I'll be checking this place, but from now on, I think all of my posts will end up on www.robotcousin.com

Thanks for reading.

Entry to the LG Short Film festival. Animation by Curtis Carey, music by me! Whoo! Here's hoping LG likes it. (Crossposted to www.robotcousin.com and FB)

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I don't think there's anyone on here who doesn't already know, but for posterity...

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This is how it should have happened...

 Good luck you to Nova Scotians. Here's hoping Bill's not that bad.

Ok, so I get what an MSRP price is. Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price. What normally happens is the manufacturer puts out an MSRP, and then distributors/vendors sell it for a fair deal lower. So, if something had an MSRP of $1000, you could probably find it for around $800.

The M-Audio Microtrack II has an MSRP of $649.99 CDN. Long & Mcqaude is selling them for $250!!!!!

If anyone is interested in a good personal recorder, I would seriously suggest checking it out.

 http://www.robotcousin.com/download.html

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Current Music: Nothing Fancy.

Brand new album from me, comin' soon (as in Next Week).

Free like free beer.

 Oh dear. My head/heart/ears hurt.

A friend of mine who's been a musician for a while finally got everything put together, and took his guitar, and his drummer to a "studio" here in NB (no names). I'm listening to the final product.

Dear god.

I don't blame the friend at all. He's telling me what went on in the recording session (that went longer than it ever should), and I find it hard to fathom how the "engineer" can charge for what he's given them. Really, the only bonus the guy offered over what my friend already had was that he had a mixing desk, and more than a few mics.

Were they good mics? From the sounds of it, not remotely. Did the guy know proper placement? Three-to-one rule? 

Again, doesn't sound like it. I listened to an "edited" version, apparently, and didn't know it had been touched. It was next-to-butchered.

I would love for nothing more than to have a recording facility of my own, but asking the government for money at this stage of the economic tragedy we all seem to be players in seems rather pointless. I may give it another go. I'd never aim to record bands (I'd focus more on post-production for film), but even if I ended up with SOMETHING, I'm sure I could pull it together much more cohesively than what they had to endure. I'd give them a free session or two just to make up for all of that.

I don't know everything about recording, but I do know enough that I could easily record rings around this guy. And he's the one with the studio. Something is wrong.

 Holy shit I hate the Ting Tings.

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