Which magazine is THE magazine for home recording?

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ZE MAGAZINE OF YOUR CHOICE!!!

  • Mix

    Votes: 1 5.6%

  • Prosound

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • EQ

    Votes: 3 16.7%

  • Electronic Musician

    Votes: 2 11.1%

  • Home Recording

    Votes: 4 22.2%

  • other (please specify in thread of which one)

    Votes: 8 44.4%
  • Total voters
    18
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musicsdarkangel

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Alright, I'm looking to learn how to home record better, and to learn about audio more, but mainly learn to make nice mixes and do it nicely!!, learn about effects, equipment, and allll probably electronic. (i will do acoustic stuff of course, but my computer is where it all happens). Give me YO opinion on which magazine i should subcribe to!
 
Sound on Sound

Being in Europe the only mag I'm familiar with in your list is EQ.
You should check out Sound on Sound, a good british mag. A lot better than EQ in my opinion...Only drawback is that they tend to be very generous in their equipment reviews, they never dislike anything...
 
Tape Op, hands down. Not really a "home recording magazine", but not exactly a big studio magazine either. Plus, it's free. I find myself constantly inspired by this publication.

http://www.tapeop.com

EQ is also a pretty good magazine, but it's too gear oriented and is poorly organized. My girlfriend got me a subscription to Home Recording and it's not bad, but it's getting worse and worse all the time. Very watered down and a LOT of advertisements. I have some books by sound on sound editor paul white and they're very good...I wish they had that mag around here.

Slackmaster 2000
 
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I get EQ and Tape OP. My fav is EQ because its geared towards bigwig sound, which is what I like. Sound on sound is cool, and you can read it free, if a little dated, on the web site, BUT, they really are too generous with the reviews, Everything is great to them.
 
The thing with magazines is that youll pick up a tip here and there, but it wont be chock full of the most useful info from cover to cover...you might want to consider a thread on the best book for learning.....

The Art of Mixing by David Gibson

BTW, I regularly read EQ, Electronic Musician, Home Recording, Recording, and TapeOp.....when they have a good CD included, Ill get Sound on Sound and Computer Music (both UK based)....
 
I should've mentioned that Prorec is a webzine. Of actual print magazines, that's a tough call. Each offer a lot to any beginner. I think that when you have a thirst for knowledge for a topic, it really doesn't matter what magazine you pick up. I tend to buy magazines based on a particular interest. For example...

If I'm obsessing about small diaphram condensers and EQ has a SDC mic shootout, I'll buy it.

Read them all.
 
I agree with you on that. I do the same. However, musicsdarkangel says he's looking for something to subscribe to. That's an even tougher call that I will not dare do. Too easy to be disappointed. Too bad Tapeop is not free for foreigners.

Good thread. Great links.
 
AW crap, that's what I was forgetting..I had sound on sound there too, but i forgot to post.

Hey, I just got like 2 tape op's the last 2 months, is subcription free?? Because i'm gettin em.

And yea, sound on sound is nice.

Personally, so far, I think I like electronic musician, but you see, I've only gotten one issue of it (the 2001 buyer's guide). GREAT STUFF. Then it teaches you nice mixes crap like that, so thats nice, same with EQ. Yea Home Recording Mag is like Guitar One for guitars, too many adds, and when you get to a certain point, its sorta newbie.

OH WELL, heh i'll check em all out, but keep voting!!!!!! We need a mag rumble here.
 
oh btw,
I have an interest in pretty much music period, computer recording, soundcards (sorta), just recording all the instruments directly to cubase and inserting some effects to clean it up. COMPUTER!! AHAHAHAHA
 
You're on speed again, aren't you? :D

I like Electronic Musician slightly more than the others, because they seem to have a slightly higher number of articles that I can learn interesting stuff from. I like their review style, too. But I read all of 'em - browse and choose the one that's begging to be taken home.
 
Not to be repetitive, but...TAPE OP!
To add my input, I think Tape Op is the only recording magazine that comes close to being helpful to the beginning/amateur/cheap home recorder. Everything else I've read seems to be geared to those with thousands of dollars to spend. Plus they interview people to tend to record the bands that I like (independent bands) from smaller studios. Plus, as mentioned above, it's free.
 
There is more usable information in Electronic Musician than any other magazine I've found. I have every issue going back about 15 years and it's been an amazing resource. Some issues have nothing of interest but then all of the sudden they will put out one with lots of cool articles.

I like Sound on Sound for other reasons and find it an interesting read. I love how they feature amateurs in their home studios.

I believe you can get EQ Magazine online without subscribing to it.....in other words it's free !
 
I like Mix a lot... however, it's pretty much an industry trade mag with little revelence to most of the home market.

There's also Studio Sound - the British recording industry trade mag.

Home Recording I find is very basic... but good for beginners. Lately Recording fits somewhere between EQ and Home Recording - has some interesting stuff sometimes but a lot of "icing". EQ is pretty good overall... Sound On Sound I find too advert-heavy and doesn't have enough concrete info - lots of icing.

All mags seem to be far too forgiving when critiquing gear - I think you get more honest (if opinionated) critiques from forums such as this.

Bruce
 
I dig eg for the live sound, home recording for DIY projects, recording for the instudstry stuff, Sound on Sound for honest review of stuff.
 
My 2 cents for what it's worth -

If Bruce hadn't said it already, I was going to say that Mix is pretty serious and usually over my head. But it's worth it to look through just for the awsome studio pictures (i.e. everything I cant afford). It's like porn for the recording engineer.

The most useful magazine to me has been Home Recording. Like you all have said it's pretty basic but that's what I wanted at the time.

Electronic Musician seems like a nice magazine but is really more into MIDI and electronic keyboards, not much info in it for a guy like me who records a guitar-based rock band.

... and those are all the mags I've checked out lately.

However I did buy the book Behind the Glass, a collection of short interviews with great producers from England and the U.S. I heard about it on this board actually. I just started reading it, from what I've read so far the author does seem to be asking some questions specifically of interest to the home producer. Looks like a good resource to pick up.
 
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