What trade magazines or websites is everyone subscribing to?

[dwade277]

Tape Op for sure!! Sound on Sound, for guitar and bass related things I use and contribute to the home recording and Song writing forum on thestringnetwork.com http://www.thestringnetwork.com/viewforum.php?f=13 also Sweetwater recording Forums.

Thanks Ellwood,

I have been to thestringnetwork.com and will be there again.

[Ellwood]

Excellent Damon!! bring your guitar/bass playing buddy's, its a great place to hang out (in fact join officially there are some nice benefits) .... Lee

[dwade277]

Excellent Damon!! bring your guitar/bass playing buddy's, its a great place to hang out (in fact join officially there are some nice benefits) .... Lee

I will join now, thanks again.

Damon

[mojobone]

I'm down to TapeOp and the occasional Sound On Sound; I used to subscribe to Guitar Player, but lapsed after Michael Molenda became editor; I'd loved him at Electronic Musician, a mag that basically taught me to use a DAW, (by reading sooo many in depth reviews with complete descriptions of all the features and whatnot, as DAWs were being developed) but when he went to GP, he reformatted the mag to include more whitespace, look more like the web, and beyond all, include less information, the very thing I was paying good money for. (I still need to write a letter telling him where to stick it, he ruined a once-great magazine) I started with Recording, but put that down once it became rather repetitive about the basics, eventually dropped EM when it began simply shilling for its advertisers and stopped pointing out flaws in gear reviews. Same eventually happened at GP, and most of the other magazines I once relied on to keep up with ever more swiftly changing technology.

I once estimated that over a ten year period, I'd spent the equivalent of a couple of years' worth of Berklee tuition on these magazines, but well worth the nearly painless price of fifteen bucks or so per month, and I still have and occasionally refer to about half of them. I've always been a bit of a compulsive reader and obsessed with music, so it was natural for me to keep something handy for those moments in life where you're just stuck, waiting, and trying to use those bits of time to improve myself and my music; magazines' bite-sized articles were perfect for that, and it's certainly all added up; a few years ago, I let my GP sub slide, as there were just too many typos and I was tired of the editors using the subscriber base as guinea pigs instead of doing their job. In short, I realized that I'd become an expert, quite by accident, as it was only because I was interested to know. That was when I stopped compulsively reading, got online, and started compulsively sharing. (I jes' hate to let anything go to waste)

So now you know...the rest of the story.

[dwade277]

Thanks mojobone, great info. I appreciate you time and knowledgeable advice!

Damon

[mazz]

+1000 for Tape Op and Sound on Sound. I get Keyboard still for old times' sake but it's a shadow of it's former self. I still enjoy Mix as well.

I used to read them all, now I'm too busy trying to apply all that knowledge!

[dwade277]

Thanks mazz, seems like Tape Op and Sound on Sound has a strong following hear. I will be subscribing to them. Thanks for your impute.

Damon

[mojobone]

Thanks mojobone, great info. I appreciate you time and knowledgeable advice!

Damon

I should thank Recording for introducing me to Taxi; credit where it's due. And a word about Guitar Player, Keyboard and their ilk; you can have much of the benefit of those mags online, if not up-to-the-minute. In return for your email, and the right to market directly to your inbox, you can get some rather awesome education on your axe, and some inspiration to go with it.