A good hands-on approach with less risk is to rent a managed vps or shared webhost for a short period, and explore how they have it set up, and what you can do with it. See if you can get ssh access.

Don’t deploy anything serious, just Hello World sandbox stuff. Go watch the logs to see just how nmany bots are looking for wordpress sites, etc. Use the softaculous installer, if available, to quickly mess with different app deployment.

Look at the zone editor to see how domains are configured, though shared hosting will be odd sett and limited by the hosting company. See the antispam and security settings. Look at how they set up email accounts, and mess with the database editor(s).

At each step, have a browser window open with reference docs. If you are learning linux terminal commands, I strongly suggest upgrading from basic man reference material and using the tl;dr webapp.

edit: note that renting a shared webhost will probably be better with a small hosting company running cpanel as big companies like godaddy (friends don’t let friends use godaddy) use proprietary site management software that obscures just how shitty their setup is.

Best I can do is the SE/30, in peach, tangerine, and cerulean.

OK, well, you have a lot more tolerance for tape hiss and compression artifacts and muted highs than I do, the only quiet tapes I’ve heard were big fat studio tapes when I had access to a research studio.

I spent so many years trying to get a decent field recording out of the best portable recording (cassette) decks that I may be a little traumatized. DAT recording was a revelation, even with horribly unreliable decks.

This is a rare setup. Kind of vintage audio unicorn.

You still have a noticeable noise floor and medium limitations as equalizer, though (“warmer”).

99.999% of decks and surviving tapes do sound like dogshit.

I call this “road tinsel”, there used to be a lot of it strewn along highways.