Recent content by Sangram

Hi My Delta 66 balanced outputs are acting funny. The hot signal is fine with 0 offset and a strong level, but the cold signal has no or very little signal and a very high offset - about 20 mV. The card was picked up used, and for a long time was run using unbalanced inputs on other equipment...

One of the most popular mobos for the AMD platform is the Asus A7N8X 2.0, deluxe version. A fully loaded board with Firewire, SATA, lots of USB 2 ports, Soundstorm with on-the-fly DD 5.1 encoding, etc. Unfortunately, the board has a major issue with SATA in RAID 0. It introduces severe...

... basically lots of popping, distortion and crackling. Is anyone using the exact same combo? And if yes, experiencing any pops during playback/recording, specially during disk activity? I have tried: 1. PCI latency settings in BIOS 2. ACPI/APIC disabled in BIOS 3. Non-overclocked setup...

I'm basically a writer-guitarist, kind of like Bob Dylan or Pete Seeger (except my skills are about 1% of theirs, heh), and we have a little band, and I've basically started writing and putting my own stuff down. Unfortunately, I need more instruments - strings, sax, brass - at least for the...

I read up the article on the home page that talks about recording to VCR tape being quite a good way to get analog 'warmth' into the sound, and the quality is very good, so long the tape is in good condition. The question: Is it better to record a take to tape, and then digitise it? Bear in...

I'm looking out for a nice card. My choice earlier was the Audiophile, but recently I've been seeing a crop of cards that have microphone preamp built-in, something that's tempting since I won't be able to repeatedly order stuff online because of stiff duties. There are two cards I'm looking...

Hi I've been meaning to ask this for a long time. I need some equipment for my DAW and audio work, as the kind of stuff you get in India is overpriced (an Audiophile costs $350) and there's very poor support. I was thinking if I could get some help from one of you good folks in terms of...

Check out the attachment. No level corrections are helping!!! Recording off tape deck into SB Live! Value card. Tried latest drivers, switching off ACPI, everything. Second problem: Refuses to record in anything above 22.05 KHz, any sample rate above gives the same kind of recording, but on...

Hi I just got my hands on one of these vintage guys. Has anyone used this receiver before? If so, any opinions? I think it's from the late 70's. Sounds really good to me, but I'm not sure how it would be on a scale of 1 to 10. How would this amp do for a monitoring setup? It's got an analog...

Is it possible to whip up a set of homebrew monitors at all, if I design the cabinets properly and use good drive units/crossovers/cables? If it is (I think not but I wanna hear if it's doable) what should I be looking for? Has anyone done this sorta stuff? Or is it not worth time/effort. If...

Hi I am in the process of putting my entire collection of tapes (500+) on to CDs. Way too much time on my hands. Anyway, I've run into a few tapes that badly need to be cleaned up - not hiss removal, but strabge sounding recordings with the entire top end lost, etc. I tried my hand at redoing...

Hi I use SB Live! Value on a KT 266A motherboard, Seagate Barracuda III 20 GB disk. I dual boot between 98SE (actually, 98Lite) and Win 2K professional with SP2. 98 is used for gaming, and 2K was (supposedly) my audio platform. I'm taking input from a tape deck (cassette), and my guitar amp...

OK here's the thing, I use a single channel (mono, no name local) mixer+mic Preamp to feed my SB Live! Value PCI soundcard. somehow all pro and semi Pro equipment in this country manufactured by imitators is called 'BOSS' for some strange reason. I've custom built a 1/4 to 1/8 patch cable...

Hi I was planning to get a pair of these next month when they're coming to the country. Any opinions/experiences? Can I expect good quality monitors? I don't want to be a guinea pig, these things are a month's pay for me. http://www.midiman.net/products/m-audio/studiophile.php Thanks Sang

Hi, A few questions about USB audio: 1. Is USB OK for 24/96 recording? Is it able to effectively stream audio of this bitrate into the computer (I'm not really sure this is a good question, why wouold anyone be hoping to make money from products that don't work? 2. There isn't that much of a...