As to the room, I don't see mixed signals there. Beck's "mellow gold" sounds good yet they did it in a living room. It is possible. Of course it may have sounded "better" in an expensive engineered room. Sure the room makes a difference, but if you have three radio shack microphones and a 4-track cassette recorder and the best room and band in the world, it's still going to sound like a cheap recording no matter who is engineering the recording. While if you have top of the line mics and pres and a Protools HD system and a great band in a crappy room, with a good engineer it can still sound very good and professional. I also stated in my original post that I have limited resources. Telling someone who can't afford $50,000+ to build a nice room that they need a good room is not helpful. I don't understand why you feel the need to reiterate this point. It is mute. I will have to do the best with what I have.
I said that I have 17 years of recording experience because it is a fact, not to boast of how good I am. Just that I understand the fundamentals of recording. I never said I had 17 years exerience recording in rich studios with loads of great gear and that I was expert at using it all. I said I had recorded my own bands.
The URL I have listed shows exactly how good or bad I am, given the gear and room that I recorded it with and in. Nothing more or less.
As far as me not understanding a word of the Bible, I don't see why you would make such an assumption, unless you think that just because we have free will, and bad things happen to good people it negates God's Will (God being Ultimate and Perfect Good). The Bible is as much an instruction on what not to do as it is what to do.
I suppose you haven't spent much time meditating on Eternal Existence vs. temporal existence. Eternal Exitence (where God is, though the Eternal can exist in the temporal, the temporal cannot exist in the Eternal) everything might as well for the sake of perspective, have already happened to those outside of time and living in Eternal Existence. Think of a scientist who knows the reaction between chemicals that he is going to mix. The chemical reaction seems to be instantaneous to the scientist, but on sub atomic levels there is much moving and changing. Equate this to our existence. God being the scientist, temporal reality being the chemical reaction, the elect being the product and the damned beng the waste product.
Bear in mind of course, that God is of Infinite perception and intelligence as well as all other virtuous attributes. We are manifesting ourselves into actual reality while the seemingly real is only temporal illusion, actual reality is Eternal.
So sitting on your ass all day, is not a viable option as what must be done must be done. Sure there are people who sit on there ass all day but I don't see how that is relevant to God's Will as factual reality. I suppose that is what they choose to do. From our perspective in time, the choices and accountability of our actions are our decisions. From a non-temporal/Eternal perspective, though the choices are already made, we still made them and are accountable. This however ends in the outcome that God intends.
Does that clear things up?
Peace
Jesus!
