Articles and How-tos

• Digital Domain
• Ty Ford's microphone and preamp reviews.
• Information on studio acoustic treatments
• Harvey Gerst's Microphone primer
• My self-instruction on how many bits is enough
• Bruce Richardson Tips on How To Mix
• Portions of Scott Dorsey's Making Mics Better article.

Assorted Links and URL

I've started collecting links that are of interest in the music and studio space.

• http://www.prorec.com/
• http://recpit.prosoundweb.com/ Home of Fletcher and Harvey Gerst's great forums.
• http://www.tweakheadz.com/
• http://www.phys.tue.nl/people/etimmerman/RecordingFAQ.html
• http://www.audio-recording-center.com/articles-index.html
• The Project Studio Handbook http://theprojectstudiohandbook.com/directory.htm
• http://www.recordingwebsite.com/
• http://www.bownie.com/guide/
• http://www.dbmasters.net/
• http://members.tripod.com/~audio4280/
• http://www.tonmeister.ca/main/index.html
• Tape-op is very nice. http://www.tapeop.com/
• http://www.audioforums.com/
• http://www.intermusic.com/
• http://musician.com/category/showcategory.asp?cat=gear
• http://www.modrec.com/
• http://www.dmxl.net/index.html
• http://www.recording.org/cgi-local/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi
• http://www.saecollege.de/reference_material/index.html
• More from Ethan www.recording.org/users/acoustics
• A good audio magazine from the UK, Sound-on-Sound http://www.soundonsound.com/
• http://www.thelisteningsessions.com
• http://www.studioforums.com
• http://www.digitalprosound.com
• Very nice technical description of how RedBook audio CDs are actually stored: http://www.ee.washington.edu/conselec/CE/kuhn/cdaudio2/95x7.htm

Newsgroups and forums

• Ethan's forum on acoustics at recording.org
• www.homerecording.com/bbs
• Jules' cool Gearslutz Forums http://www.gearslutz.com/
• Cakewalk forums http://www.cakewalk.com/Support/  

Stores

• Action Guitar in Arlington VA
• Atomic Music in College Park MD
• Chuck Levin's Washington Music Center in Wheaton MD

DC area rental Audio equipment

Software

• Pacific Soundcraft (Free DXi plugins)
• DB-Audioware (Very nice commericial DXi pluggins)
• Green Machine amp simulators

Linux DAW links

First, your Linux box's kernel has to have the proper drivers compiled in. This is bad news at first, as most folks are clueless about how to build a kernel, even tho it is not hard. The good news is that for popular distributions, Planet CCRMA solves your problem.

Planet CCRMA collection of rpms (RPM stands for RedHat Package Manager) that you can add to a computer running RedHat 7.3, 8.0, 9 or Fedora Core 1 to transform it into an audio workstation (http://ccrma-www.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/)

Even better news is that the Linux 2.5 kernels have the proper hooks included in the distribution, and all subsequent kernals, such as 2.6 will have it automatically. This will be great.

Other Linux links

• Loads of Linux Links AV http://loll.sourceforge.net/linux/links/Audio-Video/
• Linux Sound.org http://linux-sound.org/docs.html
• AGNULA project www.agnula.org
• Ardour http://ardour.sourceforge.net/
• Audacity http://audacity.sourceforge.net/
• LADSPA plug-ins by Steve Harris www.plugin.org.uk
• Linux audio links www.linuxsound.at
  
• Rosegarden www.all-day-breakfast.com/rosegarden/
• Sweep www.metadecks.org/software/sweep/

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