I can do 50 tracks simutaneous most with realtime effects with an Echo Layla (about $600) that provides the following:
Records 10 channels at once Plays back 12 channels at once Provides massive onboard DSP Word clock/Super clock I/O for sync 24-bit, 96kHz Balanced outputs High-quality headphone output ADAT Lightpipe and optical S/PDIF inputs and outputs
I wont get into mics, but with what I listed up there, I have a pretty sweet setup for just over a grand.
bring your own mics and cables, ect as this is about harware and software. That all adds quickly to the cost of recording. But I have built more than a few computers for recording.
and then the recod company will say - we were only going to spend 15 grand on the recording, but 200,000 on marketing and artist development. And then you still get screwed. But at least you kept creative control over your music. Just not eventual ownership of it, along with your band's name, likeness and mojo.
You can record it with a Walmart PC. You have been able to for 8 years now. You can use the computer your Grandomother is throwing out. I worked for a music software company for quite a few years.
for the past few years, I can tell you that it has been cheap to roll your own studio for years now. the software is negligible. You have been able to get your hands on the software cheaply, if not free and all you really worry about is a decent sound card (plan on spending a few hundred if you need simutaneous in's/out's (and WAY lower latency) and about $80 to $100 per mic.
You have been able to record 20 tracks at a time for 5 years now on most any computer, and you can get better performance with some OS tweaks.
its been pretty aparent that the music industry has been doing creative accounting since the begining. I know bands that have used $2000 worth of PC, $300 sound card, free software and some less than awesome mics, record tracks in their basement and get weeks of national radio airtime.
The thing to consider though, is that A] You still need to record good music people want to hear (to be sucessful,) and B] You still need to have a good ear to produce properly. Most bands can do neither which is why you get so many horrible contestants on a show like American Idol.
A big label might charge a mint for an album, but they also employ expensive employees, spend crazy amounts on marketing and still would like to make money. While I can't justify as high of CD prices and paying bands next to nothing, they still have the people a band needs to become sucessfull (and of course have the ins with the radio stations, which an independant just can't match). Its not JUST equiptment. If it was, bands would be making it on their own BIG TIME from their basements.
This isn't new news, its just a new article. I could record my own everything 5 years ago on a P1. With an old copy of software, you can record your own album on a computer that your friend is throwing out. Every PC can record two tracks simutaneously (with a stereo sound card and a 5 dollar plug from Radio Shack).
I suppose one theory would be that your fees on cable and DSL lines would go down as revenues are recognized from VoIP fees (by and for the government).
Its just as likely that they will create new infrastructure (buerocracy) to govern VoIP which will give them *some* reason for the new fees. Of course, its easy to justify charging you more than they need to. Then they can do some humanitarian-esqe thing like bring VoIP to farmers and fishermen and guys living under bridges to further provide support for their perpetual existance.
Instead of griping about it, think of a way you can make it pay off for you. Start your own non-profit that makes use of VoIP.
one of my best friends, the guy who got me into Linux, PHP, MYSQL, now does side work for one of the big spammers. If the email you get sent gets bounced back to them, they automatically take you off their list. The feature found in some email clients that lets you bounce the email back AFTER reading it, is one of the best ways to get yourself removed from lists.
I personally got a separate domain JUST for email. Every time I have to enter my email address somewhere new, I would submit site_name.specific_info_if_necessary@mydomain.com. Then if I start getting spam from someone using that new address, I know who sold me out. I have a catch all for the domain so all email goes to one place. It really lets you know who you can trust. Its also easy to block a specific address that you would never use again anyway to decrease your amount of spam you'd get period, never mind with spam assasin.
I also decided to get all of my family's names.com so that in 4 years, when my grandmother goes to Google my sister's name, some one hasn't decided to start buying people's name's.com and parking them on porn sites. Grandma will be shocked if my sister's name returns a video of a dirty sanchez.
Also, as my family members become more aclimated to the idea of utilizing a domain (for a site or just email) they can do so. They will thank me later.
