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Here's a picture of my home studio.

I use some really cheap software called GuitarTrax Pro. For less than $100 it lets me record a huge number of tracks and modify them with effects.

Most of the pros still record in huge studios, but smaller artists can do some great stuff now on the cheap. Eventaully this will have an impact on the music industry.

If anyone wants to hear a tune recorded in my home studio you can check out this.

Here's a picture of my home studio.

I use some really cheap software called GuitarTrax Pro. For less than $100 it lets me record a huge number of tracks and modify them with effects.

Most of the pros still record in huge studios, but smaller artists can do some great stuff now on the cheap. Eventaully this will have an impact on the music industry.

If anyone wants to hear a tune recorded in my home studio you can check out this.

I have a website I'm working on that has reviews of Anime DVDs. People might find it interesting. It's at:

http://www.xalien.com/anime/

Hope you like it.

I've been putting together a web-site with information and reviews on DVD Anime. You can find it here:

http://www.xalien.com/anime/

Let me know what you think.

-Steve
steve@xalien.com

I've been putting together a web-site with information and reviews on DVD Anime. You can find it here:

http://www.xalien.com/anime/

Let me know what you think.

-Steve
steve@xalien.com

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Sci-fi Anime is great, but there is also cool Swords and Scorcery stuff. You might want to check out some of the following as well:

I haven't seen StarBlazers in a really long time, but I did see several episodes of Robotech (aired on my local PBS station) about a year ago. I still liked it a lot. As soon as the opening theme music started playing I almost got teary eyed. Sometimes these things are almost as good as you remember them to be.

My friends and I have a running joke about the wave motion gun. You see it really could destroy whole planets (I think it even detroyed a small star during one episode), but only when the plot allowed for it. If Deslok's ship was hit with the wave motion gun it would merely be damaged (because we couldn't kill off the main villian so easily). When the Comet Empire was hit with dozens of blast from Wave motion guns at once it wasn't even damaged! Now whenever we see a movie or a TV show that has inconsistencies like this we refer to the Wave Motion Gun Effect.

I like Lain. Lain is not only great anime, it's some of the best cyberpunk ever put on film. With the exception of the Matrix (and a few other Anime features like Ghost in the Shell) it's the only good Cyberpunk available (BladeRunner had punk, but no cyber). I haven't finished watching the whole thing yet (I just ordered the thrid disk) but I'm still enthralled. If you haven't seen it you should get it. The pacing is a little show at first, but it's deep, challenging and fun!

Although it is hard to come by the original Robotech series, Robotech was based on a Japanese series called Macross (at least the first part). There are two "sequels" to Macross you can get on DVD. The better set is called Macross Plus. Well worth checking out. The animation for Macross Plus is far better than the original Robotech stuff, although the plot isn't quite as compelling.

What does OAV mean? I see this term all the time in association with anime. Is it an acronym?