Some thoughts about what's happening to the art of recording, mixing, creating new sounds... Seems to me that for an increasing number of producers/engineers/whatever the most important thing is to be able to recall mixes and settings, and that priority is on convenient solutions that might result in less thrilling productions and mixes. Some examples

After a series of crashes I have run out of authorization disks. How do I go about getting a new one, or "recharging" the old ones?

Hi john

I have been a fan of this board for quite some time now. I think that the Engineers on here are some of the best I have ever had the pleasure of learning from.

hi,

i have installed a Zalman flower cooler on 2.4ghz P4PE.
as i like (and need) a quiet computer, i've set the fan mate to silent mode but the mobo'hardware monitor doesn't like it and detects an error and windowsXP won't boot up unless i "ignore" (F1).

I am curious what the folks who just upgraded to Nuendo 2.0 really think of thier new investment. Honestly! Not hype. I use 1.6.1. Not sure if i can justify the upgrade. I would go to the stienberg forum but I would rather get your take. They seem to have a lot of Whine to go with thier cheese right now.

for a slide show I'm putting together.
I have a bunch of ideas, but I figured some of y'all might have a trick up your sleeve.

OR/AND- a song about dreams and achieving your dreams.

THANKS!

JZ

Call me stupid, but I bought a laptop for the purpose of recording on the move. This thing's integrated audio card has recording capabilities of a drunk sheep. No matter what I do, it has a frequency response of like up to 4kHz and a constant noise floor of -30dB.

Are there any USB or Firewire solutions for this? Like Creative's USB-based Extigy, but more economic?

I'm having an argument with my friend about this song. I say the whole song is acoustic, even the heavy crashing choruses. He says there is clean electric guitar in the chorus, possibly even distorted too.

What do you guys think? Is there any info on the net about what guitars were actually used on it, or the production techniques used or the making of any Led Zeppelin album

...i have the win 2k instaled in one partition of 1.5G. but i have on disc of 40G...how can i use the rest of gigas for installing the programs...actualy how can i configure this rest of gigas in one partition?
thanks

I tried Micing my Hiwatt Custom 100 and going direct with my PRS straight into the board through boxes and onboard effects, yet when it comes to a nice grinding, crunch sound I end up witha buzzy overdistorted guitar. Is there some magical piece of equipment I am failing to run it through?