From: owner-wanderer-digest@smoe.org (wanderer-digest) To: wanderer-digest@smoe.org Subject: wanderer-digest V2 #24 Reply-To: wanderer@smoe.org Sender: owner-wanderer-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-wanderer-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk wanderer-digest Saturday, March 23 2002 Volume 02 : Number 024 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Stuck in a tuning [Patti Witten ] Re: advice about home recording [Patti Witten ] Re: advice about home recording [Susan McNamara ] Re: advice about home recording [Susan McNamara ] RE: Stuck in a tuning ["Kate Bennett" ] RE: advice about home recording ["Kate Bennett" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 07:31:38 -0500 From: Patti Witten Subject: Stuck in a tuning > speaking of being stuck in one tuning!...yikes...it has been forever that i > have been captive by joni's tuning cgdegc...i have written so many songs in For me it was DADGAD for about 15 months, now morphing to DADF#AE. All versions of drop D are welcome in my repertoire. It suits my vocal range. Patti - -- Patti Witten http://pattiwitten.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 07:35:00 -0500 From: Patti Witten Subject: Re: advice about home recording Sue, a simple 4-track is good as some have suggested. Maybe it's also been suggested already, but my next tool will be a DAT recorder, simple stereo. Line out to my computer. Pro Tools Free version (ugh I have to learn something new). Burn CDs for demos. Voila. > was wondering if you technoids out there could tell a poor person > what the most effective and inexpensive way of recording songs would Patti - -- Patti Witten http://pattiwitten.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 07:54:07 -0500 From: Susan McNamara Subject: Re: advice about home recording Thanks Mark. I would love that AG article. sue >I agree with people's statements about getting an all-in-one gizmo >from people like Roland or Tascam. If you want to go the hard copy >route, get one with a SCSI out so you can hook up a CD burner to it. >Acoustic Guitar did a really well done article about the home studio >a few years ago. I can snail mail the article to you, Sue. > >Any dynamic microphone will do for vocals. They'll run you less than >$75. And you can just plug your guitar pickup into the recorder and >you're all set. Oh, and you'll need a mic stand for your vocals too. > >I don't have any real qualms with MiniDisc - the compression is >negliable IMO but I do think they run higher in price than the hard >disk recorders. > >Mark >NP-Talking Heads, Life During Wartime - -- "Heart and humor and humility will lighten up your heavy load ... " - Joni Mitchell ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 07:55:40 -0500 From: Susan McNamara Subject: Re: advice about home recording Thanks, Patti! I feel I'm getting closer to a goal!! :-) >Sue, a simple 4-track is good as some have suggested. Maybe it's also been >suggested already, but my next tool will be a DAT recorder, simple stereo. >Line out to my computer. Pro Tools Free version (ugh I have to learn >something new). Burn CDs for demos. Voila. > >> was wondering if you technoids out there could tell a poor person >> what the most effective and inexpensive way of recording songs would > >Patti > >-- >Patti Witten >http://pattiwitten.com - -- "Heart and humor and humility will lighten up your heavy load ... " - Joni Mitchell ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 10:44:39 -0800 From: "Kate Bennett" Subject: RE: Stuck in a tuning people keep singing the praises of dadgad & for some reason i haven't ventured there yet but thanks for the reminder patti! that morph sounds intruiging too! many moons ago when i was a 12 string grrl, i used to play lots of drop d, double drop d & what i think is called g tuning...alt tuning is so pretty with all those strings... patti or anyone out there performing on acoustic...when you are performing, do you also play in regular tuning...& do you bring 2 guitars or just retune? i am at the stage where i want to start playing more of my alt tuning songs but the responsibility of 2 guitars (& all that goes with it) per performance is daunting to me...i have decent guitars but its so nice only dealing with one of them as far as upkeep goes...so i may do my alt songs as a separate set for now....(being sure to keep the strings new to avoid breaking them) ******************************************** Kate Bennett www.katebennett.com sponsored by Polysonics Discover the Indies at Taylor Guitars: http://www.taylorguitars.com/artists/awp/indies/bennett.html ******************************************** - -----Original Message----- From: owner-wanderer@smoe.org [mailto:owner-wanderer@smoe.org]On Behalf Of Patti Witten Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 4:32 AM To: wanderer@smoe.org Subject: Stuck in a tuning > speaking of being stuck in one tuning!...yikes...it has been forever that i > have been captive by joni's tuning cgdegc...i have written so many songs in For me it was DADGAD for about 15 months, now morphing to DADF#AE. All versions of drop D are welcome in my repertoire. It suits my vocal range. Patti - -- Patti Witten http://pattiwitten.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 10:44:44 -0800 From: "Kate Bennett" Subject: RE: advice about home recording we have a dat & have used it to record live stuff which is fun & it basically sounds really good, except its frustrating cuz we can't mix ... ******************************************** Kate Bennett www.katebennett.com sponsored by Polysonics Discover the Indies at Taylor Guitars: http://www.taylorguitars.com/artists/awp/indies/bennett.html ******************************************** ------------------------------ End of wanderer-digest V2 #24 *****************************