Gain staging is the most critical things we should learn to keep the integrity and quality of our audio recordings.

Tel me what you think? Anything I forgot? 

In this video I talk about how to deal with it in your DAW.

You can do a mix of this song on your own:

Hey i came across this site looking for a way to get the new Tool album in full quality. A bit on the pricey side $20, but they offer it in 96k/24 bit. Some are even 192k. I was surprised they had some indie label stuff too. Its cool to be able to hear the actual master of a song as it was upon completion, no dither, no SRC, no format side effects.

I was wondering if anyone had any experience with posting free downloads of demos on their websites that are cover songs.

My group is working on a demo CD of jazz and latin standards. Since we will not be selling this particular CD, only giving it away as a sample of us - what are the copyright issues?