New Members: Introduce Yourself Here!

[Pedro Dos]

Hello, my name is Pedro i have a 2 room studio that i build and i'm here to get some advices on gear !

 

[TheBassClef]

Hello I am new here. I play bass and currently enrolled at LA film school for music production. hopefully I can learn stuff here

 

[Slouching Raymond]

Pedro and TheBassClef, Welcome!

 

[thesteppenwolf]

Yes, welcome Satchel. Your working area looks very bare and 'reflective' I see you have your mic in a Reflection Filter, never used one but write ups say they help. I would still like to see some absorbent material in front of and behind the mic setup and of course, the filter will do nothing to help the sound from your monitors.

As soon as you can I suggest you post some clips of songs (320 MP3 attachments suit me best) for the top blokes here to critique. Don't worry! They will be kind and constructive. I shall listen but not comment. Clinically mutton mate.

Dave.

Thanks for the suggestions. I’ve been doing vocals in a small walk in closet.

 

[Paul8311!!]

Greetings to all. New member here. Looking to start networking as I am in an Audio Production program. Hope to meet and collaborate with others.

My program is a Bachelors with the Los Angeles Film School. I would like my areas of focus to be Live Sound and Post-Production with Studio recording work on the side which includes podcasting and voice overs.

I am gradually working on getting a small studio set up with basic gear but have done what I can using mostly digital audio and recording my own vocal tracks. I've also worked on creating Foley FX for projects.

As mentioned. hope to work with others to gain experience.

 

[LionKing]

Hi everyone, I’m Lion
Music is just a personal hobby for me — my job has nothing to do with audio or music at all.
I really appreciate everyone here for sharing so much knowledge.
It’s great to be able to learn things outside of my main profession.

 

[Slouching Raymond]

Good to have you here Lion!

 

[TalismanRich]

Hi everyone, I’m Lion
Music is just a personal hobby for me — my job has nothing to do with audio or music at all.
I really appreciate everyone here for sharing so much knowledge.
It’s great to be able to learn things outside of my main profession.

I think that's the case for a lot of us... music is a hobby, not our livelihood. In some respects, that's a good thing. We do it for fun, not because we have to do it to eat and pay the rent.

 

[DayGZax]

Hello everyone, I am producer from Serbia. Music production is my hobby and passion, but hope some day as full time job. I like to experiment with music so I am producing various genres like Progressive House, Slap House, Bass House...and recently begun with Tropical/Pop House so I have one track posted on my youtube channel and for the second song, I am now searching maybe a label to collaborate with. Looking forward to this forum and also if anyone produces these genres, maybe we can collab and also if here there are some singers, I would be glad to collab on new songs and make something awesome.

 

[robertleach]

I have just joined. I play piano and organ in two 15-piece bands (5 sax, 5 brass, 5 rhythm) and have converted a bedroom into a music room. I wish to use this as a recording studio for my own and others' amusement. I currently have a 16-channel Zoom deck and an 8-channel cassette deck which I no longer use. I also have a massive library of sheet music and recorded music, including about 5000 backing tracks. I intend to buy a new computer with suitable software. Some research suggests that Reaper seems a good choice, but I welcome any other suggestions. Any help on what to buy, and where from, and how to set it up will be greatly appreciated. I live in Epsom and confess to being a chartered accountant.

 

[Slouching Raymond]

Welcome Robert. At least you're not a Quantity Surveyor.
I can't stick backing tracks. A real musician would just play live.
You have some good knowledge, that I could tap into.
Post some of you're music, when you're ready.

 

[ecc83]

I have just joined. I play piano and organ in two 15-piece bands (5 sax, 5 brass, 5 rhythm) and have converted a bedroom into a music room. I wish to use this as a recording studio for my own and others' amusement. I currently have a 16-channel Zoom deck and an 8-channel cassette deck which I no longer use. I also have a massive library of sheet music and recorded music, including about 5000 backing tracks. I intend to buy a new computer with suitable software. Some research suggests that Reaper seems a good choice, but I welcome any other suggestions. Any help on what to buy, and where from, and how to set it up will be greatly appreciated. I live in Epsom and confess to being a chartered accountant.

Hi there and welcome. I'm Dave can I call you Bob? I am no musician but a retired electronics tech. My son lives in France and IS a very good muso, mainly guitar and bass but pretty good on keys, clarinet,brass. Top bllks on music theory and reads well.

New computer? Pretty easy these days...top end i7 or i9 CPU, min 16G ram, (more if you do video) SSD of course 1TB min and the fastest you can get. You don't actually need "Deep Thought" to make even quite complex audio recordings but it pays to be future proof if you can afford it! Reaper? Right on and install the free version of Cakewalk, quite fun.

As a fellow limey(?) I have to tell you to check out the forum at www.soundonsound.com.

Dave.

 

[robertleach]

Welcome Robert. At least you're not a Quantity Surveyor.
I can't stick backing tracks. A real musician would just play live.
You have some good knowledge, that I could tap into.
Post some of you're music, when you're ready.

Happy to help. I spent today clearing out the music room. I have shelves and shelves and shelves of sheet music, a piano, harpsichord, drums, timpani, crates and crates if percussion, more than 20 microphones (I think they breed) and a crate full of leads.

 

[matthewphealey]

Hi all, finally jumping into the conversation after observing for years. Spending most of my time these days amassing (and meticulously cleaning) gear and have a soft spot for cheap mics. I’m currently working on rebuilding a Tascam M-308 (nearly there). Thanks for having me!

 

[robertleach]

Anyone reasonably near Epsom willing to provide a hand-holding service to an experienced musician and inexperienced sound engineer. Happy to pay a reasonable fee and take you to the local pub for a good meal. Please contact me on 020 8224 5695 or robert.leach04@googlemail.com . Many thanks