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Beck
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What I want to know is how many threads with the word "Naked" in the title am I going to have to click on before I see some nudity? This is getting ridiculous. 
true-eurt
Maneater
What I want to know is how many threads with the word "Naked" in the title am I going to have to click on before I see some nudity? This is getting ridiculous.
Search no more....go to the cave.
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Robert D
New member
Sorry I'm so late getting to this thread. I was busy RECORDING!
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cusebassman
Freakin' sweet
Im bored at work, so Im going to answer! ...even though it is not nice that he should come in here and yell at us for talking 
Im sad now.
So, why do we all sit around gabbing about recording instead of actually doing it? Well...
1) There's the day-job factor. When Im at work (9 hours of each of my days), I have some downtime and I like to unwind by chatting about recording. I miss music when I am in the void of software engineering, so talking about it maintains my sanity.
2) There's the sheer love of recording and technique and learning more and more about it, even if you aren't experiencing it yourself at the moment - a lot of people say you learn more by doing than by reading, and I agree with this. However, when you only have a particular collection of gear, you might not ever have reason to experience half the weird shit people come on here to talk about.
3) I don't want to record 24/7. Sorry guys, but I don't. Sometimes even when Im back at home, I am tired and don't want to pick up the guitar or work on mixes... I want to sit back, watch a movie, and fuck around online - and honestly, the Internet has gotten kind of boring, and the bbs is here all the time.
Hey look at that! I just used up some of my downtime doing exactly what I talked about in point #1
Now stop being mean, making all of us overly sensitive hr.com members upset. For shame.
Im sad now.So, why do we all sit around gabbing about recording instead of actually doing it? Well...
1) There's the day-job factor. When Im at work (9 hours of each of my days), I have some downtime and I like to unwind by chatting about recording. I miss music when I am in the void of software engineering, so talking about it maintains my sanity.
2) There's the sheer love of recording and technique and learning more and more about it, even if you aren't experiencing it yourself at the moment - a lot of people say you learn more by doing than by reading, and I agree with this. However, when you only have a particular collection of gear, you might not ever have reason to experience half the weird shit people come on here to talk about.
3) I don't want to record 24/7. Sorry guys, but I don't. Sometimes even when Im back at home, I am tired and don't want to pick up the guitar or work on mixes... I want to sit back, watch a movie, and fuck around online - and honestly, the Internet has gotten kind of boring, and the bbs is here all the time.
Hey look at that! I just used up some of my downtime doing exactly what I talked about in point #1
Now stop being mean, making all of us overly sensitive hr.com members upset. For shame.
lbanks
Banned
We'll just draw it in to the Cave. There no one will know the difference.
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cusebassman
Freakin' sweet
Hey! Stop screwin up my giant list of threads that only I recently responded to in this part of the bbs!
...jerk
...jerk
c7sus
Disenfranchised Member
I'll admit I spend much more time reading stuff online and playing than actually recording. This shit is complicated!!!!! I've got a full-on Voyager rig that is real easy to get lost in just fooling around. Now I wanna go into hardware/CV sequencing-- about an $1,800 proposition from Synthesizers.com. But there ain't NOTHING sounds like the real thing and that's why one of these days I'll go for it.
The upgrades I have done in the last couple years have been SO worth it. My studio isn't just a DAW and a mic. It's a Voyager and tons of old-school analog FX, a custom Leslie, a couple drum machines, software plugs, boutique pedals. I've spent the time and the $$$ to get my favorite stuff that I LIKE TO FUCK AROUND WITH. This is MY SANDBOX.
A knob-tweakers' dream pretty much.
This is what I dreamed about when I was 10 years old. So I can honestly say I have achieved my childhood dream of having a home-studio. But really the "recording" portion is only a fraction of the whole. It's nothing without musicianship and soul and decent arranging. The amount of focus it takes to play something and capture a decent performance and do it over and over BY YOURSELF is pretty impressive IMHO. Maybe I'm slow or something. I always want to do another take.
Putting it all together while raising kids and getting divorced and tripping around the countryside hasn't provided a lot of continuity. I'm on my 3rd rig, most stable and best-sounding by far. I really don't care if I ever record a note for anybody else to hear. I do this strictly for me and MY PERSONAL SATISFACTION. This is my oasis in a chaotic house with three teenage boys coming and going every day of the week.
But you should see my 12-year-old's rig. Yeah, he's got a Multimix8 and is into Podcasting, uses Vegas7, PA9 and Sonar4 (on my rig), FLASH8 and is learning Action Script. He knows a condensor from a dynamic. Right now he is trying to set up a server from scrounged parts on an open-source OS.
He records stuff on my rig too. Voyager improvisations and his trombone, on his rig they have done spoof commercials. He prefers Vegas7 to Sonar but is like the guy Flying Fingers from the Mixerman Diaries when it comes to editing. He's experimented with syncing animation to audio overdubs and lot's of other stuff that most 12-year-olds never even thought of.
