Recent content by EdWonbass

FS Tube in great condition. Comes with original box and all the stuff that came with it when it was new. It has never left the rack in my smoke free garage/studio.

As the title says, I have been checking out Mackie Tracktion3. I downloaded the demo and have been messing around with it for a few days. It seems to do most of the things I would need it to do. As soon as my midi keyboard controller get here I will be able to try it out with more stuff. A...

Hey Guys I recorded my band almost a year ago and due to a bunch of things we are just now getting around to getting the thing done. In the time since we did the initial tracking I have been adding equipment and getting better at recording drums. For example, I didn't have a pair of condensers...

Why does everyone keep the speaker grills off of their monitors? I have a pair of Wharfedale 8.2's that came with speaker grills. I have pretty much left them on so far to protect the speakers from dust and a cat named Blue. Is there a disadvantage to leaving them on? I notice that most every...

OK here's the deal, I got me some of that good ole insulation and I need to cover with some frabric. I have of course read up just like the next guy but I am still not sure what is considered suitable. My question is this. Can a bed sheet be used? I figure that I can get large areas of fabric...

I have been concerned with clipping lately. I don't actually hear it and my clip lights don't light up but I wonder if it can still be happening. I guess I am worried because it seems so common. When I record I make sure the clip light on my Firebox isn't lighting and the input clip lights in...

I kinda painted myself into a corner so to speak. While tracking drums I had this crazy idea that the drummer could use stick clicks during stops to keep time and I could later edit those out. I didn't take into account the cymbal decay. What happens when I process a fade it has to be too sharp...

Hey all you drummers, Is there an ideal place to put a hole in the resonant head of a kick drum for mic'ing? Currently I have mine about 3-4" from the edge. Its a hole about the size of a CD :p . It looks to be in the standard 4 oclock position but I want to move it to the 12 o'clock position so...

I admit I once had a not so legal version of Cubase SX. I got me one of those Fireboxes that came with Cubase LE. Before I was using a ZOOM 1044 multitrack and I would sometimes import wave files and play around with them in SX. Once I got the Firebox I wiped the SX out of my system and...

OK here's the next question for 100 points The catagory is hard drives. Gentlemen, hands on buzzers. What would give me faster access times, an internal laptop drive running at 5400RPM's or a USB or Firewire drive running at 7200 RPM's? I want to get an external anyway to at least store and...

I have a pretty small untreated room that dosen't sound all that great. I have been experimenting with recording drums lately and have a budget type drum mic kit but no overheads. I have a Behr B1 LDC that I could use but I think I mostly prefer the tight sound of the close mic'ed drums. I guess...

I know the whole bass trap thing has been beat to death hear but after reading Ethans articles and doing searches here I still feel like I don't get it. I guess the big question is, do I need bass traps in all four corners of a rectangular room? Also most of the DIY info suggests building them...

I just realized that I have been leaving my mic plugged into my Firebox and the phantom power on for about 3 weeks. Is this bad for the mic? At the risk of starting a Behringer bashing thread I will say that the mic is a Behringer B1. It seems to work fine each time I use it so I think so far...

I'm not to sure if this belongs here but it kind of has to do with design. I have always had a problem with clutter in my recording space. I will spend and hour reoganizing and putting stuff away and cleaning up only to find that after one nights use it's a big mess. I have wires all over the...

OK here's the deal, I just got my new monitors today and hook them up. I played my MP3 player through them to see how they sounded. Sound great, so far so good. I then plug my laptop output to them and all hell breaks loose. I'm getting this static interference kind of thing. I then unplug the...