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foreverain4
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anybody know of a really cheap or free program for doing invoices for a studio. at the same time keeping track of expenses and stuff.
Michael Jones
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Son of Mixerman
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If you already have Microsoft office you could use Excel. Thats what ive been using and its pretty decent.
SoMm
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foreverain4
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i have been using excel, i want more of a database type thing rather than having all my invoices as separate files.
Michael Jones
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foreverain4 said:
Quicken.
Quicken Basic (not available on-line) is about $69.
I use it for my business. It'll do what you're looking for. I used it mainly for payroll, but I'm pretty sure it has an inventory database in it too. And I know it'll generate invoices.
Michael Jones
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BTW... wasn't someone here on this BBS developing one specifically for studios??
I forget who it was.....
I forget who it was.....
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David Artis
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foreverain4
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did you create that David? i dont really see anywhere that there is a demo offered.
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David Artis
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Studio Complete
I am the creator. :0)
Love that phrase.
No demo at this time - just a 14 day money back guaruntee.
I sent you a PM with more details.
David Artis
www.scomplete.com
I am the creator. :0)
Love that phrase.
No demo at this time - just a 14 day money back guaruntee.
I sent you a PM with more details.
David Artis
www.scomplete.com
RICK FITZPATRICK
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Hello foreverain4(I forgot your real name, sorry)I don't have an answer cause I don't have a working studio. Just wanted to ask you if you are still woodworking? And how goes it? Last time I saw your studio it sure was looking cool. Have you changed or enlarged anything. Just curious. You know how woodworkers are. 
Always changing, cause they can!(btw, just outfitted my shop with all powermatic! Too much fun!)
fitZ
Always changing, cause they can!(btw, just outfitted my shop with all powermatic! Too much fun!)fitZ
DDev
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David - Your software package looks pretty good. Someday if I ever get any clients I might have to check into it.
Rick - Your Powermatic stuff is all HYPE!! It just cannot hold a candle to my $79 Central Machinery table saw from Harbor Freight.
Darryl.....
Rick - Your Powermatic stuff is all HYPE!! It just cannot hold a candle to my $79 Central Machinery table saw from Harbor Freight
.Darryl.....
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dizzlano
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studio software
Hey -
Definitely go with DAVIDS Studio Complete software. I just got mine setup and David quickly and eagerly halped me through the set up process on the phone.
Im just getting into using it, and its great reliable program, also VERY USER FRIENDLY
Thanks David !!
-Dan Tilgner
Hey -
Definitely go with DAVIDS Studio Complete software. I just got mine setup and David quickly and eagerly halped me through the set up process on the phone.
Im just getting into using it, and its great reliable program, also VERY USER FRIENDLY
Thanks David !!
-Dan Tilgner
Michael Jones
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DDev said:
Rick - Your Powermatic stuff is all HYPE!! It just cannot hold a candle to my $79 Central Machinery table saw from Harbor Freight
Darryl.....
How about a "Shop-Smith"?
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foreverain4
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RICK FITZPATRICK said:Hello foreverain4(I forgot your real name, sorry)I don't have an answer cause I don't have a working studio. Just wanted to ask you if you are still woodworking? And how goes it? Last time I saw your studio it sure was looking cool. Have you changed or enlarged anything. Just curious. You know how woodworkers are.
fitZ
yeah, still in the woodworking game. dont do much hands on at the shop anymore. i do mostly CAD design. kinda a bummer. but my studio has given me an excuse! lol some changes to the studio include adding an iso boothe. i got some crappy pictures at http://www.therecordinghouse.com/vocalboothe . it isnt finished yet. still have some trim work to do. got myself a new dewalt miter saw with that really cool stand that it comes with. i will definately give it a run through.
the powermatic stuff is cool. do you have any pics of your shop?lynn
RICK FITZPATRICK
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Its not the tool, its the operator...hehehehe like engineering
....you guys crack me up. Love it. Doggone, didn't mean to post about woodworking on a recording studio bbs. But to build a studio, got to have some tools. I mean ANY tools, still tools. I built my wifes kitchen cabinets with a contractors table saw and a few hand tools and it came out great. But I couldn't cut panels over 19" wide. PAIN IN THE ASS. Anything larger and I had to skillsaw it, square it with a router, etc. Never again. Thats why I bought some good stuff. Have to make a living with it so I bought good basics.
