Ive been very slowly putting together a blog oriented website to follow my home studio and music making projects. I've become most definately one of the biggest fans of Ardour and Linux audio, and have built my studio around it. http://nostar.net/ I figured now was a good time to post the site on LAU since this week we took quite an interesting turn. My anti-digital, refugee from the 60's, guitar genius bandmate finally coersed me into the analog realm. The fact that he bought all this hi-end analog gear sure helped too, this stuff just looks cool! (insert Tim Allen grunt here). Not as a replacement though, but rather as an addition to the input chain; to be used as an 'effect'. We are going to beat this one to death, it's gonna get real ugly! We are going to do some totally digital free recordings; then recording all tracks to the analog deck, and output them track-by-track to ardour; then record direct to ardour, output track-by-track to the deck, and back to ardour again. I'm also going to experiment with driving the signal into the deck at various levels, trying to find the 'sweet spot'. With a little luck, this will help break down the barrier between these 2 technologies, and maybe even squash some of the stereotypes associated with the technologies used, and the people that use them. I got the ball rolling and started familiarizing myself with the machine by taking some simple exported stereo wav files, and playing them into 2 tracks of the deck, then recording back to Ardour. Samples are available on the site. I was pretty impressed with the outcome. As far as the music is concerned, for the past year or so, it's been the 2 of us doing drums and guitar live, in an improv fashion. We then screen thru the session looking for worthy jams to overdub bass, vocals, leads, etc. Thats the entire lineup to date in a nutshell. We just scored a bass player this week as well, so it's gig time soon! Doug -- http://nostar.net/