They would at least have to record themselves saying that they were doing the test.
I know of lawyers that insisted their clients not do a voice recording, but instead insist on the conversation be transcribed in person. Often, when doing a claim over the telephone, adjusters will ask if they can record the conversation so they can refer to later. The lawyer was worried that the company (based inthe US) would do this type of test regardless.
This was about 9 years ago.
It makes me wonder what he knew to be so vehement about it.>br>
I would think that their reluctance was as a result of not being ready to track such a massive increase in traffic. If they can't track it, they don't want it to happen. Maybe they aren't done load testing. Maybe what they wrote isn't as scalable as they thought.
Websites that use JavaScript until the "programmer" is foaming coffee at the mouth should be taken out and thrown in the lake (if that were possible for a website).
I can tell you are a coder and not a manager. If my CEO wants drop down menus, he gets them and its a nightmare for me to make them work perfectly with all browsers and platforms. Opera can be a tough one.
I seriously doubt that the coder will actually spec out the project. Hell, the coder will be lucky if whomever specs out the application will be present for she/he to ask questions. This is government we are talking about.
If I am a company that has a fair share of non windows and/or non IE using customers, I must dedicate resources to make my site work for them. If I want people to spend money with me, I need to cater to them, often spending a bit of time to (say) get my site to work for Opera users. If you have captured the market (if you want to vote, you have to use the goverment's website) then the customer will use whatever software they must to do so.
Managers don't spec out plain text sites, they spec out pretty sites with layers and java drop down menus and if Macromedia 'lobbies' them enough, (in the case of a government voting website) even Flash.
I personally spend a lot of time to make sure my sites appear to be as close as possible on different platforms and browsers. Going through 5 browsers on two platforms for each page can be a bitch on a large site.
And when you make a site whos function is something so fundamentally important as voting, it makes sense that you will develop for one platform, one browser. If you mess up 10% of the votes, you have an electronic version of a dangling chad. Developing for Windows IE grabs you about 94% of your target audience in one shot. Never mind that the PC is generally what is used as a work station in most government facilities.
Now I realize that electronic voting could open some potential door for widespread cheating. But its not like our normal voting process makes sure that your vote reflects what you really want.
I know of friends who voted FOR friends before.
I don't trust some greasy dude to count my vote right (in cases where there is hand counting).
Regardless, there will always be errors in voting whether it be dangling chads or that my grandmum hits submit twice.
They are concerned about building something that works solidly and since Microsoft dominates the desktop market, it is a no brainer to target Windows IE as the single allowable browser to vote with.
Many of us know what a bitch it is to develop a code and feature intensive site that works correctly for all browsers.
It also cuts down on support issues. I have met people who are unsure of what platform they are running. "What kind of computer am I using? It says 'power' here near a button. Is that right?"
But will drivers be written for Linux that will allow for a very low latency for sound cards that windows and mac drivers provide? The lowest possible latency is necessary when recording and playing back multiple tracks of audio at one time.
For those who's survival depend upon making money through music recording, support both through industry hardware and the software itself is imperitive. For those who want to mess around with a free alternative to industry tools, Adour will be great.
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Active Protection System (APS) is a microchip put on the system board that senses acceleration.
What about decceleration? Like the sudden stop of hitting the pavement.
I can do 50 tracks simutaneous most with realtime effects with an Echo Layla (about $600) that provides the following:
Records 10 channels at once
Plays back 12 channels at once
Provides massive onboard DSP
Word clock/Super clock I/O for sync
24-bit, 96kHz
Balanced outputs
High-quality headphone output
ADAT Lightpipe and optical S/PDIF inputs and outputs
I wont get into mics, but with what I listed up there, I have a pretty sweet setup for just over a grand.
bring your own mics and cables, ect as this is about harware and software. That all adds quickly to the cost of recording. But I have built more than a few computers for recording.
and then the recod company will say - we were only going to spend 15 grand on the recording, but 200,000 on marketing and artist development. And then you still get screwed. But at least you kept creative control over your music. Just not eventual ownership of it, along with your band's name, likeness and mojo.