Tablesaws(2), planer, jointer, and a Laguna bandsaw. Like you said Lynn, when I was working in SAC, it was the CAD thing. Almost forgot alot of tricks
That Dewalt is cool. Costs as much as my unisaw. Nice tool though. I had to settle for a delta cheapo chop saw for now. I bought an old Delta unisaw on ebay up in Tacoma, for secondary setups. The powermatic is too good though. Kind of like the difference between a Studiomaster mixer and a Soundcraft. Much more heavy duty. I mean when you crank the handles.....oooooooooh, velvet. Or turn it on....it purrrrrrs. Ha!
Hey Darryl, those Harbor freight deals have their place. They have some amazing tools for the price. Just nothing commercial duty. I've worked with cheap stuff for so long, I don't know how to act in the shop "yes your lordship, I will adjust you while on my knees"
How's your studio coming Darryl? Any recording yet? I haven't even unpacked my studio stuff from moving yet. What a drag. ARRRRRGGGGGG!
Michael, are you using a shop smith? Not bad for building a studio. I mean, you don't need a shop full of commercial tools, just a few basics and the shop smith provides that. Crap, I would have MUCH rather spent the dough on studio stuff!! But my studio is just mostly for fun, and the shop is to make a living. Besides, my wife would've killed me
And Lynn, no I don't have pics yet. I'm still setting up. This is in a deep 2 car garage at home. Can't afford a commercial building YET. But thats alright. Kind of like home studios! I'll post one as soon as I'm done. Its nothing spectacular believe me, but it'll do. Besides, I'm thrilled to have a space to work in. I built the kitchen cabinets on a covered patio. Crap, biggest storm to hit Sac in 5 yrs hit while I was machining. Talk about miserable., Trying to move around 10' sheets of 3/4" melamine was....lets say NOT FUN(actually it was FUCKED UP!)
Speaking of space, damn I wish I had as much space in the shop, let alone a home studio! GEEEEEEZUS. You could fit a small symphony in there Lynn Looks GREAT!
Had any clients yet? What did you do for venting in the booth? Great job!
Well, time to go to work. Enough of the woodworking stuff here. Although, thats what studio building is about. Partially anyway. Thanks guys.
fitZ
....you guys crack me up. Love it. Doggone, didn't mean to post about woodworking on a recording studio bbs. But to build a studio, got to have some tools. I mean ANY tools, still tools. I built my wifes kitchen cabinets with a contractors table saw and a few hand tools and it came out great. But I couldn't cut panels over 19" wide. PAIN IN THE ASS. Anything larger and I had to skillsaw it, square it with a router, etc. Never again. Thats why I bought some good stuff. Have to make a living with it so I bought good basics.
Tablesaws(2), planer, jointer, and a Laguna bandsaw. Like you said Lynn, when I was working in SAC, it was the CAD thing. Almost forgot alot of tricks
That Dewalt is cool. Costs as much as my unisaw. Nice tool though. I had to settle for a delta cheapo chop saw for now. I bought an old Delta unisaw on ebay up in Tacoma, for secondary setups. The powermatic is too good though. Kind of like the difference between a Studiomaster mixer and a Soundcraft. Much more heavy duty. I mean when you crank the handles.....oooooooooh, velvet. Or turn it on....it purrrrrrs. Ha!Hey Darryl, those Harbor freight deals have their place. They have some amazing tools for the price. Just nothing commercial duty. I've worked with cheap stuff for so long, I don't know how to act in the shop
"yes your lordship, I will adjust you while on my knees" How's your studio coming Darryl? Any recording yet? I haven't even unpacked my studio stuff from moving yet. What a drag. ARRRRRGGGGGG!Michael, are you using a shop smith? Not bad for building a studio. I mean, you don't need a shop full of commercial tools, just a few basics and the shop smith provides that. Crap, I would have MUCH rather spent the dough on studio stuff!! But my studio is just mostly for fun, and the shop is to make a living. Besides, my wife would've killed me
And Lynn, no I don't have pics yet. I'm still setting up. This is in a deep 2 car garage at home. Can't afford a commercial building YET. But thats alright. Kind of like home studios! I'll post one as soon as I'm done. Its nothing spectacular believe me, but it'll do. Besides, I'm thrilled to have a space to work in. I built the kitchen cabinets on a covered patio. Crap, biggest storm to hit Sac in 5 yrs hit while I was machining. Talk about miserable., Trying to move around 10' sheets of 3/4" melamine was....lets say NOT FUN
(actually it was FUCKED UP!) Speaking of space, damn I wish I had as much space in the shop, let alone a home studio! GEEEEEEZUS. You could fit a small symphony in there Lynn
Looks GREAT!Had any clients yet? What did you do for venting in the booth? Great job!
Well, time to go to work. Enough of the woodworking stuff here. Although, thats what studio building is about. Partially anyway. Thanks guys.
fitZ
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foreverain4
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actually, the booth isnt vented. i just tell my clients that if they are not in the booth, leave the door open. it doesnt get very hot in there at all. kinda weird!!
Michael Jones
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No, I don't have a shop smith. I was just wondering what you guts thought of them.
Give me a skill saw, a hammer, a level and a good framing square, a hand full of bent nails and some 2x's and I can build damn near anything.
But that's carpentry, cabinet making is a whole 'nuther animal!
My dad's quite the wood worker. He's got all that crap; plainers, joiners, router tables, table saws... you name it, he likely has it.
I had to buy a few tools. A new level, new square, a power nailer, a compressor to drive it, a brad nailer, and these really cool sheetrock screwdriver guns.. the kind with the auto-advance of the screws. Too cool!
Give me a skill saw, a hammer, a level and a good framing square, a hand full of bent nails and some 2x's and I can build damn near anything.
But that's carpentry, cabinet making is a whole 'nuther animal!
My dad's quite the wood worker. He's got all that crap; plainers, joiners, router tables, table saws... you name it, he likely has it.
I had to buy a few tools. A new level, new square, a power nailer, a compressor to drive it, a brad nailer, and these really cool sheetrock screwdriver guns.. the kind with the auto-advance of the screws. Too cool!
RICK FITZPATRICK
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I bet you can Michael. I like that. But your right about cabinetry. Panels are the problem. Dealing with squareness on panels, is what makes cabinetry work. Otherwise, you end up with all kinds of problems. One parallelagram leads to another. Or trapazoid. The shop I used to work at had a huge panel saw that would cut to tolerances of .002 in 12'. They had to have that for working with cabinetry units when assembled were uppwards of 100' long and 10' high so everything had to be absolutely square. Ok, Michael, keep us up to date on YOUR studio progress. I always enjoy your posts.
fitZ
DDev
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Fitz - My studio construction basically finished up a few months ago. All I built was a tiny control room for now. A couple of weeks ago I did a demo tape for a 14 year old girl with a beautiful voice (who can't sing in tune with a track - go figure), so I erected a "temporary" vocal booth next to my control room. Basically I took a couple of pieces of 1x6x6 oak and cut a notch in them about 2x3 inches. These pieces were attached to opposite walls of my little niche I use for bookcases next to the studio, up near the ceiling. I then stretched a 2x3 across and attached some heavy blankets. It worked OK except it didn't keep the dog out while she was doing one take.
As far as woodworking goes, it is really my "other" hobby. I upgraded my Central machinery table saw I mentioned earlier to a used Craftsman contractor saw (an excellent $50 investment) and built an extension wing on it and added a router table in the extension. I've got a few drills, sanders, a drill press, and various hand tools also. I built my wife an Arts and Crafts style bedframe/headboard a couple of years ago and started a night stand to complement it. The night stand is still partially built (needs a shelf and a drawer) after nearly 2 years, which happens to coincide with my then-blossoming interest in home recording.
Ah well, here I go crashing this thread about invoices again talking about woodworking.
Ummmmm.........any ideas how I can find some billable hours for all my rambling?
Darryl.....
As far as woodworking goes, it is really my "other" hobby. I upgraded my Central machinery table saw I mentioned earlier to a used Craftsman contractor saw (an excellent $50 investment) and built an extension wing on it and added a router table in the extension. I've got a few drills, sanders, a drill press, and various hand tools also. I built my wife an Arts and Crafts style bedframe/headboard a couple of years ago and started a night stand to complement it. The night stand is still partially built (needs a shelf and a drawer) after nearly 2 years, which happens to coincide with my then-blossoming interest in home recording.
Ah well, here I go crashing this thread about invoices again talking about woodworking.
Ummmmm.........any ideas how I can find some billable hours for all my rambling?
Darryl.....
RICK FITZPATRICK
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Sorry Lynn, so did I. Don't know which I like more. Recording or woodworking.
Hey Darryl, about the billable hours. If I could do that I'd be a millionare from my ramblings. Bla bla bla. "Thankyou, thats $125.00 per minute." Ha, my attorney charged me $5k for less than 6 hrs talking. I told him to go fuck himself. NOBODY is worth that much. Well, maybe Paul McCartney
Hmmmm, isn't ebosity worth ANYTHING?(is ebosity a word?
)fitZ
PS, Darryl I LOVE the arts and craft woodworking. Especially old homes.
