Oh I know.
Better then me, usually when I’m playing the guitar, I occasionally hit a note that’s in key. 
No, I didn’t even know there was an original, lol. Boy, I’m in touch eh?
Yeah, that’s the best part. IIRC both are under $150. I know a lot of people that use them as sort of a poor mans mastering. I personally wouldn’t recommend that, but they definitely make a well mixed song sound more polished.
The only secret I can think of is get good studio monitors. Also get good neighbors, or good headphones. One other thing, don’t fix things later. My partner is one of those “we’ll fix it later in Pro Tools” type of guys, fucking drives me up the wall. We always end up spending 2 hours using some overly fancy ass program to fix (and it doesn’t even fix it well) a pop, when we could have just re-recorded the track in 5 minutes. One last thing, that I always do, (in fact I’m kind of psycho about it) is erase any part if the track that isn’t playing, literally. I’m like a human noisegate. The nanosecond that a track stops, or pauses, I erase that line, and replace it with pure silence. We’re working on a track now called Mr. Jones, and I just went through an erased ever single tiny breath between her words. You hear a single breath in that track and I’ll paypay you $5 Anyway, I’ve found it helps, especially when you add effects, as whatever problems tend to become more noticeable. I haven’t yet found a noisegate that does it better then me, so until that day…
As to my equipment, here’s my setup. Not pretty, but it does the job. Behold, The Laboratorium!
The skull is the source of my power. [sub]shhhush, quiet fool, you’re giving away your secrets[/sub]
Er… I mean the skull, is my dearly departed pet, it gives me good luck.
Nice, I’m wondering if we have the same board. I just swapped in my old Mackie 1202, because I needed more channels. My Behringer has worked like a charm. I’ve never heard of N-track or T-raxx, what are they? Nice mic btw, now let’s hear some lyrics. 
Very nice stuff. Which axe is the fave? Btw I hope you have homeowners insurance, I bet that gear adds up.
I think the only decent piece of gear I have is my Hartke 410 with 200 watt head. I swear with those aluminum drivers, that thing could level a small city. I’m a bass player by nature, (although I can play a little drums :D) so when my old band was playing out, I needed something nice. I have DBX compressor, a few effect units (quadraverb and a similar thing by Yamaha) a real nice drum machine by Alesis (DM12 IIRC), a Korg TR-Rack, an Aphex Aural exciter, and a Berhinger Eurorack with 24 inputs on it connecting the whole shebang. To connect to the computer I’m running a 24 bit Lexicon Core 2 card. I recently upgraded my computer from a Dell 600 Mhz P3 (win 98) to a home built 2.8 Ghz P4 (XP) with some neat tricks. I actually ran into a problem where my Lexicon card wouldn’t run on XP. I didn’t have the $500 or $600 to get something comparable, so I ripped out the 98 drive, stuck it in my new machine, and made it dual boot. For the software I was running Cubase but I’ve switched over to Cakewalk 9, which has most of the functionality, yet none of the headache. Often I’ll make a beat in Reason, dump it into CW, record on it, and go back and tweak the beat in Reason. As long as I don’t change the tempo, the stuff always lines up perfectly.
Sweet! I’m off to take a look.
