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    Best wood type for a Drum Riser??

    Hey guys I'm going to be building a drum riser to help decouple my drums from the rest of the house. Its a pretty basic design two 6x8 plywood sheets with 2x4s 12 inch spaced for supports then im going to sit them on 1inch rubber coasters. My question is should for the wood should I use...
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    Headphones for recording drums(while playing)

    I need some headphoens badly for recording drums. Anybody have some that work well? (I do have a maple starclassic so all the ones i have cant do crap for how loud I play and the drums are). ive been looking at the vic firths but they only do 24 db, and then there is the sound isolation ones...
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    building cab odd dimensions

    Well, I've decided to embark on another cab, so ive been scoping the 3/4 inch birch plywood at lowes for 30 bucks, and my friend has this emenince deisgner program where you basically input all the info of your speakers, and it tells you the right interal box volume. What I found is odd, is no...
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    Tolex and grill cloth.. not so cheap

    Well i decided I would make my own cab using a friends eminence designer, and I must say the cab turned out awesome, but I am pretty much regretting ever building it now that I see how expensive grill cloth and tolex is. Does anybody here know anywhere to find some that is not so pricey? Maybe I...
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    Does the order of effects matter?

    Just curious as to what is the preferred way to run effects. like is it supposed to go, compressor -> eq ->reverb orrr... just curious as to what works the best
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    best positions for 8 mics

    About to record my drums just curious on any ideas on how i should positon my mics. I have 8 inputs, a 5 piece kit , plus hihat, 2crash, ride cym, and a china. would 1 mic per drum, and 1 over head left, 1 overhead right plus maybe one for the hihat be my best bet? any tips would be awesome...
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    Getting a nice warm vocal track

    I need a little help on setting up compression levels for a lead vocalist (he is a really good singer, but we dont have the best equipment to say.) I just ordered a presonus firepod but its no in yet so i want be on top of things when it gets here. But ive been using just an sm57 to record him...
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    Multi track software suggestion for Band

    I'm just curious on what some peoples suggestions are with what software to use for recording live music, drums, guitars, vocals etc.. I have just ordered the emu1212 sound card and a behringer ada 8000 to get me started. I currently use adobe audtion to record each drum into its own track. I...
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    multitrack recording on a pc

    I was just curious does anyone have any advice on what is the best for under 400 bucks to get multi-input channels to my pc. My pc has plentyof juice, athlon 3000+ 7200rpm hard drive with 8meg buffer, gig of 3200 ram. i was looking at something like a behringer ultragain, but i dont have an adat...
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    Help with setting up proper mic trim levels

    I need a little help setting up the mic'ing of my kit. My setup is a little umm.. makeshift you could say. Basically I use my computer which has 2 sound cards, so thats 2 stereo line ins. I have one Mixer which has (3toms,HH,and 4 cymbals) all eq'ed and ready for input. The second mixer has the...
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    Question about hooking up inserts.

    I was just curious on how could I hook my dbx compressor to my mixer so that i can compress my bass drum, and snare drum. My mixer has 2 inserts, and 2 sets of aux in and aux returns. My compressor has inserts, input and output. I just dont know what wire goes where. and how do i make the signal...
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