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Hi guys. I used to practically live on this forum many years ago but for one reason or another i kind of lost interest in recording. I moved house, my RME Fireface 800 got broke and i couldn't afford to have it repaired and ever since then i never really got back into it ... But i have moved...

Hi all, I used to record a lot with my RME Fireface 800. I bought it Used on ebay and got about 2 years daily use out of it until 1 day for no apparent reason it stopped working .. I shipped it to the distributor who sent it back to the German factory where they concluded that the motherboard...

Hey guys i replaced my old heatsink with one of these and the differnce is unbelieveable... my computer used to sound like a lawn mower. can anyone suggest a solution to my next problem ... i believe it must be my HDD - it is making like a vroom vroom noise ... its a samsung 250 Gb drive...

ok guys, simple question ... the heatsink in my pc is very noisy and it needs to be replaced. can any one suggest a good heatsink. i remember reading on this forum a while ago that zalman are the best ? thanks in advance :)

Hey Guys, haven't posted a tune in a while. This is a band i recorded using my RME Fireface 800 ... The song is called Weekend ... Weekend Please feel free to criticise as much as you like. It can only make my mixing better. Cheers. :)

Ok, I know that I should be recording each instrument seperatly to avoid mic bleeding and thus give more options when mixing as far as EQ is concerned ... However , i am going to be recording a 2 piece acoustic group and they prefer to play sitting right next to one another? is there any way...

Hey guys i built my computer for recording about 8 months ago and haven't had any problems until recently. It has began to power itself off for no reason. I have run every anti virus software i have and anti spyware programs . I am beginning to think it may be a hardware problem such as the...

Hey guys I thought it would be useful to start a thread where people can post useful links or links to other Recording forums ... I've been on this forum for a long time ..I have ventured on to other forums on occasions but never really found them to be as helpful as this one ...none the less i...

Rack Gear - Compressors, Limiters, Multi Band Compressors, Guitar FX, Gates, Eq, Reverb, Delays .... Here's my gear: Interface RME Fireface 800 Monitors Warfedale 8.2 Pro Actives Microphones MXL 992, 993 Studio Projects B1 Shure SM58 x 4 Software Sonar 5 Producer Edition Waves Diamond...

I recorded this band the other day ... All very talented musicians...This song is called Something Blue ... Everything was recorded in the loft of a barn using my RME Fireface 800... Here it is... Something Blue Let me know what you guys think of my mixing ... :) All

Hey guys... simple question... i recorded a band today and the lead guitarist plays a tele ....we miced up his marshall amp with a shure sm58 pointed at an angle about 1 inch from the cone ...i also put a studio projects b1 about 2 foot back from the amp... the guitarist is brilliant, the...

Ok ... simple question regarding micing up a drum kit... When i record drums i use 4 Mono Tracks Kick - Mono - Panned Centre Snare - Mono - Panned Centre Left Overhead - Mono - Panned Hard Left Right Overhead - Mono - Panned Hard Right Here is my question... Should I be arming the...

Hey guys... Need a bit of help with compressing drums... I read this in the Mixing Engineer's Handbook... but i can't seem to be able to work out how to do it in Sonar.... Here is the excerpt from the book... ..."The New York Compression Trick One of the little tricks that seems to set the...

Hey guys, i may be completely stupid, but for some reason i can't hear any midi playback in Sonar... I am using the RME Fireface 800..Can anyone suggest what i may be doing wrong... I have the fireface set up as my midi device for both input and output.. please help... :confused:

Hey guys, i have recently mixed a few songs so that the master volume peaks around -0.7 Db.... I have now realized that i shouldn't be peaking that high on the master volume ... because i need to leave headroom for mastering... So i was wondering what would be the standard master volume level...