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If you are putting several songs on a CD, what is your technique of making them sound equally loud?

Has anyone tried expanding Motif ES with mLAN16E yet? Since I don't own Motif (yet) I am very interested to hear from brave people on the following: 1. How would you rate the quality of Motif ES/mLAN16E combination as a firewire computer audio interface? How does its quality compare to...

Just read an article that if F5 is pressed during a very early stage of a clean XP Pro or Home installation from the CD, it brings up a window allowing to choose the processor type. If i486 processor option is chosen, the system will turn the infamous CPUID module off, and after installation it...

I grabbed a pair of AudioTechnica DR-HX100 headphones during recent sale at Guitar Center. It seemed that I can't go wrong paying $30 for a $100 piece of gear. The sound turned out to be OK for the price paid, but there was something that I've never ever experienced before: I put them on...

What media do you all use for backup? Just read an article that Dutch computer magazine PC Active had done tests on several brands of CD-Rs. They recorded 30 disks of various manufacturers back in 2001 and sealed them in a box. In 2003 they opened the box and tested the disks - 10% could not...

On a CD with drums samples by ProSamples (East West) I read: "The licensee may modify the sounds and may use the sounds for commercial purposes within musical compositions subject to section 7 below." Section 7: "Use of the included sound samples in "library music" (also known as "production...

Have anybody used Voxengo Soniformer plugin (former Sonic Finalizer)? Voxengo website cleims: " Many of our tests at Voxengo have revealed that even a professionally mastered audio track can be adjusted by Soniformer, resulting in a new level of sonic excellence. " Thats a strong claim and its...

Does anyone have experience with the Film Music Network? Is it worth $10/month? Can I join and then cancel my membership after a month? Thanks.

I wonder, how does CD-R color effect its quality of sound? Lately I purchased Verbatim "Vinyl cd-r". Reflective side of the disk was blue, and label side looked exactly as small vinyl record of 45 rpm size. They just looked so damn nice that I couldn't help buying a pack. So I burned one and...

What would be the most comfortably playable cheap electric guitar? I need one for practicing and home studio work. Also, cheap guitars appear to be manufactured in China, Indenesia, Korea etc. What country of origin is more preferable?

A floppy disk with important information suddenly became being seen as unformatted. I don't think that it was accidentally demagnitized, most likely its FAT is corrupted, or something like that. How can I restore data from this disk? Norton Disk Doctor? Thanks.

Re: Matrox Parhelia Does anyone have experience with this card? Please share. I tried Matrox G550 at one time. The text sure looked much sharper, but overall I found it slower than my cheapo SIS315/64mb card. This was especially anoying at high magnifications in Nuendo. I wonder, how Parhelia...

Is there an easy and fast way to change overall volume of a track with extensive volume automation without redrawing the automation line? To work around the problem I would insert a plugin with gain control. With all plugin processing turned off I would only use the gain control to up or down...

I know that this module was discontinued by Roland due to sounds copyright infringement. Does anyone know details of this old story? What exactly the infringement was? In particular I am interested to know, whether it is OK to use the sounds from this module for commercial purposes? Or maybe...

It is a long read, but its worth it... http://www.prosoundweb.com/recpit/viewtopic.php?t=2176

I have both ways MIDI connection between Roland XP and computer. Whenever I boot computer while Roland is already on, the synth falls into a MIDI loop and becomes uncontrollable. Roland is constantly sending out some timing MIDI messages, and apparently computer passes them through and sends...

How about we put together a list of available GOOD and FREE plugins with short user's comments? Maybe free software as well. To begin with, here is my link: http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/freeware/98/ Unfortunately I haven't used any of those, so I can't comment.

In partuclar the Spektral Shaper " is a FFT based 4096 bands equalizer alike effect which affects only magnitudes. The purpose of this plugin is the ability to capture a preset from another wave file and apply it to your sample. That is, to apply a 4096 bands equalizer setting from a captured...

Are there any typical requirements to demo cassette tape? I mean what kind of tape, Dolby or not etc..? Dos and Donts, please. Your advice would be appreciated.

Sometimes tracks that sound OK on their own don't play together too well. In some cases I notice existance of pretty unpleasant high frequency harmonics. Applying spectrum analyzer to the mix does not reveal any particular frequency to stand out. What is the best way / technique / tool to...