Should i leave Homerecording.com

[mshilarious]

Guys ... it's an internet forum.

Wot? A mutineer?! Keel-haul 'em!!!

 

[RAK]

Wot? A mutineer?! Keel-haul 'em!!!

you're really taking advantage of "talk like a pirate day."

 

[SRR]

Aaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrghhhhhhh, it be talk like a pirate day, Ayyyyyye, shiver me timbers, aaaarrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh.

 

[kojdogg]

+1 for arh

 

[solo.guitar]

i find myself reading and posting on Gearslutz a lot more these days, simply b/c the "level" is higher. i don't care about Nady or Apex or Behri or quite frankly a lot of the gear that's discussed here--in terms of price/quality/performance/etc, it's "below" where i am and want to be. I care about Apogee and Benchmark and Great River and a lot of the other stuff that's much less frequently discussed here (and much more frequently discussed there).

I'd rather talk about making the most of "lower/mediocre" gear than how awesome some $8,000 preamp or $4,000 microphone is.

 

[kojdogg]

I'd rather talk about making the most of "lower/mediocre" gear than how awesome some $8,000 preamp or $4,000 microphone is.

definitely, this is "home recording" after all. i'm not sure and i hope he corrects me if i'm wrong here but i think that undergroundtoon might have originally been referring to the kind of g.a.s. that can keep people from using what they have to the best of their ability because they feel like their stuff isn't up to par with what other people or "pros" are using.

 

[Robert D]

Undergroundtoon, you cynical bastard. Man, that's a pretty harsh view of the people on here. I'm not sure what catagory I or many other folks here fit in. I'm not selling anything, I'd like to think I'm not a Newb, and someone here had to talk me into finally putting a link to some of my music under my sig, which I really don't think about.
This place, for me, is simply a place to shoot the shit about a subject I love, and to engage in a give and take of ideas and knowledge. Sure there are people with alterior motives, but that's life everywhere.

Hope you stick around.

 

[Big Kenny]

I'd rather talk about making the most of "lower/mediocre" gear than how awesome some $8,000 preamp or $4,000 microphone is.

But not as many folks want to listen

 

[cannabis]

...What i NEED is free time to record and self teach. I wish i could get fired from my job and live off of unemployment for nine months to make my cartoon, but i have morals so i guess its not in my cards. What's this got to do with mics you ask. I started on the mic forum and i am going to end on it. I am leaving homerecording.com. the few hours i spend on here a day i am going to dedicate to recording. I may come back as a guest to look things up when i get stumped, but i am not going to post anymore. I am no pro so i should not give advice and anything i need is in the search button.

good luck to you all. may you find what you are lookng for.
ROBERT ANDERSON
UNDERGROUNDTOON

signing off.......................................................................

many of us (myself included)

fart around here and waste our time

as a form of light entertainment

when we could be

improving our recording chops

by actually doing it



sure it's nice to

aspire to new and better gear

but the truth is

experience (and artist) is 90 per cent

and gear is 10 per cent

of a quality recording



so if time spent here

is time subtracted from

actually recording

then get the hell out



and i hope to follow you soon

 

[XLR]

HR has a feel to it that I like. There's a general sense of passion for making music, passion for recording, humor everywhere, openness to musical styles, tolerance for edgy behavior (a good thing) and a lack of tolerance for arrogance, pompousness or fakery.

HR is kind of like a Wild West town... drunks coming out of the saloon shooting their guns in the air, lots of prospectors passing through looking to get rich quick, a few hard cases looking for trouble, occasional shootouts on the street, preachers yelling about fire and brimstone on the street corner. But most are just hard working and good-hearted folk.

…and yes there is some very fine music in the mp3 Clinic. Actual sound quality always cuts through any BS.

Tim

 

[EddieRay]

Wait... y'mean there's actually a way out of here???

 

[Robert D]

HR is kind of like a Wild West town... drunks coming out of the saloon shooting their guns in the air, lots of prospectors passing through looking to get rich quick, a few hard cases looking for trouble, occasional shootouts on the street, preachers yelling about fire and brimstone on the street corner. But most are just hard working and good-hearted folk.

Tim

Excellent analogy Tim, and amusingly applicable.

 

[kojdogg]

HR has a feel to it that I like. There's a general sense of passion for making music, passion for recording, humor everywhere, openness to musical styles, tolerance for edgy behavior (a good thing) and a lack of tolerance for arrogance, pompousness or fakery.

HR is kind of like a Wild West town... drunks coming out of the saloon shooting their guns in the air, lots of prospectors passing through looking to get rich quick, a few hard cases looking for trouble, occasional shootouts on the street, preachers yelling about fire and brimstone on the street corner. But most are just hard working and good-hearted folk.

