[Powell]

Recording Magazine is celebrating 20 Years of publishing.

My only grievance in the October issue regards an article
called "Modern DAWs, An Overview." In it Devon Brent
writes "And Note: RAID are the biggest waste of money
that the average user (and even the average "heavy" user)
doesn't need for DAW." First off RAID is not a single
technology for HDs, there are at least nine types of RAID
for various applications. And 2nd, he's never recorded
anything but 16/44 or he doesn't want you to. RAID O,
for example, is a real time saver. Finally, regarding the
video card, 64MB video card is woefully inadequate on
any high resolution monitor today. He apparently doesn't
practice what he preaches to his readers "do your
homework." His homework for Recording Magazine gets
a D+.

[DC]

Powell wrote:

Recording Magazine is celebrating 20 Years of publishing.

It's the only one I never got hooked on.

[Mike Rivers]

On Oct 2, 2:10 pm, DC wrote:

It's the only one I never got hooked on.

Since Recording isn't free, it's easy to not get hooked on it.

[DC]

Mike Rivers wrote:

It's the only one I never got hooked on.

Since Recording isn't free, it's easy to not get hooked on it.

My wife is glad that there are 240 fewer magazines in the shed. : )

[Fletch]

On Oct 2, 12:32 pm, Mike Rivers wrote:
On Oct 2, 2:10 pm, DC wrote:

It's the only one I never got hooked on.

Since Recording isn't free, it's easy to not get hooked on it.


Apparently, for me it is. I just started getting an unsolicited free
subscription a couple months back, just in time for Dorsey's review of
te R-122V, x-rays and all, though, sadly, no pics of the x-ray yet
available to view. Scott said he has to get clearance to publish.

I was never the biggest fan of the magazine. Back in the early days,
wasn't it called "Home Recording" or some such, implying 'low budget',
'not for pros'?? I can't remember that far back on some things.

However, I did get in on the ground floor of Mix mag, which I found
far superior and exactly what I needed at the time.

--Fletch

[DC]

Fletch wrote:

Apparently, for me it is. I just started getting an unsolicited free
subscription a couple months back, just in time for Dorsey's review of
te R-122V, x-rays and all, though, sadly, no pics of the x-ray yet
available to view. Scott said he has to get clearance to publish.

I was never the biggest fan of the magazine. Back in the early days,
wasn't it called "Home Recording" or some such, implying 'low budget',
'not for pros'?? I can't remember that far back on some things.


That's what I thought, too.

However, I did get in on the ground floor of Mix mag, which I found
far superior and exactly what I needed at the time.


Were you a fan of RE/P? That was my favorite.

[Richard Crowley]

"DC" wrote ...
Fletch wrote:
However, I did get in on the ground floor of Mix mag, which I found
far superior and exactly what I needed at the time.

Were you a fan of RE/P? That was my favorite.

And "dB" before that.

[DC]

Richard Crowley wrote:

However, I did get in on the ground floor of Mix mag, which I found
far superior and exactly what I needed at the time.
Were you a fan of RE/P? That was my favorite.

And "dB" before that.


I have RE/P's dating from 1970. I probably don't have anything before
that. : )

[Scott Dorsey]

Fletch wrote:

Apparently, for me it is. I just started getting an unsolicited free
subscription a couple months back, just in time for Dorsey's review of
te R-122V, x-rays and all, though, sadly, no pics of the x-ray yet
available to view. Scott said he has to get clearance to publish.

I have got into trouble too many times for showing pictures of insides
and schematics....

I was never the biggest fan of the magazine. Back in the early days,
wasn't it called "Home Recording" or some such, implying 'low budget',
'not for pros'?? I can't remember that far back on some things.

Yes, it started out as Home Recording, and it was really the first project
studio magzine. It's still in that market, as is EQ. The thing is that
the magazines that were all aimed at the professional market, like R/E/P
and Mix have either all disappeared or changed. The professional studio
market sadly isn't what it used to be.

However, I did get in on the ground floor of Mix mag, which I found
far superior and exactly what I needed at the time.

