Recent content by robin watson

Yes, that helped very much - it stopped me worrying about it, and taught me a thing or two along the way. Cheers!

My acoustic amplifier has a 'Piezo' input, and therefore, I assume, a very high input impedance. My guitar uses an active pickup, designed to go into a line input, which has a considerably lower impedance, say 10K or so... Is any kind of impedance mismatch likely to occur in this scenario? The...

It's 'awkward,' btw. Grammar, not grammer. Holy crap, shall we just leave it at that?? No, let's not: You'll find (if you wish to "pony up" on the subject first...) that double negatives are a part of the English language (which you appear to be bent on fucking up), and have been used (to good...

Prick, it's perfectly valid grammar. Fucking moron as well as a wannabe smartass. Good effort - now, back to playing with your studio knobs.

It's about 4 years old, with the original hard drive. I can't say I've ever heard of a 'quieter' hard drive - HD's are noisy by nature, aren't they? That said, compared to the Alesis HD24 Masterlink's pretty quiet, so I'm wondering if you might not have a problem actually. Sure, when my...

The Masterlink is a bit noisy, yes. I don't think you can get 'quieter' drives, can you?

This will likely be common knowledge among most users of the HD24, but felt like posting a friendly heads up regarding dust. I recently opened my HD24 up to inspect the fan and bejayzuz there was some accumulated dust in there, especially around the PSU. Can't hurt to pop the hood once in a...

I'm refusing to take any notice of a person who completely destroys the spelling of 'catastrophically,' only to conclude with "tantalum caps sound brittle in 'audio' applications."

What kind of friend asks 600 dollars for his NS10s? Swipe him off your Xmas list at once.

Shouldn't you not be being a smartass twit 12 MONTHS AFTER THE QUESTION WAS POSTED?

http://www.imuso.co.uk/directory/reviews/equipment-reviews/alesis-sr-16.htm http://reviews.harmony-central.com/reviews/Keyboard+And+MIDI/product/Alesis/SR-16+Drum+Machine/10/1 That's more info than you'll ever need.

Thankyou for the replies. I won't claim to have grasped everything there, but I get the gist of it. R

Not with those words of wisdom, that's for sure.

TRS cables, as you must know already, are going to maintain a balanced connection. TS will work, but you will then be unbalanced. Check that the gear you're connecting is in fact balanced - if not, just plain TS will be fine. In you're average home studio, balanced isn;t really necessary in my...

There's no rhythm centre, unless it's like 13/9 or something, but I gave up counting. The bass meanders similarly, and I can't decipher a word of it. Other than that, it's a really cool piece of musical composition.