What have you learned hear ?

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Personally,

1. Bassman pointed out durring a colaboration, that I did with him, that my recording had to much niose. I tried turning my giutar away from my equiptment, cut the noise in half. Thank you bassman!!

2. Emeric pointed out that there was too much string squeek on my acoustic, will have to work on that. Thanks Emeric!!

3. Track rat pointed out on my last mp3, that it sounded muddy, this is after I had raised the 250cycle on my eq only 2db higher than what I usually keep it at, that's some good ears. Thanks Track rat!!

4 Doc pointed out distortion on my last recording, and even told me where in the chain he thought it might be. Thanks Doc!!

There's more!!

GT
 
The things I've learned here could fill volumes. Thanks to all.
 
Well, just about everything I've learned I learned here.

If I had to pin it down to what was the single most important thing it would probably have to be "Cut, don't boost! ". I still sometimes find myself forgetting that, but I'm finding that one piece of wisdom to be EXTREMELY important (as a generalization anyway).
 
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I've learned that:

'hear' is interchangable with 'here'
so is 'advice' and 'advise'

I hope nobody is trying to learn english over the internet ;)
 
I here U!!! :D :D :D

Unfortunately, you're right about that. And by the way, that's the only time I ever did anything as 14-year-old-who-thinks-he's-hot-sh*t as substituting the letter "U" for the word "you". It's also the last.

... and my apologies to the 14 year olds who actually have brains. I didn't mean to imply you're all immature. ;)
 
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I've learned that I could spend a thousand years trying to become a competent mixer and still come up short. This may sound depressing, but to the contrary- I've decided to just continue to write songs and have some PROFESSIONALS record the demos I need to pitch to publishers. This is a very liberating thing, and I owe it all to Dragon & Friends!
I also learned that MisterCQue is a DJ!:D

Bob
 
TexRoadkill,

I never thought that someone with the name TexRoadkill, would ever be correcting my grammer, fate rears it's ugly head.

I do no the difference between hear and here, it was a typo of sorts.

I will admit that my spelling is horendous. Feel free to correct me anytime, it can do me no harm.

GT
 
Well, there is the whole no and know thing, but we'll just let that slide for now.

The most important things I've learned:

* Good microphones can be had for very cheap.

* Good preamps can't.

* Expensive a/d converters are an attempt to rip you off.

* So is cheap tube gear. :)

But I do hope that someone out there can say they learned one important lesson from Chessrock, and that is that 99.9% of the time, the answer to all your problems is to simply change your strings.
 
GT- just playing with you ;)

By my name you would probably picture a fat, redneck hillbilly but I'm actually an overeducated, underachieving slacker who reads 2 books a week and tries to manage a career, single parenthood, home recording and a healthy, recreational drug habit.

If I correct you on anything other than your spelling than you should really be worried ;)
 
you cant get out of a track what you didnt put into it....if you want that Korn sound, put on their CD......
 
Or you can put the Orville Redenbacher in to the microwave.

Love the sound of that Korn poppin'
 
Match your levels

Don't screw around with fx's when recording.. the cleaner the better

Use a preamp, not a mixer, to get your signals to tape

Monitors

Headphones can tamper with your pitch perception when singing (many, many thanks to Queue, Spinsterwun, and vox for this)

Buy cheap, buy twice (although I'm not sure if this is doing anything for my patience, since it will take me over two years to save up for that DAW)

That sjoko worked a session with John Bonham (and if sjoko could be so kind, I would like to consider that as two degrees separation between me and my favorite drummer)

Thanks to Dragon, Bruce, Ed, sjoko, Gidge, Green Hornet, Queue, Spinster, vox, Slack, RWhite, and anyone else who I forgot.

Cy
 
Yo Amigos & Amigas:

Everytime I punch in this site I LEARN. Little bits and pieces from many of you have helped me in many ways, especially when I jumped into the Yamaha 2816.

Thanks to all and Happy Spring.

PS I don't want to correct spelling stuff; I did that for too many years as a composition teacher. But, once in a while, I forget myself. [English Composition that is]

Green Hornet:D :D :p :p
 
I come from the analog domain and what I've learned here while putting this digital home studio together has been priceless.

An old dog CAN learn new tricks.
 
Mostly I've learned that I HAVE SO MUCH TO LEARN!

Thanks everyone for your excellent and timely advice. Long Live the Homewreckers BBS!
 
I've learned that there's less than five Conservatives on a BBS with over 10,000 members... and I'm one of them! :eek:
 
i learned the rule of diminishing returns. :D
and lots of other things. not everything i know about recording, but a good chunk of it. ok, what I know is not much, but i do know a little bit more now. at least i now know what mic to mic a flute with. :)
 
Allmost forgot

I did a Yes cover, a little while ago, and DavidK, who actually played with Yes, gave me some pointers. Thanks David.

This place is too coo!!


GT
 
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