Jim Nollman
Feb-05-2010, 12:26pm
I visit the Cafe just about every day that I'm near my computer. I like to check out the classified, and then look at the BRW social group, on the off chance that someone new has chimed in. The two areas that interest me foremost are equipment, especially discussions about the details of recording and amplifying acoustic mandolins, plus the threads about old time music, with an emphasis on discovering a new traditional tune to learn.
I visit two other music sites fairly regularly. First is Gearslutz, which is the best discussion group I know of, talking about all the "stuff" musicians use for recording and performing. I especially like to look at recording software. A thread presenting new products in mastering software, or some new drum machine will always grab my attention. I focus more on the professional level stuff then the consumer stuff, although they tend to overlap quite a bit.
I visit the Digidesign User discussion site a bit less regularly than the Cafe or Gearslutz. As a music producer, working everday with Protools, its the very best place to tap into the community of other protools users to get questions answered about working with this deep, deep software. I recently had a discouraging licensing problem with a very expensive plugin company, and the users there helped me figure out how to solve it, because so many of the other people on the site are pros who have the same kinds of issues.
What am i missing? I'd be interested to hear about other music sites, just so i can check them out. No, please don't talk about EBay or itunes. Those aren't discussion groups. :popcorn:
I visit two other music sites fairly regularly. First is Gearslutz, which is the best discussion group I know of, talking about all the "stuff" musicians use for recording and performing. I especially like to look at recording software. A thread presenting new products in mastering software, or some new drum machine will always grab my attention. I focus more on the professional level stuff then the consumer stuff, although they tend to overlap quite a bit.
I visit the Digidesign User discussion site a bit less regularly than the Cafe or Gearslutz. As a music producer, working everday with Protools, its the very best place to tap into the community of other protools users to get questions answered about working with this deep, deep software. I recently had a discouraging licensing problem with a very expensive plugin company, and the users there helped me figure out how to solve it, because so many of the other people on the site are pros who have the same kinds of issues.
What am i missing? I'd be interested to hear about other music sites, just so i can check them out. No, please don't talk about EBay or itunes. Those aren't discussion groups. :popcorn: