Be careful, one can get all ied up around the equipment and miss the song. I'd hate to see you turn into yet another constant gearslutz poster, you know, all about the equipment but never actually much about the song.

"Run what ya brung"

Which is my term, borrowed from my mispent youth hanging around the Western Pennsylvania drag racing tracks, to describe the act of using what you already have at hand to its utmost, actually producing good sounding recordings with it.

Anyone who follows that line of direction will find that Providence steps in concerning the equipment and the obtaining thereof.

Write songs.

Record songs.

Rinse, repeat.

Work out in that respect, and all the rest will fall into line, you will find out exactly what you need to do as you go. There is really no sitution where you put together all this junk and then you are magically ready to start doing what you could have - and should have - been doing in the first place.


--Mac