About 8 years ago, I decided that I was going to figure out how to do high quality recording using my computer. My goal was to be able to produce a equal quality to the recording studios that had spent in the area of $150,000 and do it for under $5,000.

I has been a long and difficult road but a very interesting and fruitful one as well. The first computer I used to do this was a 100MHZ cirrix processor that ran hot as hell. The software I used was Cakewalk Home Studio.
I had to figure everything out myself for several reasons. The first being that in the area I live in there was no one that I could find within a four or five state area that was doing what I had in mind to do. There was some level of expertise in Nashville but by and large most everything was done on Tape.
The second reason I had to go it on my own was the folks that did know something about recording in my area did not want to create another competitor so they did not offer any help at all.

I have learned many many many (and I can't say enough many's)things along the way. All of these things were learned by pit bull tenacity and a thrist for knowledge and just plain being hard headed.

I was fortunate enough to have spent 8 years in the US Navy and attended some if not the best electronics schools in the world.
I am basically a tecnician but am also a electronics engineer. I became a engineer the same way I learned what I now know about recording.
I don't want to make this first post too long and the story of what and how I have learned is far too long. I do want to pass on one very important thing right now though.Most have an idea of what goes on in a studio and how something gets produced.
A very major thing I learned and I really want to get this across is that a studio if it is truly doing its job does not do magic. I have coined a term at least I think I have since I have not seen or heard it being used by anyone but myself.
That term is Audiography. If everything is done as it should be in setting up to record and having the system as it should be,the studio is basically a audiographer.
It is truly that simple and I can and will tell all who wish to know exactly what I mean. It is my feeling that what I have learned is to be shared so that more good music can be heard and enjoyed by more people.