[Rwp] I did it! I'm now an owner!

[Christopher-Mark Gilland]

Well, what are your pricings for basic tutoring?

Let's start there.

Chris.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Belle via RWP" <rwp at bluegrasspals.com>
To: "Reapers Without Peepers" <rwp at bluegrasspals.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 04, 2015 12:49 AM
Subject: Re: [Rwp] I did it! I'm now an owner!


> Goodfor you man.
>
> Reaper is so cheap and so good that you can't hardly afford not to buy it,
> it took me a couple of years to get around to it, but i feel good doing 
> the right thing.
>
> Especially since they make it so darned easy to authorize, I just hate 
> these ilock
> and internet based authorization schemes that aren't accessible for many 
> professional products.
>
> I've been happily avoiding those companies while still finding alternative 
> solutions to get my work done, and make my clients happy.
>
> I think nothing beats
> a personal tutor, and I do low priced tutoring in mixing and mastering and 
> all such things,
> I haven't been advertising reaper teaching because I don't feel like I'm 
> quite up to par for all the crazy reaper stuff yet, most of my students 
> use sonar and other tools, but as far as the issues with eq, compressors, 
> sends, routing, fx, and automation and so on and so forth, been happily 
> and successfully
> bringing folks on for a number of years now.
>
> I never thought I'd enjoy teaching so much, but it's been a good thing for 
> me since I got sick back in 04 and couldn't gig anymore,
> there are things around like the
> Engineer's Hand Book,
> which are a wealth of information,
> and many others, even if you don't feel like I would be a good match for 
> you tutoring,
> I would suggest you look at doing that perhaps Scot since he knows reaper 
> so much better than I do would be up for it, not presuming to speak for 
> him,
>  but even a few sessions of it could bring you up to speed in a way that 
> mere reading and trying to firuge things out on your own might not.
>
> Anyway, just some thoughts.
> Fuln times.
>
>
>
> On 4/3/2015 3:28 AM, Christopher-Mark Gilland via RWP wrote:
>> I did it!  I just bought the discounted license for Reaper.  Now that I'm 
>> starting to get the hang of it, I definitely see its potential.
>> I'll admit that I have a very long ways to go, but so far, I love what 
>> I'm seeing.  There definitely are some querks, but for the most part, 
>> considering its price, it was definitely worthit.
>> Just wanted to share that.  OK, off to go learn more.  I do however have 
>> one question.
>> I am not very good when it comes to listening to EBooks of any sort with 
>> computerized speech. I don't care what TTS I use, after a while, it gives 
>> me a headache.  I was wonderring if either Audible, or Bard, even better, 
>> might have an audio book that I could download which covers very very 
>> basic fundemental mixing skills/termanology, etc from a beginners 
>> standpoint.  I really would like to read up more on what makes audio 
>> engineering go click.  Again, I know there are books out there in pdf, or 
>> IBooks/Google Play, etc. but if I do this, I'd really rather just get a 
>> human reading to me.
>> Either that, or does ITunes U have anything worthwhile?
>> Chris.
>>
>>
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