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i've discovered that the FW-1884 line-in will reduce my levels by around -6db if the gain is turned all the way down. i took my RNP output and put it into the line-in, then put it in the insert of the 1884 to prove the above. soooo, i want to use the insert instead of the line-in. if i take a...

I just got a pari of Alesis M1 Actives. My fw-1884 has balanced 1/4" outputs. the M1 has the option of 1/4" or XLR connects. Should I use one of those 1/4" male to XLR Male cables, or just use 1/4" TRS? is their a sound difference for a mere 6 foot cable?

ok. my studio building is on hold until next spring, but it gives me more time to think, which lead to questions. my chief concern with the basement studio that I will be building is noise coming from the family room upstairs. i have a 3 year old and a 1 year old, so i am anticipating lots of...

ok, it figures that i've got miles to go before my studio room construction looks like anything other than total sh**, and i need to do some mixing (with friggin' headphones). in sonar3, can you route multiple background vocal tracks to a sub-main and then route that sub-main to the main? that...

the new house is done. i've got cable internet. i've got wireless to the PC in the basement. i've got big dreams with lots of wood and drywall involved. but i don't want to wait until i've done all that to get back to making music. is sonar3 worth the money? or should I stick with sonar2...

i'm about to start construction... i wish i could come up with the dough to get someone else to do this for me. anyway take a look at my design and a picture of the room in the basement i want to use... its 22' x 19'8" where it says RL in the design for recessed lighting, i've decided to...

i will have a 19'8" x 25' space in the basement. if i want to do the room in a room thing so that the sound is reduced throughout the rest of the house, and so that i don't hear people's feet stomping on the family room floor above my head. q1: how much separation do i need between the outer...

OK. Here's the skinny. I've got a fatar sl880 going (via midi) into a tascam us-428. the us-428 is going (via usb) into a 1.2ghz AMD Athlon. the Athlon is running Sonar2. When I am recording audio, the latency is fine. When I am recording midi the latency is absolutely fine. When I am...

when mastering an EP wherein you have 5 songs of varying tempo and attitude how best to set the volumes such that the tracks run well together? what i have been doing is multiband-compressing and maximizing the individual stereo mixed tracks as necessary, then using the volume faders to adjust...

i was gifted with one of each when my best buds uncle passed, but i've got no use for them. i'm going to put it up on ebay later today. the ins and outs are RCA and everything in my digital studio is 1/4" and then stay digital. i could use it for my cd player, vcr, playstation, and dvd but it...

man i love the remove silence feature in Sonar. did i mention that Sonar is my favorite piece of software in the world? even more than IBM's Visual Age for Java with the standalone Websphere App Server feature. it's a gate and a sample size reducer all in one. normally, i use it as a gate...

we've discussed flipping the phase of the right channel so that the lead vocal (if its right down the middle) will be phased out. what if you want to hear only the lead vocal and no 12" vinyl a'cappela mix is available to you? anyone done this? I was thinking: 1) load the CD track in to...

i just bought an iomega 100mb scsi zip drive on ebay for $25. i'm going to connect it to my Ensoniq/EMU ASR-X sampler. anyone else doing this with the ASR or MPC? how is the drive speed? i got tired of swapping floppy disks into the ASR and the zip was cheap.

anyone else nothice this annoyance: when you drag your mouse across the track view to select a range it selects for instance 1:00:00 - 5:00:00 instead of 1:00:00 - 4:04:359 this is pissy because if you are doing a copy and paste (replace existing) and you have a note on 5:00:00 it will erase...

2 rappers from Virginia on the verses and bridge and me on the hook. give me your opinion of both the music and the artists. the way you rock

i had an awesome day today. my occassional manager is always talking about a recent former miss america contestant who wants to be an R&B singer. i heard a horrible recording of hers that still showed that she has very good chops. He's been trying to convince her entertainment attorney mother...

This is a remix of a song that was on Ras Lidj's previous release a few years ago. We were messing around in the studio between takes of another tune (tour bus) when i started playing this tune on my classical guitar. since he only sold a couple hundred copies of his previous release we're...

i record in 48khz/24bit for all of my tracks. i had a gospel dance group come in. they wanted to put a 1:30 intro in front of donnie mcclurkin's 'stand'. i changed my system to 44.1/16 for the session and forgot to change back. so the next day, i'm trying to re-record some classical guitar...

Ras Lidj (the artist i produce) is opening up for 50 cent at club dynasty in greenvile, nc on thursday. CLUB DYNASTY — 507 N. Greene St. Greenville, NC anyone in the area come show us some love. good things happen to you when you get your demo ready in time for spring/summer bookings.

the artist i deal with (many of you who have been around for a while know about this) officially got 2 years probation for his latest issue. that means as long as he stays out of trouble, we'll have a good year. i'm re-recording the nylon acoustic guitar track for one of the songs on this...