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moresound
Loud Sun Studios
Couldn't hurt to ask. 
Lt. Bob
Spread the Daf!
you misunderstood ..... I wasn't talking about my music. I meant I don't give a crap about convincing anyone of my POV in one of these discussions.Oh...why don't you "give a crap" about your music?
Heck...put some stuff up if you got good stuff.
Everyone has their own opinions and that's just fine by me. So I'm never willing to spend any time on finding cites or links to support my POV.
As for the music ..... meh ...... I do it for myself. I earn my living as a live player and the studio is just where I have fun. I don't really care that much what anyone thinks of it and since I play to audiences 4 and 5 times a week, I don't have a lack of being heard. For some people the main way they get anyone to listen is here but that's not the case for me.
Plus ..... since I do everything in an analog fashion ...... it's never a matter of just clicking on 'send' to get a file uploaded. I have to play it in real time as I burn it to CD ...... take that to the 'puter and load it into the 'puter before I can post it. Takes time I never really have.
I'm going to be working on a full fledged CD in the next year or so. I'll likely put some of that up.
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moresound
Loud Sun Studios
I'm going to be working on a full fledged CD in the next year or so. I'll likely put some of that up. -- Lt. Bob
I can't wait!
I can't wait!
miroslav
Cosmic Cowboy
I also don't go out of my way to post up stuff, though I do have a website and YT channel (I have a MySpace site too, but have pretty much given up on MS...their new musician/artist portal sucks MAJOR ass).
Most of the stuff I have online now is already a couple of years or more old, though I am working a new album right now and should have it probably by next year. I was hoping to have it done by now, but just when I got up some steam to get-er-done...life shows up and says "NOT SO FAST!"
I also do this manly for "me"...but I am eager to take the sound quality to pro-levels if possible, and I am ultimately looking to find a market for the music (not me as an "artist"), but it's a very long shot. Even so, I think the more improved the quality (the iPod crowd not included
), the better it will sell to major artists or management looking for new songs.I will say that even though I'm always learning and improving my skills...I added some new gear in the last couple of years that has significantly taken the audio quality up a few notches...at least it sounds like it has to me. I'll know for sure when the album is done.
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nym15rc
New member
Wow, I thank you all for your detailed, informative responces! Everybody seems to know what they are talking about here, so as of right now, I think i'm going to put some of the stuff on youtube (acoustically), get some feedback, and then i'll see from there if I want to make an investment and get started with homerecording. But i'll definately be sticking around here, you guys have a great forum.
Thanks!
Thanks!
Steenamaroo
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I'm glad you got something useful from this.
You're already doing better than most
Seriously though, best of luck.
You're already doing better than most
Seriously though, best of luck.
diggy_dude
Now 169% diggier!
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moresound
Loud Sun Studios
guitaristic
prophet of Dave
miroslav
Cosmic Cowboy
Everybody seems to know what they are talking about here...Really? We're making all of this up as we go along!
I stayed at a Holiday Inn....
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moresound
Loud Sun Studios
Really? We're making all of this up as we go along!
That's what you think!!
Haha juuuuust kidding
Or am I?
Or am I not?
Only the guys down in the cave really know what it's all about.
grimtraveller
If only for a moment.....
Crucial. You need to have some idea of what you're doing, which leads to
There's no real substitute for learning except paying someone else to do it ! Either watch someone else if possible or DIY, which, as a home recorder, is more likely, more fun and much more rewarding.
Maybe recording is just a means to an end for some, in which case, fun is incidental. But I think for most of us on this board that record, it is fun. Challenging, sometimes frustrating, but fun.
Buck~buck~buckaaaaaaw !
grimtraveller
If only for a moment.....
Progression. Patience. Persistence.
Most people it seems, that start recording at home want to finish a process that has begun in their heads. They want to get those sounds and ideas into something concrete and permanent. This entire "commercial quality by yesterday" mentality feels like an extension of the 'instant coffee' philosophy that began to creep in in the 1950s. The idea of waiting, learning, taking one's time and progressing seems like a lost and dying artifact of a bygone era. So teenagers, for example, {I mean 12 and 13 year olds !} 'know' more about sex, drugs and relationships experiencially in greater numbers and commonality than they did even 35 years ago. You could point to lots of areas where this has happened {politics, sport, school.....} and so it's not really a surprize that this has crept into home recording. I'm with Lt Bob on this one ~ starting small and relatively cheap makes sense. If I would stake my life on one thing, it's that every person that records at home at some point feels the need to upgrade their gear. And running parallel to this is expanding one's gear. For example, when you come across so many references to dynamic, condenser and {to a lesser degree} ribbon mics, natural curiosity and the experimental beast within the home recorder almost inevitably dictates that you'll look at trying out at least the first two to see what kind of difference, if any, they'll make.
A slight side~track; if you look at the recording history of many bands/artists that have made 5 or more albums in most genres across most decades since the 60s, one thing that really will come across is progression. It's just a fact of life. I can't honestly see why people have such a problem with spending a bit of money and then a little while later spending more as your knowledge and expectations and ideas increase. I think what Steenamaroo was getting at in his first post wasn't so much that it takes $10,000 to start off, but rather, there's a progressive edge to this endeavour that takes funding. How much one spends is down to the individual of course. But the reality is that one will spend money.
One final thing; quality is in the ear of the beholder. It's a rather nebulous term because it does not mean the same to everyone. Even in the analog days there was always a disparity in the sounds of records ~ some were clear, some punchy, some muddy, some dull. Digital hasn't changed that. The ease with which people are able to get their music heard perhaps hasn't helped, but essentially, those that stick with it get better. But not yesterday.
Most people it seems, that start recording at home want to finish a process that has begun in their heads. They want to get those sounds and ideas into something concrete and permanent. This entire "commercial quality by yesterday" mentality feels like an extension of the 'instant coffee' philosophy that began to creep in in the 1950s. The idea of waiting, learning, taking one's time and progressing seems like a lost and dying artifact of a bygone era. So teenagers, for example, {I mean 12 and 13 year olds !} 'know' more about sex, drugs and relationships experiencially in greater numbers and commonality than they did even 35 years ago. You could point to lots of areas where this has happened {politics, sport, school.....} and so it's not really a surprize that this has crept into home recording. I'm with Lt Bob on this one ~ starting small and relatively cheap makes sense. If I would stake my life on one thing, it's that every person that records at home at some point feels the need to upgrade their gear. And running parallel to this is expanding one's gear. For example, when you come across so many references to dynamic, condenser and {to a lesser degree} ribbon mics, natural curiosity and the experimental beast within the home recorder almost inevitably dictates that you'll look at trying out at least the first two to see what kind of difference, if any, they'll make.
A slight side~track; if you look at the recording history of many bands/artists that have made 5 or more albums in most genres across most decades since the 60s, one thing that really will come across is progression. It's just a fact of life. I can't honestly see why people have such a problem with spending a bit of money and then a little while later spending more as your knowledge and expectations and ideas increase. I think what Steenamaroo was getting at in his first post wasn't so much that it takes $10,000 to start off, but rather, there's a progressive edge to this endeavour that takes funding. How much one spends is down to the individual of course. But the reality is that one will spend money.
One final thing; quality is in the ear of the beholder. It's a rather nebulous term because it does not mean the same to everyone. Even in the analog days there was always a disparity in the sounds of records ~ some were clear, some punchy, some muddy, some dull. Digital hasn't changed that. The ease with which people are able to get their music heard perhaps hasn't helped, but essentially, those that stick with it get better. But not yesterday.