Mix was originally aimed at the professional studio crowd, and it had a
really good mix of articles. You'll notice though, that the Mix of today
is very different than it was 15 years back. In part this is because the
studios have changed so much.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

[Fletch]

On Oct 3, 6:38 am, (Scott Dorsey) wrote:
Fletch wrote:

Apparently, for me it is. I just started getting an unsolicited free
subscription a couple months back, just in time for Dorsey's review of
te R-122V, x-rays and all, though, sadly, no pics of the x-ray yet
available to view. Scott said he has to get clearance to publish.

I have got into trouble too many times for showing pictures of insides
and schematics....

I was never the biggest fan of the magazine. Back in the early days,
wasn't it called "Home Recording" or some such, implying 'low budget',
'not for pros'?? I can't remember that far back on some things.

Yes, it started out as Home Recording, and it was really the first project
studio magzine. It's still in that market, as is EQ. The thing is that
the magazines that were all aimed at the professional market, like R/E/P
and Mix have either all disappeared or changed. The professional studio
market sadly isn't what it used to be.

However, I did get in on the ground floor of Mix mag, which I found
far superior and exactly what I needed at the time.

Mix was originally aimed at the professional studio crowd, and it had a
really good mix of articles. You'll notice though, that the Mix of today
is very different than it was 15 years back. In part this is because the
studios have changed so much.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."


Yeah, that is sad.

I don't remember R/E/P, but I do remember db.

Mix has become, oh I don't know, kind of like not wanting to say bad
things about products anymore. Perhaps it is for fear of losing
revenue dollars in advertising. It's difficult to get completely
unbiased reviews.

They always say, good this good that, could improve the whatzit, but
the conclusion is always favourable in that it says you can find a
good use for the given device in your studio/recording chain.

The interviews tend to be pretty good, but still not quite as
informative as they used to be. I used to like the "classic tracks'
articles, though. These were at least informative when the engineer
was forthcoming about details of the sessions.

So I don't subscribe anymore, haven't since the late '90's.

--Fletch

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On Oct 2, 4:45 pm, Fletch wrote:
On Oct 2, 12:32 pm, Mike Rivers wrote:

On Oct 2, 2:10 pm, DC wrote:

It's the only one I never got hooked on.

Since Recording isn't free, it's easy to not get hooked on it.

Apparently, for me it is. I just started getting an unsolicited free
subscription a couple months back, just in time for Dorsey's review of
te R-122V, x-rays and all, though, sadly, no pics of the x-ray yet
available to view. Scott said he has to get clearance to publish.

I was never the biggest fan of the magazine. Back in the early days,
wasn't it called "Home Recording" or some such, implying 'low budget',
'not for pros'?? I can't remember that far back on some things.

However, I did get in on the ground floor of Mix mag, which I found
far superior and exactly what I needed at the time.

--Fletch

Home and Studio Recording. I used to subscribe in the late 80's, on
and off, to H&SR, Electronic Musician, and Keyboard to get my techno
and how to fix. For some reason I subscribed to Recording again last
month, mainly for some light reading.

[DC]

wrote:

Home and Studio Recording. I used to subscribe in the late 80's, on
and off, to H&SR, Electronic Musician, and Keyboard to get my techno
and how to fix. For some reason I subscribed to Recording again last
month, mainly for some light reading.

Stomach troubles? : )

[Scott Dorsey]

Fletch wrote:

Mix has become, oh I don't know, kind of like not wanting to say bad
things about products anymore. Perhaps it is for fear of losing
revenue dollars in advertising. It's difficult to get completely
unbiased reviews.

All of the magazines except for Tape Op are pretty much like that. Recording
is better than most of them, which is why I still do reviews for them. They
are usually willing to say that a product is bad.

They always say, good this good that, could improve the whatzit, but
the conclusion is always favourable in that it says you can find a
good use for the given device in your studio/recording chain.

Yes, and they have favorably reviewed some products that I think they
would have done better to warn users' against.

The interviews tend to be pretty good, but still not quite as
informative as they used to be. I used to like the "classic tracks'
articles, though. These were at least informative when the engineer
was forthcoming about details of the sessions.


Sometimes they are even more interesting when they don't mention some of
the details.
--scott
--
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."