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Anyone heard anything about this stuff? Can't really find any specifics on the site but here's the link...

We've been recording our band rehearsals on a digital 8-track. With our setup I can get 3 mics on the drum kit. Right now I've got one on the snare, one on the kick, and an overhead. I've played around with the height/position of the overhead some, but was curious if there are any rules of...

Can RG6 cable be used for speaker wiring? I've got a lot of it left over from an antenna job I did a while back and am trying to come up with some other beneficial use. Alex

So I learned a couple of lessons the hard way (is there any other?) and thought I'd pass 'em along: Rule 1 - TIN YOUR TIP If the tip of your soldering iron is not bright and shiny with solder, it WILL NOT conduct enough heat for you components to get hot enough for the solder to flow. Simply...

I'm in the market for an 8-channel preamp with 8 analog outputs to feed into a Korg D1600 cause the onboard preamps are noisy as hell. It needs to have phantom power on each channel but that's about it. I've thought of getting a decent mixer used just for the preamps but don't really need all...

We did some recording at a nice studio up in Burbank and now I'm trying to mix it all together. It's a big step up from my usual have-everyone-play-at-once-and-record-it-all-on-eight-tracks routine so I'm in new territory. I've been jerking things around for about a month and am fairly happy...

It appears the horn went out on one of our old Yamaha floor monitors. I pulled it apart and saw the diaphragm was corroded. Took it to a speaker repair/parts place, guy checked it, and said it was still getting a current through it. He recommended against getting a new diaphragm without...

Here's my set-up: Korg D1600 16-track HD recorder. M-box with Protools LE on Mac G4. Mackie 1604 I was hoping to be close to done but the guru's over in the mixing & mastering neck filled my head with visions of analog mix down (something about "bad" buss summing of DSPs). Anyway, if I did...

From a thread back in March, I followed Ausrock's suggestion of installing a second sliding glass door in a newly framed wall to isolate two existing sliding glass doors on the south wall of my live room. The new wall is framed with 2x4's, with rockwool in the cavity; two layers of gypsum...

Does anyone recognize this type of mixer? Interface Electronics? Is this just a hack one-off from somewhere or could there be some decent history behind it? Let me know. Alex

Anyone have any experience or comments--good, bad, indifferent--about the the White Instruments 4001 EQ unit? I'm looking for an EQ unit to place in the signal chain of our live setup. The EQ available on the old Mackie CR-1604 just isn't cutting it. Thanks, Alex

So I just read the post from Jonathan in the discussion on Don's studio saying that carpet & pad ontop of concrete sounds bad. Bummer. That's what I was planning on doing. Does anyone else have experience with other floor coverings for concrete? My construction budget is already way-tapped...

OK, I'm finally (finally, finally, finally...) nearing completion on my live rehearsal/recording/whatever room that I originally thought I might finish in March. Oh well, it's been fun. Thanks to all who have provided input up to this point. In any case I'm starting to consider wall...

I'd appreciate any feedback on any of the three songs at: http://www.hueromusic.com/MUSIC.htm This is about the third try of a mix and maybe about the best I can do with what I've got. All recording was done on 8-tracks with a Korg D1600. The songs were recorded "live" at a warehouse with...

Are there manufacturers who produce kits suitable for use as main rather than near-field monitors? I've run across some sub-$3,000 deals on used main monitors (passive) that would work for my ~ 400 sq. ft. studio, but I'm curious if I could do better building my own, as I've seen recommended...

I'm getting ready to start finishing the walls to my rehearsal space and have begun to question my pre-thought layering scheme. I had to pull off all of the existing interior cladding so the room-within-a-room concept became a little financially daunting. I've filled all the wall and ceiling...

I'm helping a friend build a room within a room rehearsal space in his garage, and we're following the inside-out wall & ceiling design per Left Bank and other diagrams at the SAE site. From the drawings I've seen it appears that the sheetrock stops at the top of the walls. At the interface...

The room I'm working in has an existing window-mount air conditioner that I'm considering relocating to inside my rehearsal space by installing it in a window casement within the enclosure. I plan to seal it around the edges and suitably isolate the remaining exposed portions of the window...

Has anyone here ever had to isolate an existing sliding glass door (or pair of doors in my case) to the outside? I've somewhat abandoned the room-within-a-room concept due to budgetary and aesthetic constraints. I think I can get decent enough isolation by redoing the existing walls and...

I'm new so pardon any retreads. I've looked at the SAE site as well as several ongoing and previous threads but have few questions I can't yet figure out. I've got a 600 sq. ft. outbuilding on my property with a roughly 20' x 20' open room that I want to convert into rehearsal space (I'll try...