…and yes there is some very fine music in the mp3 Clinic. Actual sound quality always cut through any BS.

Tim

elegantly stated mr. lawler

 

[EddieRay]

HR has a feel to it that I like. There's a general sense of passion for making music, passion for recording, humor everywhere, openness to musical styles, tolerance for edgy behavior (a good thing) and a lack of tolerance for arrogance, pompousness or fakery.

HR is kind of like a Wild West town... drunks coming out of the saloon shooting their guns in the air, lots of prospectors passing through looking to get rich quick, a few hard cases looking for trouble, occasional shootouts on the street, preachers yelling about fire and brimstone on the street corner. But most are just hard working and good-hearted folk.

…and yes there is some very fine music in the mp3 Clinic. Actual sound quality always cut through any BS.

Tim

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Timothy Lawler again.

 

[slidey]

I like this place as a place to have comunications with like minded people about anything

I learn a lot about random things that are often helpful just by skimming various forums & every now & then I post a question or ask the best way or how would you questions

& every now & then someone pops up & flames you to death but that's cool I enjoy a good verbal scrap

I've found that most of the regular posters on this site have ways to help & advise from their own experience which in turn has helped me & there are others who just treat it like a place of chat & good crack which is great. It's like a big place of happy medium it's not overly serious & it's got a lot of education hidden in the archives

so should you leave?? nah, stick around & have a gas

 

[kojdogg]

elegantly stated as well mr. slidey....er... "boing!"

 

[slidey]

elegantly stated as well mr. slidey....er... "boing!"

that's my line Kojj

 

[slidey]

thanks anyway

 

[mrface2112]

I'd rather talk about making the most of "lower/mediocre" gear

personally, i'd rather be recording than talking about recording. but you're perfectly welcome to talk about whatever you want to.

but honestly, anyone who's "been around here" long enough or "done any recording" for any significant length of time really kinda gets tired of the $100 mic preamp discussions, mainly b/c they've all been discussed--usually ad nauseum. scroll 5, 10, 15 pages deep in the mic forum and you'll see the same questions and threads, over and over and over, going back years.

and at the expense of sounding un-PC, it is TRUE--once you start using better stuff, you don't really want to use the "lower end" stuff. would i rather use my dragonfly or SP B1? largely depends on the source, but all things equal, the dragonfly does the job better--and given the cost, it OUGHT TO.

that's not to say that the lower end stuff isn't usable--IT IS. and it's sure as hell a lot more usable than it was 10, 15 years ago.

but it's all TOOLS......it's just that some tools simply help you do your job a little faster or a little easier. can you change a tire with just a pair of pliers? sure you can. but will it go as smoothly as with a tire iron? probably not and i'd prepare for bloody knuckles. do you need a pneumatic impact wrench for that job? no, but that's what the "pros" use--and it sure makes the job go a whole lot faster and easier. and it's damnsure a lot more fun than using a pair of pliers.

now apply the above analogy to recording gear.

today I read a thread discussing the merits of various 1176 reissues, and there was not really a consensus opinion. I suspect that is somewhat typical.

i read through that thread too, and you're right--there was no consensus and that IS typical. it's much like "which of the studio projects mics do you like?" threads around here. you're gonna have proponents and detractors of just about everything. are blondes better than redheads? personally, i dig brunettes.

this is "home recording" after all

it is. but "home recording" covers a WHOLE WIDE WORLD of "homes" and "recording". 20 years ago i was recording bad REM covers with a boombox and a couple radio shack mics hanging on cables from the rafters in the garage, hoping to capture the drums, guitar, bass and vocals (to a varying degree of success).

today i do it with 14 channels to a computer with outboard mic pres, compressors and all kinds of fun in a decent room. in 15 years i hope to have stepped up the quality a considerable bit more--if not just to give my kids somewhere to record and i hope to have a much nicer room and gear than i have today.

is one any more or less "home recording" than the other? i don't think so. there's a place for everyone (be it boombox guy or neve guy) here--or at least, there oughta be.

In simplest terms, IMO, "home recording" should not have a price boundary attached to it.


regardless, i DO understand what toon is talking about......and if you look through the posts over the years, you'll see that people typically come here green, get some learnin and experience, and then tend to move on......rinse, repeat.


cheers,
wade

 

[slidey]

regardless, i DO understand what toon is talking about......and if you look through the posts over the years, you'll see that people typically come here green, get some learnin and experience, and then tend to move on......rinse, repeat.

I'd been recording for years & realised there must be somewhere for people to ask Qs & get As so I googled "free recording forums" & this was where I ended up

I live in an area where recording/music enthusiasts are few & far between so it has been invaluable to problems I've had & furthermore it's rescued my sanity a few times when I've realised suddenly "I'm not alone" other people have the same problems