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For a so-called "guide" to a cheap music studio, you never mention any prices for the items; I know they vary depending on location, but a range or starting price would have been useful.
Next, the speakers... are we supposed to monitor our sound using an iPod and "fun and colorful" speakers? How about something more useful, like KRK Rokit 5 or M-Audio DSM1?
OK, both the Blue Yeti and M-Audio MobilePre USB are decent items, but are you aware they don't actually connect together? The pre-amp of the M-Audio won't be utilized by a USB mike.
Joe, this is not an instant studio, this is a collection of stuff you found that had white backgrounds and therefore works with the Unplggd theme. Agroman called this post horrible, but I think it goes beyond that to misleading and useless.

@Contrabass, that Exposure section isn't necessarily exposure compensation; manual exposure modes would show similar scales. But I agree with the rest of your comments.

I guess if it truly is "time to lay off that auto-setting" you may as well go ahead and learn what all those settings do... and leave the "extremely useful" cheat sheet behind. Sorry, but as pretty a chart this is, it's usefulness is questionable.

A little bit of dust isn't going to show up much on a picture, except for a slight softening of the image. Smudges and spots are more much more noticeable, and the lens pen in the pic above is amazing. I've seen them remove greasy fingerprints with no trace left behind. Seriously, criminals should use those to remove fingerprints before leaving crime scenes!

"freon-powered canned air can blast your lens and cause cracks" ?!? Really?

I have never seen that happen... I'd like to! But I did spend 15 years selling in retail camera stores, so, what do I know...

my last hard drive failure prompted me to upgrade to SSD... both in my Macbook and desktop PC... still have those old spinners around for the bulk storage, tho.

The metering head on a Nikon F is called "photomic" not phonemic. Spell checker strikes again!

Having been an amateur photographer since the 70's (I was a kid back then) I would love to see more digital cameras styled like older Nikon SLRs. Leica can do it, why doesn't anyone else? It would be a dream to be able to use my collection of manual focus lenses on a camera that can meter properly too!