On Thu, 09 Feb, 2006 at 01:51PM +0100, Arnold Krille spake thus: > 2006/2/9, james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > > 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 > -- "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you." (By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)
