Recent content by Firestorm79

Ok guys I don't think I fully understand latency yet. I understand it's the delay between the action of playing/producing the sound and for the ear to actually hear the sound. I'm using the bundled ableton live 8 lite that came with my scarlett 8i6. I laid down the first track (guitar part)...

Can anyone give me a step-by-step guide to running ableton live 8 as slave to reaper 4 (32 bit)? I've looked everywhere... :(

Ok thx again guys. I guess I'm just eager to find out exactly how I'll be doing everything before I even get it! A little patience and all shall be revealed...

How would I use the audio interface for monitoring (whether headphons or speakers) during mixing? I thought when it comes to mixing on the DAW the audio interfaces's role ceases. Also while I've got the helpful ear of the senior members, how do I play a track (or tracks) that have been recorded...

Ok, I'm a bit confused now. Let me use actual examples... Focusrite Scarlett has two pre-amp inputs - are those phantom power inputs as well? Will I have no problems when sticking in an AKG condenser mic via XLR into one of those? What about my electric guitar? If I wanted to plug it straight...

Ok I've taken on board all the advice. I'm going to be supernoob again. Can you guys tell me exactly what i'll need to start recording? I've decided on the Focusrite Scarlett 8i6 for the audio interface. And for a laptop I'm thinking an hp pavilion with 6gb ram, intel i5 (2nd gen) CPU and...

Thanks - this has all been very helpful.

Hi guys I'm just getting back into recording after over a decade's hiatus. Apart from not being fully up to speed with all the developments I have also forgotten a lot of what I had learnt (partially because I wasn't mainly in charge of all the mixing back then either). Anyway I'm looking for...

Hi supercooper, I'm just getting into computer music production (having done a lot of fully analogue music production years and years ago). I've been researching audio interfaces and the focusrite scarlette 8i6 interests me very much. Can you tell me a bit about it? I understand it has two...

Hi all, my brothers and I used to do a lot of home recording about 12 years ago. How things have changed... Back then we did it with a 4 track tascam and mackie mixing desk... Now being married and two kids later I'd like to get into it again this time using computer based mixing and...