Recent content by Jeff_D

I've been half-heatedly shopping for a new interface for a while now. I currently use two MAudio Delta 1010lt cards in a pc w/ 64bit Win7. While I know there are higher quality interfaces on the market, for the price these have been really good for the past 8 or 9 years now. However, when I...

I record acoustic drums; a set of Pearl exports I picked up from Dross. Sometimes I'll make a copy of my snare track, keep one "natural" then on the copied track use a drum replacer software that uses the peak of each snare hit to trigger a sampled snare (like this one). I only do this if I have...

I'm looking at picking up a decent, lower end Les Paul; I've been looking at Epiphones on CL for $300~$400. I also have a good friend (and former bandmate) that has a Tradition S20 that he'll give up for $300. actually, that guitar has been sitting here at my house since our last band split, so...

So, right now, I have 2 Delta 1010lt cards in my computer. They work but, they're cheap and old and I think I'm ready for something better- I've been using these for about 8 years now. I have decent monitors and I think I have the acoustics of my room fairly well sorted out. I'd love to just...

quick question... I have 3 and a half pieces of 4" 703 left from my last project. At first I thought a new cloud over my mix position would be good, since what is there now is kind small- its 3" rockwool mounted on a plywood backing. So, I figured a thin metal or wood frame with the 703 wrapped...

Are any of you guys familiar with the Knauf or Johns Manville rigid fiberglass products? I'm comparing the sound absorption coefficients from each of the product data pages... Owens Corning 703 http://www.owenscorning.eu/docs/products/700series_DataSheet.pdf (see page 2, Sound Absorption...

So, this is my basement home studio. It isn't the prettiest thing- painted concrete walls and floor, no ceiling, but it actually functions pretty well. I have treatments up (moreso on the mixing side) and my mixes translate pretty well to the real world. I've had this space for about 4 years...

Looking for advise on tom mics. I record our band live in my basement "studio". I think I have all the basics covered, but I'm lacking in the tom department. Here's what I've got... (2) Octava MK012--- Drum Overheads AKG D112--- Kick Drum Senn E609--- Snare (actually sounds better than the sm57...

I record our band practices live- full drums, 2 guitars, 1 bass, 3 vocals. Right now, I have (2) 1010lt cards. I have a Soundcraft M8 mixer- I have the direct outs from all 8 channels going into one of the 1010lt's. I rigged up my old Behri board (an 802 maybe, I dont even know- but it isnt...

A guy on craigslist here is selling 2 VTB1 mic pre's for $80 each. He says they're a couple years old but only used a couple times and they've been in the box for years unused. Any thoughts? They go for $140 on mf.com. Anyone have opinions on these? Like em? Love em? Hate em? I'd be using...

and it has midi connections on the back. I dont know shit about midi- i dont even have a midi cable laying around. I also have a Delta 1010lt sound card with midi connections. Sooooo..... It occured to me- is there a way to connect the Lexicon fx processor up to my computer via midi and use...

Can someone tell me the difference between OC 703 (Ive held this stuff in my hand- so I know what it is) and "rock wool" and "mineral wool". Is all of this stuff the same thing? Are they completely different materials with essentially the same usefull accustical proerties? Is any superior? Is...

Gentlemen- Until recently, my band practiced in what I guess you would call the "parlor" in the house my girlfriend and I live in. It’s a 120-year-old farmhouse that we rent from my girlfriends father (so I have some leeway on construction- but not enough to gut the room or anything). About a...

I know a few of you out there are lawyers and such so here's my question. I work for an Architecture firm and one of my most current tasks is to take a few rendered animations of a church (.avi), make it into one and add our logo at the bottom for presentation to the above mentioned church. It...

so im thinkin of buying a pair of the behringer ecm8000 and finding an old manaquin head and making a binaural head (spelling?) to record our practices. This would not be for distribution or anything- more like to help along the writing process. Sometimes we mess around with a new song and the...