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Is anyone using a Mac as opposed to a PC? I've been a diehard PC user for 10+ years now but I've always heard that the Mac was rumored to be better for graphics and audio. Fact, fiction?

Hello folks. I'm running an Aardvark Q-10 into a fast PC with Cubase SX and I want to record some of my material using only a Fender Rhodes through a Fender Twin and my voice. How would you suggest I set this up for the fullest possible sound with such an empty instrumentation? Two mics on...

This is Rhinoplast, the ska band I'm playing sax/organ and singing a bit in. I posted some stuff months ago but we scrapped in in an attempt to get things sounding better. And we did.. but.. I'll be damned.. it's so quiet and not very big.. take a listen. Our instrumentation...

Greets board, I'm recording tonite and I was reading something about the Behringer ECM8000's and how they make decent affordable overhead mics. I went onto the Mars Music site (since I have one very close by) and it listed the description as: ****** The ECM8000's linear frequency response...

Mornin' folks, Just went through my box of crap and found a large diaphragm condensor mic in a blue box. It came with my Aardvark that I purchased a year ago and I haven't put it to use yet. It's an SE Electronics SE2000 and the company was just giving the things away so it makes me a bit...

Could someone give me a brief overview of phasing in a nutshell? I have to mic a drum kit tomorrow and have read some things about phasing.. what is it and how do I make it work for me, not against me!? Thanks! -Rick, Detroit

Hm, thing didn't take my post. From before.... ..... So I'm recording my band tomorrow. We've all had the week off for about 3 months now and we're quite ready to get things going. Two weeks ago I formatted my hard drive and cleaned it up real good and installed a fresh copy of my OS, Win...

So I'm about to record the local band I'm with again. Drums and bass (direct) first. Last time we did it things came out ok, this time we're hoping for much better. I've read up on some technique, we're going to rent some hotter mics and we're all totally geeked abot this. However, The...

I'm not quite sure what's up. I've got the newest drivers installed for Win 2000 (7.0 from the Aardvark website). I'm running: 1700 Athlon 1024 ram This thing is cooking fast. This happens in cubase but ALSO outside: When I'm playing an mp3 through my Aardvark and my monitors for instance...

Hey guys, what's the hottest ready-to-go drum plugin-in/sample? I'm doing some small stuff where I'm going to midi the drums up (god I love drummers that have perfect time) and want it to sound hot. Any suggestions? Thanks!

Hi, I just reinstalled Cubase and I'm getting a strange popping noise in the tune whenever I open up the mixer window or move around to do things while a tune is playing. I've got over a gig of memory, running 1.4 ghz. I shouldn't have any serious memory issues.. Oh yeah, Aardvark Q10! Any...

Can you guys recommend a good multiband EQ software? I'm running Cubase and only have access to the 4-band Eq that it comes with. It's quite frustrating as there are more cuts and pumps I need to add. Any advice would be fantastic. Thanks, Rhino_Rick Detroit, MI

Is it just me, or is Cubase insanely buggy? Like, one time I'll load up a song, and it won't play. I'll hit the play button and the numbers won't move. Or the numbers will move and the song won't be heard until I go out to my outside audio settings and come back in? I'm finding numerous...

Need some opinions. I'm not very good at this thing yet. Rhinoplast is a 5 piece punk-ska band. My voice isn't very great, but the rest of things are pretty decent. Give me a thumbs up or down and some level adjustments and I'll love you forever. Really. Music file--...

Hey folks, it's me again. I'm having an issue recording a trombone and tenor sax simutaneously. We're clipping the hell out of the mic. We're recording into an Aardvark Q10 with an Sm58. Any suggestions? We've turned the gain way down but then we start losing the quality of the room. We're...

So I've got a bunch of old recordings I've done in cubase sitting on my hard drive. Something gets out of whack and Cubase says something to the effect of the sample rates being different and it changes it. Now all of my old recordings are in 1/2 speed and sound really funny when played back...

This will probably spring a debate, but what are the best studio reference monitors I can pick up within the $300 (give or take a few dollars) range? I'm buying next week and your vote will settle it. I've got a small home studio, using an Aardvark Q10 and Cubase VST. Thanks guys. -Rick

I'm kinda new to all this fun stuff, so I've got a question. I record full audio stuff in cubase, export to wav, convert to mp3, and then burn to a CD. I'm sure I'm losing quality in this process. What's a better way to get stuff from my Cubase to the final resting place? I've got an...

So I've read a lot the last few days. Every says to run a bass through the compressor. How in the 'ell do you do that? I'm using Cubase and I've got a ton of plugins for it. If I go to the bass track, click "INS" (Insert?), turn it on and select dynamics and set up the compression, when does...

So I'm going to be recording again real soon. Last time I tried to record some thrashing distortion guitar (punk ska, baby), the distortion was sending my cards levels into the red. I turned it down a lot and it didn't help much. How much does this affect things? I always know not to push...