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I'm looking for a souncard that'll give me a quality AES/EBU or S/PDIF output for a benchmark DAC-1. I'm looking to spend the least I can to get 2 quality digital outputs (and maybe 2 digital inputs) through either lightpipe, coxial or xlr (preferebly xlr or coxial). I've seen a lot of posts...

Hi guys, A friend of mine is looking to run a total of about 12-channels of cable through his wall from the top floor of his house to his basement. I personally would never record an instrument so far from the mixer and monitors, but its his only choice. 10 of those channels will be for mics...

The idea of the mini-DAC is really great, and I heard the D/A is astounding, but it's about $1000 and can handle a number of of digital inputs I don't need. I'm looking for something that can hook up to the computer via firewire or usb and give me an output, on the level of motu d/a or better...

Yo, I have a David Eden Highwayman head from 98-99 or so, I bought it used at the local shop for $800 out the door 2 years ago, february. I think I'm the second owner, I could be wrong though. Gradually the amp starting getting lower and lower, and the noise of the DI output got louder and...

When you burn from an audio montage in wavelab you have the ability to select a burn speed, I have like a 40x burner, but i can pick either 1x, 2x, 4x, or 8x. No matter what I pick, the effective burn speed reads somewhere around 40x. Is there anyway to force wavelab to burn at say 1x or 2x for...

I read about this in a car audio installation article and saw it mentioned in a thread here. It's not really a studio building question. More of an acoustics one. The article talked about how a subwoofer box should be aimed facing the rear of the car because low frequency waves can be as long...

I've been looking at dedicated direct boxes and found this avalon box. Now it's only like $540, while all the other "good ones" are around $350. Maybe I'm being childish, but this is AVALON, isn't it pretty sick to have some avalon gear in your rack, $540 isn't bad. There's also that manley one...

My friend brought his guitar over the other day, a musicman silhoutte with a tremolo (but he took of the "whammy bar"). Usually he uses .009 or .010 gauge string sets, but the last time he changed his strings he decided to put on .012 gauge strings. I guess the thicker gauge requires more...

In trying to decide how much more RAM I need, I'm trying to figure out exactly how its used when mixing or tracking in recording software. Right now I have 512 MB or pc2100 ddr RAM, which seems to be a minimum based on the slightly unscientific poll i posted here :D. I know that many of my...

I was just fooling around with a project a friend sent me, when i got the windows xp version of the blue screen of death. It said that i should disable bios options such as Memory caching and shadowing (if i remember correctly). I don't have these options, the only options i have relate to ecc...

How much ram is everyone using in their DAW?

does anyone know of a software mp3 player that uses either wdm or asio drivers, because when i use windows media player or musicmatch i get pops and click through the windows mixer eric

my motherboard has onbaord video, and it'll support using the onboard video plus another agp card for dual monitors (i have xp pro). I have the two monitors set up and working with one weird exception. The second monitor, which happens to be an lcd, is in black and white, but not really, if that...

I hear a lot of the lynx cards for digital in and out, is there something that seperates them as far as sound quality from other cards? Do their digital ins/outs sound better than other cards? The reason I ask is because if I want to upgrade to seperate a/d conversion Ill need a soundcard with...

I'm on my third demo recording for friend's bands and my band is almost done with the album. If the album comes out good I'll have it professionally mastered. But as far as the demos go, when I try to mix and "master," some compression and peak limiting, seperately the relative levels of all the...

Is it common to use a mono reverb on a snare drum, or is there a specific setting that might effect the width of a reverb? I reealize im working with relatively poor plugins compared to the outboard units they might have in big studios, but a problem i always have with snare drum reverb is that...

Is it common to use a mono reverb on a snare drum, or is there a specific setting that might effect the width of a reverb? I reealize im working with relatively poor plugins compared to the outboard units they might have in big studios, but a problem i always have with snare drum reverb is that...

A friend of mine just bought sitar, I guess he just thought it would be funny, because he doesnt play sitar or guitar or any instrument for that matter. Does anyone know anything about string/tuning them, I told him that I could probably help just from what I know about music, even if all the...

The other day my math teacher, in introducing trigonometry, started talking about sine waves in music. He was saying how different instruments sound different because the sine waves they create are each distorted in a different way (as in mishaped). But I *know* thats not true, because last year...

I got my first radio airplay, dec 30th at about 11:10 on WLIR's Tri State Sound. I have to give huge thanks to everyone here for their recording guidance. I'll be posting some samples so everyone can critique my mix before it becomes final, as soon as I get a new mobo and get my new DAW...