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  1. guhlenn

    Sonar 7 and M-audio 49e trouble

    Hi there, I recently installed sonar 7 on a new machine, but nonw my MIDI keyboard has some trouble. It might be a pc thing, but i;m sspecting sonar is the issue. anyway, i installed the drivers, but soft synths wont produce sound. I';m very new to MIDI, so feel free to point to obvious...
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    Sonar 3 projects compatible with sonar 7?

    well, really just a short question. been meaning to do a long overdue update, but well, in fear that i will lose all my project settings... Does sonar 7 allow m,e to use my sonar 3 project files? If not, can i run 3 and 7 simultaneously? Much appreciated, (and did check Sonar's FAQ... ;) ) G
  3. guhlenn

    why NOT use a digital mixer?

    been thinking about this,and as most people over the years went nuts when asked for opinions on digital mixers, I never went that route. So i have an old soundcraft 24 channel beast, and M-audio 1814. Time to upgrade/expand :) I could really help my CPU by using the onboard gates compressors...
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    hardisk capacity maxed out, S3

    Now I figured i could bounce groups of instruments (drums, guitars) to stereo tracks and archive the original tracks. haven;t tried it yet. got scared (literally , sonar was acting a little ehm, strange) it;s a 2x 7200 rpm hardisk and athlon something machine. 32 tracks, about 24 effects...
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    AKG 414, AT 4050 or?

    WHat do you all think. GEnerally all-purpose multi pattern condesnor, but should specifically be able to make male somewhat nasal sound really shine. And which pre-amp? DAV is obvious suspect... ULN-2 also very temptin... used for rock music. thank you:)
  6. guhlenn

    panning and volume programming, some help?

    Hi there, I'm using sonar 3 (he...) and am wondering whether you guys could help me in a "check this and that and then do your homework" kinda way Is it possible to draw volume changes and panning changes within a track? I guess this could be possible with MIDI, but so far I've only record...
  7. guhlenn

    compressor side chain; i don;t quite get it

    what's the thing with a side chain for a compressor. I read lots of interesting stuff about it, but don;t quite grasp the concept. Mind you, i know what a compressor does. IT's just that i don't get what th side chain function typically is used for? thank you.
  8. guhlenn

    help me chose, or just burn my choices to the ground

    Looking at good mic. Will try, but always like opinions. so here goes; sennhieser MD441 beyer M88, m160 AT 4033 will eb used in general, but for ambient and vocals in specific. I'm leaning toqwards the m160. but heard and loved others too. the md441 is actually out of budget, but can be had...
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    monitor experience or suggestions?

    Hi all. I did the search, but ended up in the pic's of women vs political bullshit thread. Thanks, that cost me an hour. but it was a good hour, might i take the oppertunity to thank for the redhead that was compared to maria? If Maria looked like that, then DAMN that Jozef, what an idiot...
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    Sonar 3 wav ouput issues

    windows media player tells me some AIFF code is wrong and just is silent, winamp and other players start to play, but when I skip through the song it the music turns to horrible distortion. Nero wont burn it as wav bacause of "errors". I can convert it to mp3 and then evrything is fine. This...
  11. guhlenn

    M-audio firewire 1814

    Hi there, Since the computer forum seems to be silent, i hope you'll let me post here... I can;t seem to get a normal latency using Sonar and the M-audio firewire 1814. The waveprofiler sets it to an astounashing 235 msec! i can get it down to about 50-100 msec, but anywhere near 10 msec...
  12. guhlenn

    Soundcard question- firewire or not?

    I'm deciding for a friend what card to purchase. will be used with a soundcraft 200. no ned for mic preamps.. maybe two, so i can do some remote tracking of piano or... Now a budget of 500 is not much i know, but he might pay a little more. I have seen all the usual suspects. quality is mid...
  13. guhlenn

    Soundcraft serie 200

    hi all, i can get one of these for pretty cheap but info on the net is very poor. I'm guesing this is the older model of the 200B? Anyway. my question is wheteher this is a decent desk (compared to say mackey VLZ or whatever) and if i understand correctly that i can use the jack inserts as a...
  14. guhlenn

    digi 001 and software (be gentle) or Layla24

    I might get one (350). I can get a layla24 for even less(200). But i like the monitor volume knob (from experience, it is worth something...) and protools. But do i get all the fancy schmancy plug ins and things? I really cannot tell from the website. prices are insane so the plugs and software...
  15. guhlenn

    MD 441 repair

    Hi, just wanted to know if anyone could help me repair a MD441 (sennheiser) . The red wire just came off due to bad soldering (an i do mean really bad soldering, i suspect they replaced the old DIN (?) with XLR...), which is easy enough to fix. However, the bass roll-off switch just shut s the...
  16. guhlenn

    Md441 placement on guitar amps

    Just purchased one (for an unbelievable 160 euro's... lucky me. hope it works... LOL bought seconb hand) SO suggestions as to usage/placement on overdriven guitar amps? Thanks! G
  17. guhlenn

    laptop, please help

    hey, thinking about getting a laptop... SOOO... ofcourse i don't want to throw money out of the window.. what should i look at or is it just a pc in a smaller package? (stuff like which battery good/bad, harddrive should be 7200 right?, need firewire io what are minimum specs) Sorry I can't be...
  18. guhlenn

    mixing heavy music

    as a sort of addition to the heavy reference list, I would really like to discuss some mixing techniques here of the heavy engineers/producers. I got new monitors and all of sudden i can see why compression sucks. LOL I put on the American HEad Charge album and really missed the defintion in...
  19. guhlenn

    passive diamond 8.2 review

    Sooo, i finally got my Wharfedales 8.2p .I decided to go with passives since the cone is yellow... No seriously i just didn't like the idea (the PRO and all...) and since for almost the same amount of money I could hook it up to a bryston 2B LP PRO... I test drove it yesterday with a very bad...
  20. guhlenn

    beyerdynamics ribbon's

    Can anyone tell me waht the dirfference in dsound is between teh m160 and m260? Will be used for guitar amp and possibly female vocals. And all other on which i like it ;) Thanks!
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