There are retired professional sound engineers here offering free advice and I am just soaking it all up.
There certainly are and we lost a few amazing ones ( example Harvey Gerst) due to a few bad apples that have since gotten the permanent Ban. Like Track Rat I came here in 99 seeking knowledge on how to pull off recordings in the box. As he noted when David "Dragon" Fiedler established HR.com there was a mere pittance of places to go to figure this shit out... 23 years later my how things have changed and how easy it has become...but still the same dilemma, garbage in garbage out ...whats a hack to do? Dang!
Prime Time replaced what actually put HR.Com on the map. The Dragon Cave. That is now a section of this BBS that is sadly deleted and gone for all time. IMO a terribly bad decision made by the new owners and mods of the time. All because of the bad apples that in the end got the permanent Ban ..Unlike many old web sites that you can look up on the time machine searches, the Dragon Cave was a members only login protected forum within HR.com. If you weren't logged in, you could visit all the rest of the HR.com forums but not post..The Cave however was only viewable to logged in members.. David did this because as he described it, it was an internet biker bar of sorts where freedom of speech reigned. So the spiders that collect all that data were not able to take the snapshots of what went on in there thus you can find nothing of the dragon cave on the internets. You will find mentions of it but when you click the links there in nothing because the pages were not recorded...Some incredible threads funny as hell, dramatic and sad as hell. It was awesome and soon became the watering hole of all of us like minded crazy musicians to shoot the shit, give each other shit and in the end become a collective of knuckleheaded musicians from all around the world that became internet buds. We had Jamfest where we would congregate in real world and jam....You had to be incredibly idiotic to get a spanking for what you posted in the Cave. Nothing was off the table swear words, nudity
I mentioned The Cave is what put HR,Com on the map. Dragon hated the fact that he had built this site to discuss recording and 90+% of the traffic was happening in the cave..WTF? He wanted to kill the Cave but fortunately didn't to his betterment..See all that traffic put him on the map and gave HR.Com advertising value $$$$$$ start to see the picture...Yep Audiofanzine came in and made David an offer he couldn't refuse and here we are today owned by a music merchandising company. They have been very cool about letting this site continue and the mods are great guys most all are volunteers. Don't always agree with them but they let Prime Time ( Which Dragon created as a PG version of the Cave for his girlfriend at the time) become the new watering hole.
So all these years later there are a ton of places one can go to learn just about anything you want about any kind of equipment or software you might use to record audio.
That said there are a lot of really knowledgeable folks that hang here and that are extremely generous and kind in sharing their knowledge with those who need a little lift up.
I still learn stuff here , I have a lot to learn. That said, I totally come here way more often just to shoot the shit with like minded musician buds ..We are a strange group and I enjoy the craziness of it all. Some brilliant talented folks and a few dumbasses ...a PG rated Biker Bar of musicians
I have no idea why this is out there on the HR.Com server or how you would navigate to it from this BBS but when I googled David Fiedler I came up with this page ..that is on the HR.Com servers as of this moment...Below is what HR.Com looked like back in the day...logo's n all
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