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First, nobody ever called the poster stupid. Second, debate is a very large part of an online forum. It's almost THE point. This is a very civil forum in my opinion. I don't think it's a very good guide to mastering, but there's no reason you can't try the methods suggested. As for any possible decline in the forum. As far as I remember it's ALWAYS been overrun with gear questions and "What interface should I buy for $100." Which is fine, there are other forums, I visit several.

You can only use one ASIO driver at one time. So, no, you probably can't do that. You can possibly use two interfaces if they have the same driver (i.e. you have two of the same interface). I still wouldn't say it's a guarantee though. I've heard of people using two firepods.

ess-pee-dee-eye-eff, again I just say each letter.

Really? "daw rhymes with saw" is so weird. I guess I'm not into the whole brevity thing, El Fletcherino. Good to know though.

I thought this was funny, but maybe I'm in the minority. I recently started using Ableton Live and I was watching the videos on their website. At one point he said "like any other DAW" but he pronouced it like a word (as in it rhymed with "saw"). It just sounded so stupid to me because I've actually never heard anyone say it out loud. When I read it I always think of the individual letters (as in D. A. W.). I've never been too fond of the word anyway because its too general though I do use it when typing at times. I mean its a lot quicker to type DAW software than recording software, but DAW by it self could mean software, your rig as a whole, a standalone recorder. I was just curious if this is yet another thing I've been mispronouncing because I rarely talk with other people in person about recording (I've still never heard anyone say AKAI aloud, lol, yet I've been familiar with their products for a long time). Until 3 or 4 years ago, Neve and Neumann had me fooled. But, anyway, how do YOU say it?

Committing. With all the options all of a DAW setup (not even counting what happens BEFORE the DAW) I tend to go overboard with the possibilities and end up taking really long doing anything. I'm getting better at that though.

It's strange. I used to like to play with the graphic EQ in my car. Now I think the car stereo sounds best flat!! I turn the bass down just a notch. Some of the stuff I listen to already has a hefty bottom end, and with such a small space that bass just bounces around everywhere. One of my pet peeves is when somebody has so much bass at such a high volume that miscellaneous parts on the car rattle to the point of making an audible buzz on every bass transient. I mean when you're a couple hundred feet away and you can hear somebody's tailpipe, undercarriage or whatever rattling that's just retarded. Don't get me wrong, I LOOOOVE low end, which is exactly why I try not to distort it to hell.

Originally posted by ZKAUdio ------------------------------------------------------------------------- And for our New Egg proponents they are good but even they aren't the cheapest and I don't buy from them too often. Where do you suggest? I'm not all that up on computers anymore, but I'm going to start putting a new system together starting today as I've received my tax return. I've always gone to Pricewatch.com to find what I want. It seems to find small companies that sell certain things cheaper than New Egg, although New egg is frequently a good price.

Originally posted by blue2blue *(My turntable's in storage buried deep in my garage as are my 1200 vinyl LPs -- my beachside flat is just too small; the album wasn't available on my subscription service, either.) If you're looking to sell any of that vinyl, let me know.

Originally posted by twostone To loud means your to dam old stage7 Yea I know what you mean (hearing loss).huh wadasay Can you posabley try too use a little grammer and spellin. Nobody is perfect, but you're starting to resemeble somebody that I haven't seen around the forum in a bit.

Originally posted by Monkey see Alright, thanks. Just one more question before I start. Don

Try to get the amp up off the floor and away from the walls a little. Be careful with the two mics. Or at least make sure they're on seperate tracks so you can see if you're losing anything by blending them. As said, if you can spend the money, renting a good amp and maybe a good pre and D/A wouldn't be bad. But, if you like your tone already then you're good to go. Keep in mind you might not need as much distortion as you think. Placement is all about the sound you prefer. Move it around and see what you like. Just for reference, what I like to do (when using a close 57) is put the mic about an inch away at the outside of the cone but pointing towards the center of the speaker (around a 45 deg angle roughly). At least thats where I start for a standard sound, and then tweak from there. Understand that if you have the mic an inch away its going to sound different than how it sounds in the room when you're 5-10 feet away listening with two ears (the mic has one). Isolating headphones help. Rock.

I believe fruity loops lets you, but I remember there being a little bit of a latency that made it tough.

Wow, dude. You're definitely doing something wrong. hit the button once. On the topic, the title uses the word production. Are we differentiating the words production from recording? I consider them to be in SOME cases to be two different things. For instance, with older technology sometimes people may say that it sounds like a rough recording because of the medium, but the production was amazing because of the way people got around their limitations. I just figured I'd throw that out there so we can be sure of what we're talking about. I mean if something sounds horribly lo-fi but thats what you were trying to do then its still a good production right? Or if it sounds really rough fidelity-wise compared to todays standards, but sounded amazing fidelity-wise when it was made, then its still a good production right?

Does anybody from the recording forum remember the guy that did the St. Anger spoof? Shortly after the album came out, some guy on the recording forum recorded something that was either a spoof of a specific song or just something in that style and i think it somehow ended up on some LA radio stations. Anyway, the funny part (besides how it sounded) was that when he posted a pic of drum setup he used, his snare drum was a metal chair. And yeah i reccomend everbody watch that Some Kind of Monster DVD for the pure humor of it (especially if you're not a metallica fan).