It occurs to me that a day comes for rather a lot of people when they wake up in the morning and suddenly, inexplicably, they have the urge to work at a recording studio.  I’ve known plenty of people who have taken this to the next level and hocked themselves up to the ears to purchase whatever gear the guy at the music store recommends.  Almost to a man, what they have now is no more than a big debt, while the equipment gathers dust in a spare room.  So whilst at face value the idea of running your own recording facility seems appealing, hindsight shows that it seldom leads anywhere.  And the main reason, I would suppose, is that these folks buy all the tasty gear only to find out that what actually makes good recordings isn’t equipment, it is EXPERIENCE.

There’s an interesting quote from Hunter S. Thompson, who said; “The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side”.

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MAKING YOUR KICK AND BASS SIT RIGHT IN THE MIX

This is the toughie boys and girls; how do you get a great, solid bass end which is both full and punchy without sounding flaccid, farty or muddy?  How do you get the bass and kick just right?