As digital audio recorder become more ubiquitious, its important to remember to leave enough headroom in our recordings and to be careful of built-in limiters that might squash and damage the sound. Here is a very clear example [21M Quicktime Movie] I ran across on Bob Katz's Digital Domain web site describing the loudness war problem. Although he is referring to the problem in mastering, we need to pay attention to the same concerns during recording as well as throughout the entire audio chain in the mixing process. If you're interested in achieving the highest possible audio quality with your gear, I highly recommend you give the above short example a listen.

If you run across useful tips or ideas for recording and mixing please feel free to post or add comments to this thread.

I ran across an interesting site called Tweak's Guide to the Home and Project Studio. Its full of interesting tips and ideas on recording, gear, and all sorts of related topics. It even has ideas to help jump-start you on writing music. While not a definitive solution to all of these topics, nonetheless I thought it might be of interest to some of you.