My thoughts were the SOS crew, too. regards their monthly Studio SOS makeovers. You can read the sorts of stuff they've done in the past here:-
http://www.soundonsound.com/search?s...ord=studio+sos
Loads of great issues raised by Khazul.
John, I notice you have an increasing (and rather tasty) external hardware setup with the Karma, Radias, Virus, Electribe etc.. How do use them at present? Do you sync them all up together and mix them using a hardware mixer or multi in/out soundcard, or do you record/layer them one by one into your DAW? Do you have any outboard hardware processors and/or effects or such that you use and integrate?
Also, what deficiencies do you think you have in your current setup or knowledge that you'd like to fill, if any? What would you like to learn or achieve from here onwards?
For the first few years I was learning about music tech I found the SOS archives an absolute goldmine for info, interviews, techniques, studio tips etc.. I must've printed half a tree's worth of articles for reading and slow digesting in the past.
Their archive contains all articles from around 1998 i think, right up until about 6 or 9 months after the very latest magazine articles are published. (Meaning, for example, the January 2007 issue wont be made freely available for non-subscribers until the summer or autumn this year), but most if not all technique articles from the past are timeless (apart from the PC/computer music aspect) so they are just as applicable today as they were perhaps five, ten or more years ago.