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I am not primarily a drummer (and certainly not good at the drums), but I do enjoy playing them every once in a while, plus I like to have real drum tracks on demos of my songs. For pretty much as long as I have been alive, I've had an old '60s or '70s set of Slingerland shells with a Sonor...

I have decided that I need to do something about my mixer situation. I currently have an old Tascam M320 that is mostly working pretty well but has a few age-related issues: there are constant crackles through the L/R monitor outs, I'm getting some low 60 cycle hum in the balanced bus outs...

OK, the tube in my V69 was bad, and my replacement just arrived today. However, in the course of changing it, I managed to break the blue wire off of the tube socket, and now I don't know where to reattach it. It looks like it attaches to the pin between where the yellow and orange wires are...

I am doing most of my tracking these days on my laptop. I've posted before about various issues I'm having getting it to perform smoothly. The main problem I haven't been able to surmount is getting playback from an external Firewire drive to be glitch-free (when connected to my desktop I can...

I have a laptop and a desktop, and I use the same 500 GB external hard drive and Fireface 800 audio interface with both. Both machines also use the same OS (Windows XP Pro) set up in basically the same way. On my desktop, I use an aftermarket Firewire PCI card with (I think) a TI chipset, and...

I just got the Focusrite ISA428, and I decided to make a test recording to see how they performed. I have here two clips of drums (the drumming is pretty bad so forgive me): www.genitalhercules.com/~mcrowe/drum_tests/clip1.mp3 www.genitalhercules.com/~mcrowe/drum_tests/clip2.mp3 The mics on...

In the future, when I do my next serious recording of my band, I would like to record the basic tracks to my Tascam ATR-60, then move that material over to my DAW to overdub stuff like keyboards and vocals. The basic tracks would probably be a basic power trio setup. I like to mic drums with a...

I'm in the middle of making a bunch of all-around upgrades to my recording equipment. First step was to pick up an old Tascam M320 board (the preamps and EQ are a step up from what I had been using, and are quite decent imo). Next I ditched my M-Audio Delta cards and started using the RME...

Now that I've added a laptop to my recording setup, I've decided to start using an external Firewire drive as my primary recording target (the idea is I'll be sure to keep copies of everything on that drive on an internal drive in my desktop as well). I have a Firewire chain with my Fireface...

I have two PCs: a desktop with a 1.8 Ghz Core 2 Duo used mainly for mixing, and a laptop with a 2 Ghz Turion X2 used mainly for tracking (I live in an apartment so I have to go to our rehearsal space to track loud stuff). I have them both running Windows XP SP2 with all the necessary updates...

On Monday I finally got the Peluso CEM-C6s I had won on eBay, so I headed down to the rehearsal space on Tuesday to do some clips comparing them to my MXL603s. My setup was as follows: MXL603s or CEM-C6s overhead, wide-spaced or XY Modded (TapeOp/no transformer mod) SM57 on snare top Stock...

Just got a new laptop that I'll be using for mobile tracking. I'll probably stick with mixing on my desktop PC. Of course, Vista came preloaded. Based on my first half-hour's experiences, I'd say it looks pretty, but seems to run needlessly slow. However I've heard you can dial down the...

I have successfully baked and transferred my first tape! This is something I had been wanting to do for a very long time, but I'm glad I wasn't able to try it until now, since that gave me a lot of time to do the necessary research. I got most of my information from this link. The tape in...

This started off as just a project to pile a bunch of tracks on top of a block of 9 basic tracks of outtakes from our most recent album so I could test the latency with my new interface/software setup, and it wound up being a sonic recreation of what it sounds like to be inside a Guitar Center...

I just upgraded from an M-Audio PCI setup that I've had since 2001 to a Fireface 800, and I'm still getting acclimated. I wasn't using ASIO with the M-Audio stuff, but now I am, and I'm not sure what I should be shooting for as far as latency. When playing back a session with ~25-30 tracks in...