pro-audio knowledge and the linux cause [Re: [linux-audio-user] Preach it! [was: Re: [linux-audio-user] Re: Behringer etc.]]

[Joe Hartley]

On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 13:16:23 +0100
Frank Barknecht <fbar at footils.org> wrote:
> TapeOp looks like a nice magazine. However from glimpsing over their
> webpage and from reading the term "pro audio" here, it always seems to
> involve some kind of recording business.

A lot of what they do at TapeOp is geared to people who do this for a
living, but it's almost always from a ground-up approach.  They interview
a lot of small studio owners who started recording with a Fostex 4-track
and just kept going, and they're slanted towards people trying to do this
onthe cheap.  (Unlike, say, Mix.)

They occasionally have DIY articles (this month has a mod for Oktava
ribbon mics), and drool over the same unattainable gear as the rest
of us :)

Sure, they're focusing on people doing this for a living, but it gives
me a chance to find out what people who know more about this stuff than
I do handle things.  I've learned how to record drums with 3 mics,
how to mic a guitar amp, and how to deal with click tracks.  Mix would
never deign to stoop to that level.  (I've always thought that Mix 
should have a note on the cover "You must have 24 channels or more to
buy this magazine.")

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