Gearslutz 09/18/12

Gearslutz is the web’s biggest audio forum. Plug into the conversation and learn a lot about the ins and outs of sound.

Get past the name and you’ll find lot of your audio questions are answered on Gearslutz. This forum site offers friendly and helpful sharing of information about audio recording and production techniques, the use of recording equipment and experiences in the world of music, audio, post-production and more.

They’re serious about the friendly and helpful part. Their “infraction points” system imposes a troll toll that keeps conversations civil.

This is good news for audio novices that are often intimidated by the very folks who could help them.

In addition to the forum, Gearslutz also has:

• a services directory
• reviews
• job postings
• deal zone
• merchandise
• marketplace
• music biz articles
• video vault
• tips & techniques

In this short clip from their video vault, Carl Beatty, a veteran engineer and professor of Production and Engineering at Berklee College of Music, gives some brutally honest advice on setting up and running a home studio.