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friends , im new to live recording...so these questions are very general... 1. what makes a guitar sound differently ? is it the guitar itself or the amp that makes the distorted sound found in heavy metal ? or is it an outboard effects processor inserted between the guitar and the amp ...

friends , anyone know of any " anatomy of a recording studio " web sites or books ? something that will explain in detail what all the equipment is , and what it does.how to work it etc. ... and about compression and reverb etc. and its different types , and the indusrty standards for...

friends , i tried doing a search for my answer... but had no luck... my problem is , during playback... lots of times... cakewalk will just stop playing back...for no reason at all... and the more tracks i add.. the worse it gets.. the problem is at its worst when im in console view trying...

friends , im posting this question here rather then in the cakewalk forum because im pretty sure its a computer problem and not a cakewalk problem... when playing back my recordings in cakewalk rarely will it make it through with out either A. just stopping playback for no reason , or B...

friends , when running your s/w editing program ( cakewalk , cubase , pick your poison ) .. is it really necessary to have an outboard mixer ? or any out board equipment for that matter ? dont all the high quality s/w editing programs have mixers and effects processors incorporated into the...

hehe...i knew you'd come :D... i basically direct this question to you because you are the master of MIDI... but anyones input would be greatly appreciated... i have a keyboard that is an input device... but..it also has midi jacks.. if the keyboard makes sounds of its own , what are the...

friends , what exactly is spdif ?. i know its stands for sony blah something interface ... but what does it do ? im gonna guess , and if im wrong ..correct me.. spdif in/outs are used to send a digital signal to another device capable of receiving a digital signal with out transfering the...

friends , im building a pc for home recording..and i have a few questions about hard drives... firstly , is it really that important to have seperate hard drives for windows and audio ? im on a limited budget ... so im tryin to cut the less critical corners.... im leaning towards the abit bx6...

friends , im going to be building a computer set up just for audio recording and i hit a snag in the memory department... can anyone explain to me what parity is when talking about memory ? whats the difference between memory with parity and memory w/o it ? thanks eddie

friends.... hehe...i know you guys are prolly sick of me... but...here i am again... whats the difference between the new darla 24 and the old darla besides that the darla 24 uses 1/4 inch i/o's ? and more importantly... whats the difference in price ? ive seen the darla for 300 bucks...is...

friends , can you read from as well as write to a cd - r drive ? and if CD- Rs do read as well as write... can you have one as your only cd - rom drive ? thanks - eddie -

what makes pentium better for audio recording than AND k6 ? i have a 300 MMx AMD K6 ... 4 gig hard drive 60 megs of ram .. will the AMD K6 be a problem ?

dear friends , i forgot where i read this , but i heard that the cyrix 6x86MX processor sucks for audio recording ... has anyone heard the same ? figures , its just my luck that my computer has that processor... - eddie -

dear friends , how come when i record a second track into cakewalk , and i play it solo i can hear the first track lightly in the back ground ? and when i play the first and second tracks at the same time , it creates an distorted echo effect ... i have an ESS Audiodrive soundcard , and when...

when i record from the line in of my computer , and then play it back...it sounds horrible... lots of distortion and popping.. i played with the line in and recording levels so im assuming its because my soundcard sucks... it doesnt even have rca jacks... it has a 1/8 inch for the line in... im...

dragon and crew.... ok...here is the plan ... im gonna have a yamaha djx keyboard and sm58 mic , into a small 2 channel mixer/pre amp ( with direct XLR plugs if i run into some money.... if not ..im assuming i need an impedance matching transformer to match the impedance and to convert it to...

ok...finally i think im catching on a lil bit... ive surfed the site... used the search ... and slowly but surely my home recording iq is rising... ive already posted questions on the BBS , and i must admit that the answers that i received were very thorough ... in fact... they were too...

how do i find out what kind of soundcard i have ?

i recently decided that i wanted to start recording my own songs at home by using a midi keyboard and sequencer... but before i plunk down a couple hundred bucks for equipment....i wanna be sure i know what im doing... firstly...im goin to be using a shareware program sequencer to start ( any...