I just finished my little DIY project, the PAIA 6-channel headphone amp. I was surprised as heck that it actually worked when I plugged it in! It felt like that scene in Castaway where Tom Hanks is like, "Look what I have made, I have made fire!" Although to be honest, channels 3 & 5 are in mono for some reason. :?

I wanted to know what you guys think a cool name would be for my productions. I always enjoy reading what others have to say here on RO. And I know you guys/gals can come up with some good ones. I am gonna make some business cards and try to keep the name once it is started.

I wanted to know when you guys think I should file for a business license? I have been investing in this studio for over 3 years now. I have enough recording gear to get out there and start recording bands, but I have stayed away from the whole "business aspect" because I didn't want to have to learn about taxes and such just quite yet.

They came in on Monday, I left them running all day and night playing music to break them in (per the manual). Tuesday I only listened to CD's on them, to get a feel for them, Tuesday night I pulled up an old mix in PT, deleted all the inserts and started (fairly) fresh on it.

I love these things.

If anyone can help me. I am building a house. I want to have a full studio incorporated into the blueprints. My question is how big should the area be. I know that i want to have a separate ctrl room, pre-pro area, a booth big enough to hold a band and some smaller vocal booths. Does anyone have any recommendations? The house is should be btw 10 and 16000sq.

Hey there,
Here is the situation: My friend's band has put together a demo video of clips of them playing various songs which they did not write but each clip is under 30 seconds. Would rolayties have to be paid to put this video on their website? I'm thinking yes, but am not sure.

Thanks for your input,
-Joel

hey guys, just got Acid Pro and tons o samples from a friend of mine. I was wondering if anyone would care to share some basics of this process. I've figured out how to put in a groove, loop it and build upon it etc but how about building the groove and thowing it into Nuendo for further over dubs? is this common?

Hiya...

was just wondering if anyone could recommend to me any hi quality drum sample packages to use in my home studio? I'm runnin a mac g4 with Pro Tools, looking for something a bit vintage and organic sounding as I'd also like to use it as a backing track to help improve my bass playing!

cheers!

Hey,
If I mike a snare with say an sm 57 and i use a dish like object to cover the rear end of the microphone, will most of the high frequency leakage from the hi hats get cancelled out due to the dish like obstruction.

Does anybody have suggestions as to buying ACID loops
for swing, standards, and jazz styles? I have been on Ebay, and no one seems to offer tasty mainstream quality loops...