ATom2

I'm the "digital" answer however I guess I'm also under the "hard disk" answer also.

It was alright, but that synth had too low of a LFO setting.

Q. What does a guy use if he is recording an air-guitar? A. An air compressor. Sorry....it's Friday at work.

Ooops. This may help also. http://recording.songstuff.com/articles.php?selected=41 If it doesn't, blame John.

Hi Matt, I believe what you should be looking for is a Compressor / Limiter. Compressors will give you that strong presents and a limiter wil stop you from topping the clip mark. I don't use a limiter, but I always use compression. I think Condense is the wrong word and throwing you off. Tom P.S. I personally don't work with PC software but I would think all of them have some kind of compression unit. Best of luck.

Hey Bud, I wouldn't worry about what type of player you use as you would only be using it to correct what you hear. Obviously it would do nothing to help the recording when others play it. I can't promise anything in a timely fashion, but try to e-mail me the mp3 and let me take look at it. I may, or may not be able to help. I'm thinking what you are talking about is something within the parametric EQing. If you normally mix everything roughly the same, I may be able to give you some EQ settings to guide you. Send it to paperboy@borderlandnet.net Tom

Put one of these between your thumbs and blow! Grass Man

Hey John! Playing with Audacity this morning. Cool program. I just wish I could make "on the fly" changes, but seeing as it's free, who am I to complain! Thanks a bunch! Tom

Hey people. I do all of my recording via my Roland stand alone. I also burn the CD with this unit. I then take the CD and load it into my computer for conversion to MP3. My question to you is: Will any of these software programs you are talking about allow me to manipulate the mp3 stereo file in such a way as to tweek the EQing, overall volumn, etc.? A lot of times I wish to make minor enhancements to songs that weren't quite right out of my recorder. I hope this makes sense. Thanks, Tom

Buy at least an 8track recorder. Sorry, but this would drive me mad.

Sorry I was just goofin' with ya, but up until now I wasn't sure how to help as you appear to be looking for a text book type answer. The best advise I can give you coming from a keyboard player is not to worry about how to play something but more of when and what feels and sounds interesting to you! Believe me, many a player died (musically) because they were too worried about the how part rather than what felt good. In many cases, you can simply enhance a song with a few individual notes instead of fancy chords. I know that is a wide open door, but that is how I operate. Tom

Eventually, they won't. Just a matter of time I'm sorry to say. You can quote me on that for the future. Peace, Tom

The COLOR of my underwear is never a secret. Everone who knows me know I prefer dark tones on Tuesdays. Sheesh!

I apreciate the words. I guess this is your hint that I'm behind in my monthly payments to you huh. By the way, that little system may look that way on the outside but it really is about $7000 investment give or take...

I could tell ya, but it's all my secret!

Screw you guyz. I'm taking my ball and going home!

I know what else is spelt with an A and is one word.

My thoughts on Ampcast: I'll start off first talking about the fee they charged. Actually charging $100 a year to host music was not that bad. This was to pay for unlimited storage space for what ever I wanted to put there including pictures, text, and as much music as I wanted to store. Remember, not everything I uploaded was shown on my front page. So, as far as I was concerned, money was not an issue. There was talk about having a free account for those that wanted a limited amount of space, say 3 songs or so, but that was decided against by the owners and quite frankly many of the members. The reason behind that was, we felt those that didn't want to pay were by majority those that weren't serious enough about their music to feel it was worth the cash. Sure, there may have been some fantastic musicians that simply couldn't afford the fee but by and large most were "musicians in a box"...if you know what I mean. Think back to the free accounts at MP3.com...a lot of pure junk! Download talk: During my time there, which was about 3 years, (off and on) I accumulated somewhere around 60,000 downloads/plays. Sounds like a fair amount, but not really when you break down the time. Many of those were generated during the "Rating years", which meant to me most of those downloads/listens where from folks that wanted me to do the same for them. You see, my songs for some reason were high on the charts during that time period. Not because they were all that great, but because I spent a lot of time there. I was just more noticable than others. Toward the end, about the last year, we (the active members) asked that the charting system be dropped. It just wasn't fair as far as we were concerned. Making money: When I first joined Ampcast the had a program where you were paid a small amount for each download your music received. The money to pay for that came from the advertisers. Well, we all know how well internet advertising worked. It didn't. Therefore, the money stopped coming in and that program was dropped. At that time it was decided that the individuals could now start charging for downloads. Anywhere from $.50 to $1.00. I, myself didn't participate. I guess I never felt my music was good enough to ask for the same kind of cash as the big boys. Don't get me wrong. I worked hard, and did my best, but my music was hardly studio quality. Therefore I kept my music free to those who wanted it. That pissed off many that were charging and they let me know it. My reply to them was "I guess you are not being realistic about your own music and need to ask yourself if it is worthy of an asking price! And besides, don't tell me what to do with my music" That usually shut them up as there really was no arguement they could give. Another reason that people didn't make money was it was a time consuming process for the buyer to sign up. Other factors: Ampcast had a CD program handled by a third party. I found it rather difficult to set up, so I never used it. Some of those that did said it was a great program. Those that had things go wrong with the program and asked for help were often ingnored...specially toward the end. It is true, toward the end the owners simply gave up, and in a way I can't blame them as this OMD was not a money maker for them. They had promised to "revolutionize" the OMD industry, but in all reality, it was sunk even before they started. I guess for Chris, Jim, and the others who worked for Ampcast it was time to move on. I wish them well. My reason for leaving? Easy actually. My musical thoughts just dried up. There was no reason to pay for hosting when I had nothing new to offer. The other thing that soured me was all the back patting that was going on. Many people had convinced themselves that Ampcast was the greatest thing going, and all the time I was standing back and seeing that it was going down hill. Then there was Frank! Probably the biggest loudmouth supporter of Ampcast there was. If you disagreed, or complained, he'd let you know it. You see, Frank was Wolfman Jacks sidekick in radio way back when, and I guess he never came down from his cloud. I detested his greater than thou attitude. I'm sure you can all relate to someone like that. Anyway, like I said, I thank the owners of Ampcast for the good times, and I'll forget the rest. It was a good run fella's. Tom P.S. Spellchecking and grammer checking were not used in the above. I'm too lazy.

You know, even though I disagreed with the operators at Ampcast and eventually left, this really bothers me. Once again, the power of the internet proves to be not that powerful. Tom

H., Why the hell do you always stick your damn foot in your mouth. You like the taste of leather? Anyway, I will only say this, I am so glad I use a stand alone recording unit. That PC stuff seems like a lot of trouble. Tom

I have an external cd-rw drive. Just a tad slower than the built in ones. At this point I have enough drink coasters for a wedding of 300.

I'm not going to be any help in this discussion as I use all external sound sources, i.e. my keyboards, and record directly into my stand alone Roland unit. It was rather expensive initially, but I don't need to rely on all that software, plug-ins, PC etc... I do absolutely no work via a PC. I just plug and go! Sorry, Tom

It's a good thing you replied to your own statement cause I was this close....

I realize cost is a big thing, but for great sound for the cost, you may want to rethink. Less is often...less.

First off, I'm kind of partial in this discussion. I am of course a long time keyboard player. I bought the following keyboard a few years back for $1400. It is a very good keyboard and now it is also cheap. http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/g=key/...ase_pid/705536/ It is a sturdy board with a large selection of sounds. As far as I'm concerned, you can always waork around the monitor area, but keys are a must. Tom