And that's really where the payoff has been so far. My kids are surrounded by this technology and the music I play almost daily. They both play to one degree or another, between them: trumpet, trombone, guitar, and a little bass and keys and MIDI drums. My youngest hasn't quite figured out mixer-routing, but then again neither have half the guys camped out here! But once you get him into Sonar or Vegas you better get out of the way because he understands software on an intuitive level.
As far as advice, I've gotten great advice about just about any recording topic under the sun. If you can name it, somebody here has used it and has an opinion about it. WTF else do you want FOR FUCKIN' FREE???
Shit....... when I started out with a Portastudio in the early 80's there wasn't ANYPLACE to learn this stuff except in a studio. Now there are LONGTIME PRO'S THAT MADE THEIR BREAD AND BUTTER CREATING THE RECORDINGS WE ALL USE AS THE BENCHMARKS FOR OUR EFFORTS ONLINE AND THEY OFFER THEIR EXPERTISE FOR GRATIS.
Besides THAT, from what I hear of the members' contributions around here I'd say there's hella more talented folks out there that ain't signed to any label than are. And they're doing it in their house without a big-bucks producer and a never-ending budget. Bully for them!!!!
The upgrades I have done in the last couple years have been SO worth it. My studio isn't just a DAW and a mic. It's a Voyager and tons of old-school analog FX, a custom Leslie, a couple drum machines, software plugs, boutique pedals. I've spent the time and the $$$ to get my favorite stuff that I LIKE TO FUCK AROUND WITH. This is MY SANDBOX.
A knob-tweakers' dream pretty much.
This is what I dreamed about when I was 10 years old. So I can honestly say I have achieved my childhood dream of having a home-studio. But really the "recording" portion is only a fraction of the whole. It's nothing without musicianship and soul and decent arranging. The amount of focus it takes to play something and capture a decent performance and do it over and over BY YOURSELF is pretty impressive IMHO. Maybe I'm slow or something. I always want to do another take.
Putting it all together while raising kids and getting divorced and tripping around the countryside hasn't provided a lot of continuity. I'm on my 3rd rig, most stable and best-sounding by far. I really don't care if I ever record a note for anybody else to hear. I do this strictly for me and MY PERSONAL SATISFACTION. This is my oasis in a chaotic house with three teenage boys coming and going every day of the week.
But you should see my 12-year-old's rig. Yeah, he's got a Multimix8 and is into Podcasting, uses Vegas7, PA9 and Sonar4 (on my rig), FLASH8 and is learning Action Script. He knows a condensor from a dynamic. Right now he is trying to set up a server from scrounged parts on an open-source OS.
He records stuff on my rig too. Voyager improvisations and his trombone, on his rig they have done spoof commercials. He prefers Vegas7 to Sonar but is like the guy Flying Fingers from the Mixerman Diaries when it comes to editing. He's experimented with syncing animation to audio overdubs and lot's of other stuff that most 12-year-olds never even thought of.
And that's really where the payoff has been so far. My kids are surrounded by this technology and the music I play almost daily. They both play to one degree or another, between them: trumpet, trombone, guitar, and a little bass and keys and MIDI drums. My youngest hasn't quite figured out mixer-routing, but then again neither have half the guys camped out here! But once you get him into Sonar or Vegas you better get out of the way because he understands software on an intuitive level.
As far as advice, I've gotten great advice about just about any recording topic under the sun. If you can name it, somebody here has used it and has an opinion about it. WTF else do you want FOR FUCKIN' FREE???
Shit....... when I started out with a Portastudio in the early 80's there wasn't ANYPLACE to learn this stuff except in a studio. Now there are LONGTIME PRO'S THAT MADE THEIR BREAD AND BUTTER CREATING THE RECORDINGS WE ALL USE AS THE BENCHMARKS FOR OUR EFFORTS ONLINE AND THEY OFFER THEIR EXPERTISE FOR GRATIS.
Besides THAT, from what I hear of the members' contributions around here I'd say there's hella more talented folks out there that ain't signed to any label than are. And they're doing it in their house without a big-bucks producer and a never-ending budget. Bully for them!!!!
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bodaddy
New member
Do ya'll mean there are actually people that do recording on this site. Well crapola, I'm leaving and going somewhere where we all just sit around and act like we know what the heck we're doing.
fraserhutch
Flypaper for freaks
I don't even bother to try to look like I know what I'm doing anymore...
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ofajen
Daddy-O Daddy-O Baby
Did you ever solve this problem? Does your mixer have balanced inputs? If so, are you using them and "forward referencing"? You tie the unbalanced output ground to the minus side of the balanced input. Of course it's a very good idea to make sure that any unbalanced gear you use is close together and on the same ground, too. If need be, you could also run the DVD outputs into a pair of 1:1 transformers and get rid of the common mode ground noise that way, but that's probably the most expensive remedy.
Cheers,
Otto
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