Crucial phrase is "to those in the trade"! The information is
extremely easy to find - just common knowledge, in fact - to those
who still are, but I'm not sure that it is easy at all for those who
are not. Perhaps it's not so surprising that audiophiles in the
latter group seem to know so little about the former. And, as you
imply, the demands on home studio stuff are nothing like those made
by the standards of professional broadcasting or recording (and your
image of musicians playing to themselves in home recording studios
rather than gigging produces a reflex response of: "It'll make them
go blind, you know.")
Anyway, thanks for the suggestions. Very handy. Perhaps at last I can
now find out what software is as cheap, precise and fast as a block,
some splicing tape and a well-wielded razor blade!
On 18 Sep 2006, at 23:17, Pat Farrell wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't now find the information is that easy to acquire. Neither
record companies nor broadcasters exactly encourage the public to
mooch into a studio and play around. Any suggestions, Pat?
Get subscribed to some trade rags. Mix is free to those in the
trade, as is TapeOp. Sound-on-sound from the UK is the most
valuable of those aimed a home-studio folks, of the magazines that
I've read and had to pay for. I don't think much of most of the
magazines for 'home recording' that are available at your local
Borders.
Most of the home-studio folks are not interested in high quality
recordings, the owners all think that they will be the next band to
become as rich as The Beatles. They would be a lot better off
working gigs in bars and learning to make music, rather than
worrying over which $300 microphone is 'best'.
One fairly good website is gearslutz.com
sometimes useful is http://www.prosoundweb.com/forums/
--
Pat
http://www.pfarrell.com/music/slimserver/slimsoftware.html
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