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    Card advice?

    can anyone tell me what is the cheapest audio card with spdif in and out (coax)? i blew my wad on a new aw4416 and a used computer which came with a vortex sq1500 sound card in it. the vortex has a spdif output but i cant get it to work. i am almost broke now so recommendations for cheapest...
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    OT - wallpaper

    anyone know where i can get some cool recording/music related desktop wallpaper for my new recording computer? thanks
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    is this computer good enough for recording?

    a friend just gave me a 475 mhz compact presario 5441 minus the hard drive and ram ... would it be worth it to buy a hard drive , ram and a sound card for the purpose of using sound forge or something like it? i would like to mix down from my aw4416 to sound forge for further editing i know...
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    some tunes

    newbie + 840ex any comments appreciated http://www.nowhereradio.com/rufuskahn/singles thanks
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    panning overheads

    do you guys pan your overhead drum mics hard left and right? when i do this it sounds unnatural and cymbals and hihat are too "stereo" ... should i be panning them less hard? or maybe this is a phase issue ? i never had this problem with my old drum machine but live drums are a diffrent animal
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    pre / post?

    this is probably a stupid question but... am i to understand that setting the aux outs on my mixer to prefader is for monitor sends and postfader is for effects sends? or am i totally wrong here thanks
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    yamaha 2816

    i am gearing up to buy a new recorder... i am looking hard at the yamaha aw2816. anyone have any opionions of this machine? thanks
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    cable distance

    anyone know how far i can run the cable from my analog rca outputs on my roland vs840 to my computer(for mixdown) before i start to lose sound quality? my recording space is in the basement and my computer is up stairs... can i just get a really long cable? or couple 2 together? or is this a bad...
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    cheap mixer

    im looking for a small cheap (under $100) mixer for some submixing...anyone ever used the phonic MM1202? price looks good but i wonder if anyone here has used this mixer and what they thought. i dont expect a whole lot from it.or should i go with a beringer...
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    analyzer

    anyone know of a spectrum analyzer prog? or a plugin that will work with sound forge?
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    overheads...how to?

    im brand new to drum recording and i need to know how to place the overheads.i read tubedudes thread and i will try that method but i wonder if there is a standard way of doing this. what is X/Y? any other methods? i am using a pair of mxl 603's overhead and a 57 for snare and a beta 52 for kick...
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    recommend drum mics?

    i have 350 $ to spend on drum mics... anyone want to recommend something decent at that price? i already have a 57 and a 58 and an at4033 i was thinkin maybe a kick mic and a couple of cheap overheads???? whatdya think...
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    saving in S F

    in sound forge when i save an mp3 it always saves at 64kbps even if the original file is 128 ,160 or higher... when i "save as" i can choose the quality but if i just "save" then it automatically goes to 64. my question is can i change this somehow? maybe to save everything at 320kbps...
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    switch

    hi all anyone know how to make a SIMPLE stereo line level switch? i have 2 sets of monitors each with its own amp... i want to put some kind of switch between my recorder (vs840ex) and the amps so i can switch between them without having to turn one amp off and the other on everytime i want...
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