You can record it with a Walmart PC. You have been able to for 8 years now. You can use the computer your Grandomother is throwing out. I worked for a music software company for quite a few years.
Want details? Ask me.
for the past few years, I can tell you that it has been cheap to roll your own studio for years now. the software is negligible. You have been able to get your hands on the software cheaply, if not free and all you really worry about is a decent sound card (plan on spending a few hundred if you need simutaneous in's/out's (and WAY lower latency) and about $80 to $100 per mic.
You have been able to record 20 tracks at a time for 5 years now on most any computer, and you can get better performance with some OS tweaks.
its been pretty aparent that the music industry has been doing creative accounting since the begining. I know bands that have used $2000 worth of PC, $300 sound card, free software and some less than awesome mics, record tracks in their basement and get weeks of national radio airtime.
The thing to consider though, is that
A] You still need to record good music people want to hear (to be sucessful,) and
B] You still need to have a good ear to produce properly. Most bands can do neither which is why you get so many horrible contestants on a show like American Idol.
A big label might charge a mint for an album, but they also employ expensive employees, spend crazy amounts on marketing and still would like to make money. While I can't justify as high of CD prices and paying bands next to nothing, they still have the people a band needs to become sucessfull (and of course have the ins with the radio stations, which an independant just can't match). Its not JUST equiptment. If it was, bands would be making it on their own BIG TIME from their basements.
This isn't new news, its just a new article. I could record my own everything 5 years ago on a P1. With an old copy of software, you can record your own album on a computer that your friend is throwing out. Every PC can record two tracks simutaneously (with a stereo sound card and a 5 dollar plug from Radio Shack).
I suppose one theory would be that your fees on cable and DSL lines would go down as revenues are recognized from VoIP fees (by and for the government).
Its just as likely that they will create new infrastructure (buerocracy) to govern VoIP which will give them *some* reason for the new fees. Of course, its easy to justify charging you more than they need to. Then they can do some humanitarian-esqe thing like bring VoIP to farmers and fishermen and guys living under bridges to further provide support for their perpetual existance.
Instead of griping about it, think of a way you can make it pay off for you. Start your own non-profit that makes use of VoIP.
one of my best friends, the guy who got me into Linux, PHP, MYSQL, now does side work for one of the big spammers. If the email you get sent gets bounced back to them, they automatically take you off their list. The feature found in some email clients that lets you bounce the email back AFTER reading it, is one of the best ways to get yourself removed from lists.
. Then if I start getting spam from someone using that new address, I know who sold me out. I have a catch all for the domain so all email goes to one place. It really lets you know who you can trust. Its also easy to block a specific address that you would never use again anyway to decrease your amount of spam you'd get period, never mind with spam assasin.
.com so that in 4 years, when my grandmother goes to Google my sister's name, some one hasn't decided to start buying people's name's.com and parking them on porn sites. Grandma will be shocked if my sister's name returns a video of a dirty sanchez.
I personally got a separate domain JUST for email. Every time I have to enter my email address somewhere new, I would submit site_name.specific_info_if_necessary@mydomain.com
I also decided to get all of my family's names
Also, as my family members become more aclimated to the idea of utilizing a domain (for a site or just email) they can do so. They will thank me later.
Why does the Matrox card suck? I was looking for a dual + head card and I happened upon it...
They would at least have to record themselves saying that they were doing the test.
I know of lawyers that insisted their clients not do a voice recording, but instead insist on the conversation be transcribed in person. Often, when doing a claim over the telephone, adjusters will ask if they can record the conversation so they can refer to later. The lawyer was worried that the company (based inthe US) would do this type of test regardless.
This was about 9 years ago.
It makes me wonder what he knew to be so vehement about it.>br>
I would think that their reluctance was as a result of not being ready to track such a massive increase in traffic. If they can't track it, they don't want it to happen. Maybe they aren't done load testing. Maybe what they wrote isn't as scalable as they thought.
