electronics is as easy as operating their PS2.

I'm all for a show that'll disillusion them right back into reality .

G.

Haha ya, I guess I'm being a bit harsh

But I have no problem with people who are excited about the possiblilties of home recording, and hungry for knowledge... we all started somewhere and I think it's great if someone is so curious about things that they actually try hooking up lamp cord to thier soundcard... lord knows, I've done more Mickey Mouse stuff!

So if there's a market for information hungry people, the same number of people that want to see idiots eating live bugs on NBC or painting a sofa on TLC, then fire up the DV!
(Although we might have to go into a bidding war over the editorial position )!

 

[SRR]

DIY network, had/has I don't know, a show about video recording. The one time I stopped on the channel they we telling people how to record "nice" audio for their video. One example was even a guy singing and playing guitar, they didn't go into any details, but they atleast were telling people to not use the mic built into their camera. They used a audio editing program of which I don't know what it was, and they never did say which one they used, just said that people should use one. Anyways, I could see DIY doing a group of 4 1 hour episodes on home recording, not that would be enough to get much across like how to use a compressor, but I couldn't imagine they would invest much more time/money/air time on the idea of a home recording show then 4 or 6 shows. And hay the more people buying recording equipment the better, cause in six months they will have figured out that either they can do it, or they can't do it, and the ones that can't do will be selling off thier stuff on ebay for cheap which is good for me, and the ones that can do it, more power to them I wish them the best of luck.