Recent content by Sir_Matthew

I recently acquired a Mackie ProFX mixer which has a footswitch jack. Per the manual, you can use it to turn the internal effects on or off. However, I'm unsure what type of footswitch would work with it. Any input appreciated.

Though it works well for instruments, I've never liked the tone of the preamp on my Focusrite Scarlett for vocals. If I got a different outboard mic pre, would plugging it into one of the line inputs bypass the onboard pre?

I've been sequencing drums & keys within ProTools for a decade now, and no matter what I do to lower sampling rates, there is always a little more lag than I'm comfortable with. In the absence of 8 grand or more for a badass clock, I'm wondering if outboarding the sequencing and sound module...

I've slowly come to the admission that the preamps on my faithful old Digi 002 Rack are failing on me. Given that the computer I'm running it on is still on XP and ProTools 6.4 LE, I figure it's time for an upgrade. I got a new Dell running Windows 8, and will likely get the newest ProTools...

Can't get Avid on the phone, so I'm asking here... Since 2005, I've been running ProTools LE 6.4 with a Digi 002 Rack on my Windows XP box. XP is probably going to stop updating at some point in the near future, so I'll likely be updating to Windows 7. I get that PT LE 6.4 probably won't run on...

I've been doing a lot of online shows on Second Life & Ustream, and thus far have been doing them dry. But I heard someone using a touch of Alesis Microverb the other day, and it added enough depth that I'd like to try it. However, used Microverbs (and Midiverbs) appear to be selling for at...

Per my earlier post, I went ahead and bought a used replacement for my Hafler TA1100 power amp. Got the new one in the mail today, plugged it in, same distortion. Is it possible that both of my speakers (Event 20/20s) have been blown simultaneously? I don't recall an audio incident large enough...

I've been mixing with a Hafler TA1100 ever since I got the recommendation on this board 10 years ago. It's been a real trooper, but now I'm getting weak signal and distortion on both channels. Do you have any idea how much it would cost to fix it? Trying to weigh that vs. buying a new one. I saw...

I've been using ProTools LE 6.4 since 2005 through a Digi 002 Rack onto my Windows XP machine, and this is the first time I've had the problem detailed below: When I have a song up with more than maybe 5 tracks on it, there is a high-pitched whine. I don't notice it so much during playback, but...

Hi all, I've got a Behringer DI20 that I use for splitting guitar & bass signals between an amp simulator and an actual amp. It works okay, but my experience with other pieces of Behringer gear makes me wonder if I'm losing some signal in the process. I saw the Nady DB-1 online, but sometimes...

Hi all, So my wife has decided to go to Rock Camp in May, and we're getting her started on bass. I'd like to get her a little practice unit like the Boss TU-88, but I wonder if there isn't something that does the same thing (pipe in CD or mp3 player and instrument direct, listen via headphones)...

Just a note of thanks to the denizens of this board, who have made my journey in home recording possible for the past 8 years. The most recent result is my new album, February, which was just released this week by Wampus Multimedia: http://februarythealbum.com/ It's a combination of...

Though I've long since left the standalone recorder world for that of ProTools, a friend of mine got his perfectly decent Roland VS1880 burgled recently. He doesn't have a good computer, nor a lot of money, so I'm trying to find him something inexpensive and workable, since he won't be able to...

Hi all, I'm looking at a rental house that has a nice one-car garage which could house my studio nicely. I've seen stand-alone air conditioning units that are basically like window units but without the necessity of a window, just an exhaust hole. A couple of questions spring to mind: - Has...

This may seem a silly question, and in my many years of multitrack recording, I've managed to dodge it by just taking separate tracks, but now I need to know: When recording an acoustic guitar and vocal played by the same person at the same time, how in the heck do you avoid phasing? I've...