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I find that when I'm tracking my stuff, I can hardly ever get a good solid take. I'm doing the guitar, bass, drums, and vocals on my stuff, so I have plenty of opportunities to screw up. I almost always edit several takes together, unless it's an easy song (and, to be fair, most of my songs...

I had been working on a tune, and I had to leave for a few hours, so I closed everything and just let the computer sit. I don't run a screen saver, so not much was going on in the background while I was gone. When I got back, there was a blue screen error that said "Unable to write to disk in...

I've got a bass track that has a lot of unpleasant clicks at the start of notes. That's just a problem this bass has at times, and the nature of the material compounds the problem. The song is just so damn hard to play that I have to be aggressive about it. So my question is, does anybody...

Hello, I have a couple of mixes up, and I'd like some feedback. I know they're not perfect, but I'm a beginner. Any comments are welcome. www.artistcollaboration.com/users/whoopysnorp/Beat_Up_A_Cop.mp3 www.artistcollaboration.com/users/whoopysnorp/The_Ballad_of_Brady_St._Eldridge-DeWitt.mp3...

Back in the old days (high school, which ended for me about two and a half years ago), I tracked onto a Tascam 22-4, which is a quarter-inch reel-to-reel machine. We're talking 1983's home recording technology, here. I logged many happy hours in front of that machine with a razor blade and...

I was recently given a box of 100 PNY CD-Rs (up to 16x compatible, 700MB). My CD-RW drive (Philips PCRW804) doesn't like them for some reason--if I try to burn one the computer freezes right after it starts burning the table of contents. Most 16x 700MB CD-Rs work fine, but not these. As that...

Here's my deal--I need some monitors, but I've decided I can't justify spending much money on them. I'd spend about $300, but not much more. I have a passable JVC consumer amp that doesn't seem to do anything wierd with the EQ. Should I get passive YSM-1s, passive Tannoy Reveals, the new...

I'm trying to install a Yamaha CRW2200 IDE drive on my parents' computer (it was my sister's Christmas present). It doesn't wanna work. I get the initial BIOS screen, and it recognizes the drive, and then when it gives me the Windows screen, it stops loading and just sits there. The PC is a...

As a person who plays drums as a secondary instrument, I'm not really familiar with many different kinds of heads. I'm using Remo Pinstripes on the toms right now at the behest of a drummer friend, and I've had them on for about four months. They're starting to sound pretty dead. I also use a...

http://www.andrewkilpatrick.org/projects/spdif/ This guy has made some cool stuff to work with digital signals. I was most intrigued by the homemade coaxial/toslink converter, since I could use one of those.

What ho all, I've just finished mixing some partially done songs, and I thought I could use some advice. They don't have vocals yet (I haven't written any lyrics yet), but they will later, so take that into account. This is the first work I've done that I thought sounded pretty good. Here...

I'm very interested in this product--sounds a little too good to be true (i.e., decent powered monitors for about $300 street).

The first thing might not have anything to do with latency, but then again it might. I'm having a problem with certain Sonic Foundry plugins, which somehow causes an audible gap between the processed track and the unprocessed sound on other tracks. For example, I record drums to four tracks...

It seems that my setup does not allow me to take advantage of the low latencies promised by ASIO. I have an IBM Aptiva that I've been gradually converting into a machine suitable for recording. At the moment it has a 700 Mhz Athlon in an Anigma S30 mobo (AMD Irongate chipset), 352 MB PC100...

I originally posted this at audioforums.com, but nobody was biting over there. Anyway: Now that my collection of gear is starting to increase (thank you, student loans!), I'm starting to wonder about mic preamps. I have a Yamaha MX12/4 mixer and the M-Audio Omni Studio. I have the mixer in...

Has anybody heard about these? I just found out about them at www.m-audio.com. They're biamped and have an MSRP of only $399! I wanna know more about this before I commit myself to Tannoy Reveals!

Pardon me if this is a foolish question, but I'm having difficulty with my recording setup. I have 352 MB of PC100 RAM and two hard drives. The C: drive (the one that's connected to the light on the PC's case) is a 17GB 5400 rpm Quantum Fireball (came in the computer), and I use it for the OS...

I have an IBM PC that has a 700 Mhz Athlon in it (I upgraded from 500 Mhz), 352 MB of PC100 RAM (96 MB of it is the stuff that came in the machine, the other 256 is Micron), a TNT2 M64 video card, an SBLive, a Delta 66, a 17 GB 5400 rpm HD (apps), and a 40 GB 7200 rpm HD (audio). Motherboard is...

What do you all use to mic your drums? Just curious. I myself use two Marshall 603s as overheads (it sure is tough putting them where they get both the cymbals and the hi-hat well), an Sm57 on the snare, another Sm57 between the 12" and 13" tom, and a Sennheiser e602 on the kick. I have to...