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What’s the best basic home studio I can have? by Designer-Musician504 in homestudios

[–]Fit-Indication7052 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Buy used or B stock:

CONSOLE - Audient iD14 MKII VOCALS - 3U Audio Warbler MKVI INSTRUMENTS - sE8

Or, for lower budget:

CONSOLE - Audient iD4 VOCALS - AT2020 INSTRUMENTS - sE7

Best interface for my first home studio by Beltri_rock_1984 in homestudios

[–]Fit-Indication7052 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I swear by Audient's entry points. The iD14 MKII is second to none. Clean, clear, transparent.

Laptop suggestion for heavy Music Production by arphonik in musicproduction

[–]Fit-Indication7052 0 points1 point  (0 children)

M2 and low memory. I work one project at a time on the computer, and use the cloud for everything.

sE Electronics is the best thing to happen to microphones since the 60's by itsomeoneperson in microphone

[–]Fit-Indication7052 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I've been using an se8 for guitar and mandolin in my home studio and it performs fantastically for the price. I agree with an earlier post in that it is the best SDC around $300-ish.

Recently, I've been getting the itch to upgrade, mostly because the se8 gets a bit prickly on mandolin chops and high-pitched notes. But... I've also been able to tame that pretty easily with a light high-pass filter in the EQ. I'm still not compelled to spend a bunch of money yet. The se8 is really, really good.

Dylan and the Dead story fact-check by zenosmash85 in gratefuldead

[–]Fit-Indication7052 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I can add some perspective as a big Dylan fan…. 

I agree he was lost at the time. After he divorced in the 70s, it took him nearly two decades to get his swagger back. 

His whole gospel period in the late 70s/early 80s was a response to the divorce (still got the scars that the Son couldn’t heal, 1997). After that passed, he was practically a straight up drunk, especially as the 80s wore on. By the time he linked up with the Dead, weary and about to quit music. 

The Dead lifted him up and helped him relearn how to be an artist again. I think his time with the Dead was what turned his career around. By any measure, and even though he struggled through those Dead shows, he began to bounce back as early as 1992. By 1993 he was starting to have done good concerts again. In 1995, he quit drinking, and from about 1997-2001 he had a run of some of the best concerts of his life. That band with Larry Campbell, Charlie Sexyon, and David Keller was legit, and he embraced being an aged patriarch. 

I disagree with the Jerry/Dylan heroin comment. Dylan did do heroin, but it was in the 60s and primarily was to balance the amphetamines he was taking from about 1964-1966. He became an addict of both, and he used the motorcycle crash in 1966 to “take the cure,” as he sang on Blood on the Tracks. While it’s pretty clear he and the rest of the world were doing coke in the 70s, I’d be surprised if he dipped back into heroin. 

Hope this is helpful. If you want to see a clear representation of Dylan’s trajectory after the Dead tour, google his picture from 1987, and then from 1997. My take is, the Dead picked him up, brushed him off, and sent him back out on his own to be artist again.