I’ve got another round of questions for your weekend.
Thanks to everyone for your submissions. Good questions this week!
Topics covered:
Listen here:
Or download the mp3 here. [19 minutes, 22 MB]
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I get lots of questions. This particular one made me want to do a video. Special thanks to Tom, one of my newsletter subscribers.
Time for another rousing edition of Ask Joe. Today I’ve got seven questions. They deal with:
Listen here:
Or you can download the mp3 here. [11 minutes, 7.5 MB]
Trent from Indiana sent me a great question via the Ask Joe form. Let’s take a look at it:
Joe – I’m new to Pro Tools. I have simple tracks that I just want to get down onto disc. I have acoustic guitar, vocals, and might add mandolin or some more guitar parts. I don’t want to color my tracks too much with the cheap plug-ins that came with my Pro Tools LE. I’m wondering what you think is the best way to get these onto a disc without it being just a rough mix? Hope I’m making sense. Thanks.
Trent gives us an example of a common assumption in the home recording world. Most people believe that the plug-ins that come with your recording software are inferior by default. I would challenge this a bit.
I recently emailed a lot of people on my mailing list, letting them know about the Ask Joe portion of the website. I got a TON of responses, more than I could feasibly write responses to in the HSC forums or here on the blog.
So, to both save some time and also answer all of these questions, I sat down this morning recorded my response to each of them…all thirty of ‘em. 
There are all sorts of questions, and it was actually pretty fun answering them all. You can listen here:
Right-click here to download the mp3. [34 minutes, 46.9 MB]
I’ve put together a free webinar for my newsletter subscribers. It’s this coming Tuesday, January 19th, from 7-8pm CST. Acoustic treatment expert Gavin Haverstick will be joining me to help explain acoustic treatment and answer your questions.
To access the webinar, you need to sign up for my mailing list. You’ll get a free copy of my new eBook Roadmap to Finishing Your Album, AND you’ll get all the information you need to sign up for the webinar.
In my last post I put up a LONG-overdue video. Now it’s time to jump back on the “Ask Joe” bandwagon.
If you’re new to HSC, I make it a point to regularly answer reader questions here on the blog. I can’t answer EVERY question, but I try to cover as many as I can. Got a question? Fill out the Ask Joe form.
Hey Joe, how about a piece on basic, fairly low cost, live stage setup, for the beginning group:
- 2-4 mics
- mixer and/or DAW (with basic reverb, dynamics, EQ)
- amps
- floor monitors
- what else?
Have you ever had issues getting your Digidesign audio interface to play back your computer’s audio (like iTunes or internet audio)? It can be a bit of a challenge. Check out this week’s Ask Joe question.
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Hey Joe!
I have been trying to figure a way to run my computer’s audio through my speakers that are connected to my 003. I don’t want to have to open Pro Tools to play a CD or MP3 that someone has given me as a reference. I just want to open iTunes or Windows Media Player and play the track. Is there a way to do this?
Thanks a lot!
- Josh
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First of all, this is the 100th post here at Home Studio Corner! It’s a small milestone, but I wanted to take a moment to thank all of my readers and supporters. You guys are awesome.
Speaking of awesome, we’ve got another good Ask Joe question. If you’re new, you can submit questions via the Ask Joe form, and I try to feature them in a weekly “Ask Joe” post.
Ross asked:
Hey Joe, hope you can help me here. I was wondering what you think would be best for my situation. I’m a young, aspiring home recording enthusiast. I mainly record myself and my friends and usually only use as much as two inputs at a time. I was originally using Cakewalk Sonar with a Tascam FW-1082 but I’ve sold that now to go down the Pro Tools route.
