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Thanks for mentioning the ear dammage from using cans. Very big problem!! Headphones are great to use as one source of judging a mix/sound, but please, use them at modest levels and only for short periods of time. Get yourself a set of decent monitors for tracking/mixing. Almost all music is...

Amp Farm is indeed a plug in! It has many different styles of virtual amps and lets you create your own virtual amplifiers too. Try it on all sorts of tracks and see what happens! How about on a keyboard with a Fender Rhodes patch, turn up the smooth distortion and Jan Hammer will be on your...

Anyone know what this software is/does? Is it good stuff? Thanks, Stack

Check out the Presonus line of converter/pre units. They have an 8 input with 8 mic pre for about $700 Stack

x2x3 Pitch shifting in the digital realm does not slow down the track. That is time compression and expansion. One pitch shifting device also known as a harmonizer (like Eventides h-3000) can be had for a modest price to many thousands of$$ Great device for the guitar player!! The H-3000 is an...

Crappier the monitor the better as far as I'm concerned. I do my levels and drum eq with an auratone spitting a mono signal. I usually check out the mix throughout the day on the speaker on an Otari MTR12 sitting in the corner of the room. If you get it sounding great (good levels and separation...

M-box is very quiet. You don't need to use the insert return to patch your console. Just plug into the line in and select line. you are simple dealing with the attenuator knobs in the signal...If you pin em out, they're out of the equation. I don't think you'll be able to hear the solder...

Charger... I've been waiting for this. Sweet!! Stack Teacher, thanks for the reply on the Samplitude thing

Yep, if it's unbal to balanced. What you can do is take the unbalanced signal and at the keyboard end, drop the shield and connect the low conductor of the balanced signal to the sleeve of the unbalanced connector. If I have thoroughly confused you, e-mail me and I can walk you through it. It...

Pardon my "ignance" but, is SAMP 7, Sampletank? I come from the analog world but have used Protools since it's Soundtools incarnation on a blazing Mac IIFX. Remember when the Texas Instruments word processor was cool? It had two disks...One was the operating system and the other was fer stickin...

Henri, It's amazing how it sometimes takes a musician to hear a change of .002 ms in the delay. However, in your case, he must have been a true pro!! Ever plug gear in, not patching returns, just to get the lights flashing? Man, this guy is amazing... Look at that, he's practically using...

Vesuvius, That is why I loved recall on all those big Neves and SSLs. The client sees a console in an MTV video and decides they can mix. So I turn em loose for a while and when they say "this sounds like crap, what did you do"? I go to lunch and let the assistant re-set the console. Plus, the...

Sounds like you have lots of great advice already, which, of course is why I can't help myself {:-) Id play around with some of these ideas if you like... Why not? but, if the sound they get from the amp is what they want... I'd put two mics in front of the singer and put the singer and mics in...

Twist, all you need is a drill press to put the Floyd on that axe. You might want to look into the Wilkinson trem with the piezo pickups in the saddles. This way you get an acoustic (sort of) and an electric. If you use a stereo jack and a stereo volume pedal, you can "swivel" between acooustic...

There's something cheaper than a Mac?? I forget who said this about the G-5 but it still makes me snicker. "Only Mac could make a newer faster machine with one less PCI slot and call it a success"! I looked at one the other day and it looks nice but you can only put two hard drives in the case...