Websites that use JavaScript until the "programmer" is foaming coffee at the mouth should be taken out and thrown in the lake (if that were possible for a website).
I can tell you are a coder and not a manager. If my CEO wants drop down menus, he gets them and its a nightmare for me to make them work perfectly with all browsers and platforms. Opera can be a tough one.
I seriously doubt that the coder will actually spec out the project. Hell, the coder will be lucky if whomever specs out the application will be present for she/he to ask questions. This is government we are talking about.
If I am a company that has a fair share of non windows and/or non IE using customers, I must dedicate resources to make my site work for them. If I want people to spend money with me, I need to cater to them, often spending a bit of time to (say) get my site to work for Opera users. If you have captured the market (if you want to vote, you have to use the goverment's website) then the customer will use whatever software they must to do so.
Managers don't spec out plain text sites, they spec out pretty sites with layers and java drop down menus and if Macromedia 'lobbies' them enough, (in the case of a government voting website) even Flash.
I personally spend a lot of time to make sure my sites appear to be as close as possible on different platforms and browsers. Going through 5 browsers on two platforms for each page can be a bitch on a large site.
And when you make a site whos function is something so fundamentally important as voting, it makes sense that you will develop for one platform, one browser. If you mess up 10% of the votes, you have an electronic version of a dangling chad. Developing for Windows IE grabs you about 94% of your target audience in one shot. Never mind that the PC is generally what is used as a work station in most government facilities.
Now I realize that electronic voting could open some potential door for widespread cheating. But its not like our normal voting process makes sure that your vote reflects what you really want.
I know of friends who voted FOR friends before.
I don't trust some greasy dude to count my vote right (in cases where there is hand counting).
Regardless, there will always be errors in voting whether it be dangling chads or that my grandmum hits submit twice.
They are concerned about building something that works solidly and since Microsoft dominates the desktop market, it is a no brainer to target Windows IE as the single allowable browser to vote with.
Many of us know what a bitch it is to develop a code and feature intensive site that works correctly for all browsers.
It also cuts down on support issues. I have met people who are unsure of what platform they are running. "What kind of computer am I using? It says 'power' here near a button. Is that right?"
Dear Vasqzr,
Thank you for your inquiry. We are sorry to inform you that your install date is still classified.
Best Regards,
Your DSL Provider
a little known item is that Apple originally picked Adobe Premiere's staff clean to create FCP. Adobe has been pissed.
Funny, people name their kids the same way.
"There is no way I am naming my kid 'Mike'. I knew a guy named Mike wha was a total jerk.
Anyway, these Debian posts here for the past few days have convinced me to dive into it. Where is the best place for a Debian newbie to start?
But will drivers be written for Linux that will allow for a very low latency for sound cards that windows and mac drivers provide? The lowest possible latency is necessary when recording and playing back multiple tracks of audio at one time.
For those who's survival depend upon making money through music recording, support both through industry hardware and the software itself is imperitive. For those who want to mess around with a free alternative to industry tools, Adour will be great.
In the end, what is your time worth?
Hmm...
where can one find said great teet?
A giant breast that feeds my ReplayTV? I must have died and gone to heaven...
It would have been cool to have the internet back in the 50's as well, but it was still a glimmer in Al Gore's eye at that point.
:P
what, now I am supposed to know html so my link doesn't spread throughout my whole post?
geesh
:P
I recently got a , which has a color palm integrated. The link is to the cached page with Google as Samsung's website seems to be /.'d before my posting this.
I run Top Gun SSH and it rocks.
With my Sprint plan (It also can be used with Verizon) I get unlimited web connectivity which doesn't eat the minutes of my plan.
As funny as this is, wouldn't the "case" burst into flames the first time you defragged the hard drive?
The "bathroom effect" yields dividends.
This must be a direct result of all of the free coffee.
I have a Samsung I330 (palm based Sprint phone) and it rocks. I installed an app that lets me emulate remote controls for TV/VCR/DVD/cable boxes ect.
Boy, have I been having fun changing channels on my friends. Good clean fun.