Recent content by db51

I've got a Yamaha DTXpress e-drum kit that I'm trying to record in MIDI to Nuendo through a soundblaster Live soundcard . I asked about this on this BBS a year ago, but I put homerecording aside for a while and I never got started. So here I am, I just bought today a MIDI-to-joystick cable to...

Is that a wise choice? Are tube amps reliable enough to gig without a back-up? I've read a few horror stories on tubes dying in the middle of a show, but I don't know how rare/frequent those are. Your experience?

For those of you who know the band "the Strokes", there's a good article in April's "Sound on Sound" issue. It explains how they recorded the album "Is this it?". Interesting read, as the album sounds very different from the average radio-friendly commercial record, and the whole album was...

That's the price for a used pair that I saw in a second hand music store in Paris this afternoon. I was looking for a pair of monitors and was going to go for a pair of Tannoy Reveal actives (750 eur/650 usd new)... But now this...Damn, I've been thinking all afternoon about this....It's a...

I'm looking into an amp for my soon to come monitors (probably Tannoys, still not sure yet). Any of you familiar with the Inter-M R-series (R150, R300 and R500) ?? Do you know how they compare to the Samson servo series??

In a few days I'll be buying a new computer which will be used mainly as a DAW, with my delta 66 card and Nuendo I've been researching motherboards for the last 3 weeks, and now my mind is set on an Nforce mobo (the Asus A7266-C, using a 415D chipset, no onboard graphics card). I found very...

I was really impressed by the sound of the Beyer M160 in Bruce's mic shoot-out. I'd like to hear how that mic (or some other ribbon) sounds like on vocals (I'm thinking mainly rock vocals here, but any kind of vocals would be interesting). Does anybody have any vocal tracks recorded with a...

Nvidia's nforce 420 chipset has been out for a few month now, and from the reviews and user comments I've read so far, this is what I gathered: - Very stable chipset : some former 'via' users were amazed at how stable this chipset is. I've only read 1 comment from a person using it in a...

I've got a Yamaha DTX electronic drumkit which has a MIDI input and output. Now before I go on I have to state that I've never used MIDI IN MY LIFE. Yes, I'm a complete MIDI-moron, so please keep your explanations simple :) 1. Ok I think the drumkit sounds fairly good through my Joemeek VC6Q...

What do you think??? What's gonna be the great effect of the 00's that every engineer is gonna overuse and be embarrassed at in 2011?? :)

I'm gonna upgrade my PC by the end of the summer and I was thinking of something along the lines of a 1.4 Tbird with a nForce chipset motherboard...:) Anyway in the meantime I'm wondering if anybody here tracks at 24/96? My PIII 500Mhz with 256 Mb RAM can't play back more than 15 tracks at...

Hey I just read in another thread that you have the sony ecm ms907 mic...I just wondered if you had find any good uses for it (guitar, drums...?) beside the use it was designed for (as a minidisc mic!). A sm58 and the sony are currently the only mics I own. I've tried the sony for micing...

...will it still be possible to find spare parts? I'm about to buy my first pair of monitors pretty soon, and there of lots of ns10's that can be bought second hand for cheap... But since Yamaha will no longer support them, I'm thinking it could be pretty hard to find spare parts, specially...

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/mybabygotshot/fool.mp3 (5.3Mb) I've mixed this on my hifi speakers as I can't afford monitors for the moment...I've given it a listen on my computer speakers and minidisc as well but I'd like some opinions from people with better monitors and EARS than mine before I...

I'm waiting for it to come out before I buy my first pre-amp, but I'm getting a bit impatient :) When is it coming out??? There's nothing on the fmr audio website aaaaaaahhhhhhhhhh :)