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If you are putting several songs on a CD, what is your technique of making them sound equally loud?

Has anyone tried expanding Motif ES with mLAN16E yet? Since I don't own Motif (yet) I am very interested to hear from brave people on the following: 1. How would you rate the quality of Motif ES/mLAN16E combination as a firewire computer audio interface? How does its quality compare to...

Just read an article that if F5 is pressed during a very early stage of a clean XP Pro or Home installation from the CD, it brings up a window allowing to choose the processor type. If i486 processor option is chosen, the system will turn the infamous CPUID module off, and after installation it...

I grabbed a pair of AudioTechnica DR-HX100 headphones during recent sale at Guitar Center. It seemed that I can't go wrong paying $30 for a $100 piece of gear. The sound turned out to be OK for the price paid, but there was something that I've never ever experienced before: I put them on...

What media do you all use for backup? Just read an article that Dutch computer magazine PC Active had done tests on several brands of CD-Rs. They recorded 30 disks of various manufacturers back in 2001 and sealed them in a box. In 2003 they opened the box and tested the disks - 10% could not...

On a CD with drums samples by ProSamples (East West) I read: "The licensee may modify the sounds and may use the sounds for commercial purposes within musical compositions subject to section 7 below." Section 7: "Use of the included sound samples in "library music" (also known as "production...

Have anybody used Voxengo Soniformer plugin (former Sonic Finalizer)? Voxengo website cleims: " Many of our tests at Voxengo have revealed that even a professionally mastered audio track can be adjusted by Soniformer, resulting in a new level of sonic excellence. " Thats a strong claim and its...

Does anyone have experience with the Film Music Network? Is it worth $10/month? Can I join and then cancel my membership after a month? Thanks.

I wonder, how does CD-R color effect its quality of sound? Lately I purchased Verbatim "Vinyl cd-r". Reflective side of the disk was blue, and label side looked exactly as small vinyl record of 45 rpm size. They just looked so damn nice that I couldn't help buying a pack. So I burned one and...

What would be the most comfortably playable cheap electric guitar? I need one for practicing and home studio work. Also, cheap guitars appear to be manufactured in China, Indenesia, Korea etc. What country of origin is more preferable?

A floppy disk with important information suddenly became being seen as unformatted. I don't think that it was accidentally demagnitized, most likely its FAT is corrupted, or something like that. How can I restore data from this disk? Norton Disk Doctor? Thanks.

Re: Matrox Parhelia Does anyone have experience with this card? Please share. I tried Matrox G550 at one time. The text sure looked much sharper, but overall I found it slower than my cheapo SIS315/64mb card. This was especially anoying at high magnifications in Nuendo. I wonder, how Parhelia...

Is there an easy and fast way to change overall volume of a track with extensive volume automation without redrawing the automation line? To work around the problem I would insert a plugin with gain control. With all plugin processing turned off I would only use the gain control to up or down...

I know that this module was discontinued by Roland due to sounds copyright infringement. Does anyone know details of this old story? What exactly the infringement was? In particular I am interested to know, whether it is OK to use the sounds from this module for commercial purposes? Or maybe...

It is a long read, but its worth it... http://www.prosoundweb.com/recpit/viewtopic.php?t=2176