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MOTU's tech support line gives me a busy signal, how professional is that?

When I try to install the pci-324 card, windows Xp recognizes the hardware, installs the gsif driver, then recognizes hardware again and trys to install the wave driver (which I need). Just as the progress bar finishes up the system locks up, and I mean dead stop, the mouse wont move, not the XP...

Hey, I was approaching the final plans for my Daw, when I hear in another thread that Motu has some sort of incompatibility with AMD. SHIT, there goes my dual 2400+ system! (I already have the motu from my current DAW, its the 24i with pci-324 pci card) So I went to motu and found this...

I wanna build my new DAW with a dvd burner to back up my SONAR projects. I'd also like to have the ability to burn discs my dvd player can read, but thats not as important as the ability to handle the back-up task. I really have no clue what the differences are between dvd+r, dvd-r and dvd-ram...

I noticed on cakewalk's site that sonar is multi processor capable. I was considering building a dual processor DAW, and after seeing this in another thread http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=50000335 i was pretty pysched looking at the performance of the dual 2200+ system. Now i know...

I've got a friend who is taking out a $13,000 loan to buy some equipment to film a documentary. He thinks he's decided on cameras, two canons i believe , im not sure what models, but he's come to me for advice on a mic. I assumed he wanted a shotgun mic, and since he was going to be recording...

Does anyone else just like to sit with a good cd at max volume on your monitors until you realize that your ears have to last another 60 years (for me at least :D )? That was really just a preface to my actual question... I have mackie Hr824s, so for ~$1300 I got great speakers and 500 watts...

I've been using the "eliminate" the bottlenecks gear purchasing technique and I find myself with a Rode NTK/sm57/okatava mc012, and other mics of the same quality - Allen and Heath mix Wiz 16:2DX - MOTU 24I. I see the A & H mixer as my bottleneck, being I have no outboard pres. My band is...

When you trigger drums, is the only way to turn the trigger's signal into a midi signal to use a drum 'brain'? I was interested in triggering the kick drum and maybe toms, and now that sonar 2 comes with all these sampling dxi's like cyclone, I think its called, it seems like I have everything...

Why is it that when I import a pro mix into sonar it distorts on my monitors unless i lower the track to about -4 to -6 decibels? I also find that when using the loudness maximizer in ozone that I can push it past distorting and still get a clean mix when I export. Is there a problem maybe in my...

I basically want to ask if this would work, or if it could be improved, so far its only in my head. Equipment: Soundcraft ghost 24x8 a nice 24 trk tape machine (someday...) a pc running Sonar 2.0XL or w/e version will be out by the time I can afford this motu 24i, and then something to get...

I've been working strictly digital for the past 6 months and I've really done some great stuff. But the more I think about it the more I realize that if i ever want to do this, recording, for real, I'll have to learn the analog end. I first saw this when a few weeks after buying a motu 24i, i...

Is there any kind of strictly limiting outboard device i can get? While tracking I've realized that my motu's level meters always go into the red way before my mixer clips. I've heard of apogee's softlimit, and I thought I could do somethign similiar but with a seperate limiter. Anywhere from...

Does anyone know where I can find an explanation of how popular effects pedals work, like the boss phase shifter, does it double the signal and then shift the phase of one? And someone at a music store told me that chorus, reverb, delay/echo, flanger, and wah wah were all basically the same...

What kind of mic would you use on say a trumpet or saxophone, I'm not so much looking for a "sweet" so sound, but something that will cut through distroted guitars. I'm recording my first ska band, well its actually more of punk with horns, and I've never miced any instrument that you have to...

Has anyone else since getting into recording found themselves disabling eqs and enhancers when they listen to music casually? At first it was because I felt bad screwing up professional mixes by adding bass and treble, but after a month of forcing myself to listen flat, I've found that...

Is it a good Idea to use different preamps and mics on instruments in competing frequency ranges, for example one large diaphragm condensor into an outboard preamp for vocals, and another large diaphragm condensor into my mixing board's pre for guitar? For me this would require some upgrading...

Right now I am using the bounce to tracks command in sonar to get a final stereo mix, than "mastering" that with Izotope ozone. I export from Sonar at 16 bits, and put the file on a cd. I have learned by reading around here that my methods are somewhat crude and hoped to improve them by hearing...

I know as much as it should be a large diaphragm condensor mic. I've been looking at the rodes the shures the akgs and about every other mic in the price range, basically what I'm asking for is for someone to narrow done my search to maybe 5-6 mics so I can try each of them. Thanks A LOT Eric

What is the best way to get from 24 to 16 bits? I have sonar 1.0XL and I currently select all and click export to 16-bit, but I have heard a mixdown like that is not the best way. I have a Motu 24i and an Allen and Heath Mixwizard 16:2DX, what are my other options for mixing down to 16bits. I...