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I need a great song for a female singer that is catchy and upbeat without being lame. Something along the lines of Avril Levigne or the other pop/rock chicks who are popular right now. A slight country vibe would be acceptable also. I've got a few songs to use but nothing is really grabbing...

My experience is mainly in live/location recording so please forgive my newbieness (newbileness, newbliessence?) I'm moving into a new house and will be devoting the living room and one of the bedrooms for a studio. The living room will be used for tracking and the dimensions are 17'x31'x8'...

After a year of spec'ing out all the options it looks like a RADAR 24 from www.izcorp.com will be my best choice for 24CH digital recording. I was amazed how cheap their DAC's are. 24CH of highly regarded 96khz convertors for $4000. That's pretty hard to beat with anything that I'm aware of...

Anybody using a Marshall AVT50 Head? It's one of their newer cheap hybrid amps with tube pre and solid state 50w power amp. There is a decent deal on the head and half stack at a local pawn shop and I was curious if anybody had any input on them. There is also an old Alamo 1-10 tube combo...

A friend of mine works for a data processing company that has some pretty serious computer hardware. They even have a server with the new 64bit Hammer processors but they are waiting for Win XP to support them. One of the things he mentioned that got my interest was they have a rack full of 1U...

Harvey, have you ever made a big Preamp Thread? My philosophy on recording is that getting a great signal to tape is 90% of the battle. The rest is just making sure you dont screw with the tracks too much in the rest of the process and suck the life out of them. With that in mind the mic...

Anybody have any experience with the TC Electronics Triple C Stereo Comp? It's a 3 band stereo comp that looks pretty cool and I can get a decent deal on one. Any comments?

My background is mainly in electronic music but I've been wanting to do more acoustic stuff. I'm recording some pre-production tracks for Australian blues/country singer Doug Siggs aka Earle Douglas and he gave me permission to post some of the stuff here. So here are my first real acoustic...

Anybody still using a DBX 166? I havent used one in years but there is one in a pawn shop nearby for $100. That's the listed price so I'm sure he'll go lower. Any comments on the 166?

What is a Les Paul? Just kidding. I was thinking of getting a Les Paul and I'm more concerned with sound than finish. I'm leaning towards the studio's or a studio gothic. I havent had a chance to try them out yet but will soon. I'm looking for more of a classic rock tone ala Zeppelin or...

My old mini Stewart amp seems to be dieing on me after 12years and it looks like I need a new power amp for my NS10M's. I was thinking either the Hafler 1100 $200 or the 1600 $250. I imagine the 1100 is plenty of power but for a few bucks more I can get the 1600. Any other good amps in that...

A Radio Shack nearby is closing and has some good deals on a bunch of crap. One of the things that caught my eye was a SEC 400 Power Conditioner. It is normally $80 and is half price. Nobody there knew anything about it and one guy tried to tell me it was a UPS. My question is how do I know...

I was helping a friend of mine pick up a beginner guitar. We looked at all the $300 crap guitars and had pretty much decided to get a Seagull. We came across the Taylor Big Baby at GC for $270 and that guitar is incredible for the price. Solid Spruce Top, Ebony fretboard. It is loud and...

Hey guys, I've been doing audio work forever but I'm new to studio mics. I've noticed a lot of condensors only go up to about 16-18khz. Do the mics that go up to 20khz have the hyped high end that everyone hates? I may be oversimplifying things here but I would think you would miss that extra...

I dont know if you guys have seen this site but it's pretty funny. Most of you can revel in the fact that at least you dont suck this badly. Demos From Hell http://www2.bitstream.net/~tgg/tgg/

I'm trying to open 24bit/44.1 Logic Audio .wav files in CEP. I'm probably missing something obvious but they wont open properly no matter what settings I've tried. The files sound like distorted sine waves which usually means it opened the file in the wrong bit format. I know CEP will save...

Focusrite Platinum Series Has anybody use these? There is a used Penta single channel pre/comp for $350 and was thinking about getting it. Should I just save up for the reds or any other recomendations?

Do you guys have any recomendations for studio mic stands? I would like a system with interchangable parts that allow for a lower boom for close stereo guitar micing with a top boom for vocals or additional guitar mics. I would like to have 2 stands set up to accomodate 2 singer/guitarists...

A local pawn shop has the following mics. The prices they ask are ridiculous but I'm putting the prices I think they are worth. CAD E 300 $200 AKG C1000 $100 Oktava 319 $100 Do those sound like reasonable prices for them used? I know those are basic cheap mics. Would you guys recomend...

Is anybody familliar with the SE Electronics mics? http://www.barryrudolph.com/newtoys/toys/seelectronics.html They have the SE 5000, a tub mic for $300! I played with it for a little while and it sounded pretty nice. Anybody here used one of those or their other models before?