On Thu, 09 Feb, 2006 at 01:51PM +0100, Arnold Krille spake thus:
> 2006/2/9, james@email-addr-hidden-dot-dat.net <james@email-addr-hidden-dot-dat.net>:
> > One day, I'll spend some money and get a soundcard that costs more
> > than 20 quid and speakers that were meant for more than Doom. Then
> > maybe I'll stick with a track long enough to produce something
> > polished.
>
> From my (limited) experience: Start learning to polish before you buy
> new equipment!
> Often we think "If I have this and that, all we go easily" but the
> truth is that all the technical gimmicks like soundcards, speakers,
> preamps, amps, micorphones are just tools. If you know what you are
> doing you can get the best possible out of the most crappy hardware.
> If you don't know what you are doing, it won't get any better with
> speakers that cost 1000? each.
>
> Start polishing, mastering, etc before you decide which new gear you buy...
You're right, of course. It's just hard to master properly when I
have to leave go into a different room to hear it without cracks a
pops and crunches on real speakers.
> And continue to make music!
>
> Arnold
>
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