cool thanks, I'll get one eventually, until then I just have to turn everything up louder (Liz will enjoy that).

nope, just looked it up on sweetwater. i was thinking of the AKG C2000B for about $250ish. ebay though should have one for a good price.

AKG C1000??? i forget the exact price, but it might be somewhere around $150???

Yeah...

Sorta figured that out after I posted, sm57 needs a little more juice to get anything done. Maybe I need to start looking for a good but cheap condenser microphone, something in the same price range as the 57. Can you recommend one?

jesse,

you probaby already know this, but i'll say it anyway cause i have no idea what else your problem could be...

dynamic mics are capable of handling LOTS of loud noise. this means it also takes a lot of sound to get a dynamic mic to register much level at all. so unless you have your amp turned up real loud, your sm 57 (or whatever dynamic mic you're using) simply may be incapable of picking up the sort of volume you're hoping for. on the other hand, condenser mics pick up every little thing.

weak mic levels

I've been trying to get a demo of a new song I'm writing up but battling with weak mic levels. Home recording is cool but it sucks when I spend more time patching cables and tweaking knobs than playing guitar.

You have any tips on getting a good mic signal, I thought dynamic mics weren't supposed to have this issue. I'm going to try running it through my midiverb 2 100% dry just to get a volume boost, might help I dunno, I'll try that for tommorow but right now I'm seeing red because I just wrote a really cool song and have no way to play it for you (I eBayed my webcam because winblows decided to start assigning it as a midi device which disabled my midi keyboard WTF?).

klotz,

i've been trying to save a vac day or two in the event that we could all get together to do some writing and/or recording. getting us all together at once would be tough though. right now i'd just be happy if these drums ever get recorded.

i don't know about smaller market studios, but here in chicago you could have a fucking doctorate in sound engineering and nobody would give you a second look unless you were somehow already in with the right people. they'll let you intern without pay if you want. then you can be one of their dozens of slave laborers holding out hope that someday the studio might hire you on at least part time to clean toilets and organize the mic cabinet.

Music School

Yeah, full sail is like 47k now. It's sort of retarded. And probably it's all shit I could teach myself. A lot of it I already have. I should have done it when you did, now I got way to much personal shit going on. Maybe if I could find a school where I could do it a little at a time, I don't know. Everything is to expensive. I just bought a new Alesis eight channel mixing board and my first non-shit microphone, a Shure PG58. My favorite mic so far is the little purple plastic one I found at KB Toy & Hobby for $5.

Is it possible to get a job or an internship doing this w/out a degree from full-sail or whatever. I mean if I have a BA in marketing and walk into a studio and know how to operate the equipment will anyone take me seriously?

Micah, don't be so hard on yourself, your recordings are good, and at least your doing something creative. Give yourself the credit you deserve, this stuff is hard work. I know you can write and record better songs than what you have out there, but that's no reason to feel like what you already did isn't extremely cool.

Nate & Jess

Speaking of favorite hobbies.....I cant wait to record again, Is there any hope or glimmer or sparkle or slight resemblance of a small breath of an inkling of a prayer for a chance to maybe record this summer. The three of us ?

Micah

Jesse

Congradulations on finishing your BA. I say go for your passion. My favorite hobby is the same as nates ...MAKING MUSIC !! I am sorry you had to hear some Fur Mina. I do like Mike's song Transient but the rest of the album is crap !!! Seriously though I think mike is a good song writer. He primarily wrote transient and It Moves. Those are the best songs on that EP. I dont know what I was thinking with An Aching. What the hell...... I think you can always use more education both in the classroom and on the street; just as long as its not wall street...Well....unless you desire to be a criminal. Wall Street makes the best criminals. They dont ever get caught and when they do......Well jsut talk to Bernie Maddoff's wife. I think nate would make a good criminal... What do you think ? In fact nate may already be a criminal...Not sure..

Micah

from my perspective, a tech degree in audio is a fantastic idea as long as it's something you're doing for yourself and not what you are banking on for a career or any sort of reliable job. for me, it was incredibly self indulgent and helped me get so much more out of my favorite hobby (making music).

as far as schools go, i think you get a lot of bang for the buck at the school i went to in tempe. back then it was $13,500 total tuition price for the complete 10-month program. full sail is longer and probably a more complete program, but at the time i researched it, tuition was around $30,000!

of course, you might just be better off spending $13,500 on some sweet ass recording gear and just continue doing your own recordings as you will get better and better.

woot

Fur Mina is playing right now on my last FM station, nice work Micah.

Hey Nate

I'm finished w/ my BA in like another month or so now and was considering getting some sort of tech degree in audio engineering or recording arts. Any suggestions as far as what schools are worth while or if this is even a good idea?

Thanks!

Silversun Pickups

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