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Ok I've been using Sonar 4 PE for a project I'm working on ... I am trying to program some drums and play in some keys for soft synths and stuff. But I'm having a big latency problem, whether I use my M-Audio Oxygen 8 or just click on the piano roll, there's too much delay regardless of what...

I haven't done any of it before but I'm going to be doing quite a bit of alto sax, trumpet and trombone recording over the next few weeks. But time, as always, is of the essence, so if you want to give me any helpful tips regarding mic choices and placements that would be great. If you have...

Right I need experience from people who have actually tried this .... basically I want to know what the capabilities of a Celeron M (1.4?) with 256mb of RAM are. Now I don't need some muppet telling me I need a dual-core Pentium with 4 gigs of RAM, because I don't. I'll tell you what I want to...

I just bought a couple of Neutrik patchbays to get my stuff connected up nicely. Instead of those switches you get on the cheap ones, you have individual PCBs that you can turn around to get different normalisations etc. I don't understand the diagrams!!! And there isn't any kind of...

Can anyone tell me anything about this kit based on this rather unhelpful photo? It's an offer of a private sale but I have no idea about where it might sit in the used kit market price range!!! http://www.mytempdir.com/267485 Thanks guys, Nik

Part 1 - Before This is a recording I made at the weekend ... met the band on the Saturday morning, then a friend recorded the drums (so I won't take the blame for how abjectly crap they are), and we spent four hours on Sunday putting all the guitars, keys and vocals down. This is an initial...

As part of my ongoing education I spend some time each week in a purpose-built studio with a £60,000 Pro Tools rig with requisite Focusrite preamps, Genelec monitoring and all that jazz. Naturally the people who I learn with have never made a recording on a four-track or understand how a...

Haha, that got your attention. :) Just reading a review of Sonar Home Studio the new version in Sound on Sound, also noticed that Craig Anderton is a big fan. So I want to know this from all you Sonar users - what is the big freakin' deal?! :eek: The XL edition is less than a third of the...

I have an SE2200 large-diaphragm condenser I don't need now, I'm not desperate to get rid as I like it a lot, but I'm making it available as I seem to be constantly short of money but not of gear!!! This is the original SE2200 model, not the 'A' version, so it's got a black body and silver...

Simple question really, I just got an active bass for the first time and someone mentioned to me that it doesn't require DI'ing because the output current is higher. Does this mean I can plug straight into a line input on a preamp without an impedance mismatch? I'm just wondering if I can cut...

I have a band coming in tomorrow and it just occurred to me that my usual kick mic, the ATM25, is not around for the session. Can I tell you guys what mics I have, and what I am doing ... and then you give me ideas for selection? I have it planned in my head but I'm interested to see if you...

A friend wanted to borrow an amp from me for a big gig tonight. He had a choice between two budget combos - my 1x12 100W Fender combo and my Vox AD15VT. Since buying the Vox I haven't used the Fender once, either live or for recording. The models are pretty damn good, and I can crank the amp...

So I'm doing all my VST instruments in Tracktion and I want to record them to Vegas. They're not rendering perfectly, as Tracktion is crapware, and anyway I want to run them through my desk for some EQ and so on. Is there any way I can do this? At the moment it's impossible for Tracktion to...

I guess I'm a groupie now ... I made buying decisions on what vocal mic to get, what SDCs to get and something versatile for stage use on percussion, acoustic instruments etc, and I came up with: - SP T3 - SP C4 - SP B3 Plus another set of C4s for my mate, and a couple of ThreeQs to try out...

Ok so I had an hour with nothing to do this evening ... I had a distortion pedal and a DI box. I had a pair of headphones and a half a sense of humour. Here's what I got ... it's a song for Cloneboy. http://www.soundclick.com/bands/7/noisedudemusic.htm

I think my PC may finally be working!!!!! I've just put Win 98SE on a fresh hard disk, stuck all the drivers and software on there and at this point it appears to be working! For those of you who missed the saga around Christmas, basically I had loads of clicks and pops that we couldn't get to...

Can I use a guitar multi-fx in a loop to and from my mixer? I want to apply a patch I made on my Boss ME-6 to a part I already recorded - can I pass it out from the PC through my desk and back in again, or will there be impedance mis-match issues?

Is anyone willing to help me do some ear learning involving the Listening Sessions? What I'd really like to do is comparisons of tracks and discuss what we each hear. I was just listening to a bunch of clips and I can hear differences now much more than before ... I just don't know if it's...

Ok so y'know we did all that trying to make my PC work ... well I dunno what the problem was but I know now that it is fixable. I installed XP on a fresh hard drive and put on the newest drivers and all that stuff and - hey presto - no problems at all! The only problem is that Microsoft, in...

This is it ... still don't know where all the guitar tracks went in the chorus, but this is the last version I will EVER make of this song. I had one hour in which to mix from scratch, and there were people milling around. So I did what I could - remixed the drums from ADAT, compressed the...