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    Connecting 2 Firepods?

    I've tried to join the forum of the presonus website and I can't even post a thread there, so i want to post one here. I'm getting a second firepod and I want to connect it to the first one that I have. When connecting, do I connect it via firewire or the spdif?:confused:
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    Micing the kick drum?

    The other night I recorded the drum tracks for a song and I have two mic's placed on my snare. One on top and the other on bottom. Well, the bottom mic was accidentally set to a different channel and it was somehow picking up the kick drum. Now, I have two channels that are from the kick and...
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    What about ambience mic's?

    I have a 5 pc set and I am using eight mics to record them with. I'm fixing to buy another firepod to add 8 more tracks to my recording and that is where I'll be adding a track for ambience. I want to know what is a good mic for ambience? I just bought a Sterling Audio ST55 condensor mic, but...
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    Need help on micing a 6 pc drum set.

    I need some help on getting a good sound on a 6 piece drum set. Right now I'm limited to 8 channels of recording, and I'm using the Firepod to record with. I'm using Samson mics for bottom of snare, one samson kick mic, two samson condensors for overheads and a shure 57 for the top of the...
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    What is a deesser?

    I heard what this is and seen one on the musicians friend website, but what does it do? Does Sonar 6 have one as a plugin or would I have to purchase a plugin that is combined with other processors? Anyone shed some lite on this for me?
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    Piano samples and korg padkontrol?

    I have the Korg PadKontrol and I use that to trigger my drum samples in DFH. I was wondering if I can program the pad kontrol to do piano samples. Like certain piano chords and try to have it triggered to any midi synth. I'm not a piano player, I just want to add some piano tracks in a song...
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    Presonus FirePod bitrate?

    I just bought the firepod and am very eager to start to record. According to presonus, the firepod is supposed to record or can record in 96klh/24bit. I am also using sonar 6 for my recording. In my audio settings, sonar recognizes the firepod, but when I look at the bottom of the window it...
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    Another meter question.

    I am mixing a song and my meters are pretty stable. Only thing is that my peak reading is a little high, around -0.1 and the rms reading is about -0.16 - -0.20. Is this ok or must I add more limiter to my master channel or to the channel that is causing this?
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    Difference in Cubase LE and SX3 or SX4

    I just bought a Lexicon Alpha interphase and it came with a copy of Cubase LE. I'm a Sonar user, but I just wanted to know, what is the difference? What is the difference in LE and SX?
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    MXL condenser mics?

    I'm looking around the musiciansfriend website for some microphones, mainly condenser mics. I see the MXL mics and they are cheap with a lot of good feedback from buyers. So, my two or so questions are these. 1. is MXL brand mics good for the price and for the budget? 2. How or would anyone...
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    Upgrading to Vista from XP?

    I was talking to a friend about an idea of upgrading my computer without having to buy a new one. My current system is running windows xp and I was thinking about going to vista. only thing is that my computer has 512mb memory and the memory is hard to come by. I also read up on how windows...
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    Difference in Sonar Producer to Studio?

    I just bought my laptop, and I want to get it ready to record. But, I need to upgrade my software, so I'm thinking about getting S6 but which one to get is still up in the air. I would like to get the Sonar Producer, but funds have me on a tight grip. So for the interest in money, would...
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    Transferring sonar 4 to Windows Vista from XP.

    Is it possible that I can transfer the installed version of Sonar 4 to my new computer that is running windows vista?:confused: I somehow can't seem to get the program to install itself on my computer, but thought that what if I could use with windows file transfer program that is on windows...
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    Advantage/disadvantages on laptop computers?

    I'm in the mood of buying a new computer, one that has more ram and a faster processor. Then I started to look in the direction of buying a laptop as to where they are the same price range of a desktop. I heard of the toshiba brand is a little bit more stable than that of the dell. Would it...
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    Korg padKontrol

    Anyone using or used the pakKontrol from korg? I'm having trouble setting it up and I don't know what to do. I just bought DFH superior and this controller is supposedly have a setup for superior and I can't seem to get it going. Anyone know how to set it up or point to any online turtorials?
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    Anyone use soundforge for mastering?

    I'm using Sonar to do my recording's and mixes, but I've heard people use Soundforge for their mastering. On the mixes, how do you raise the volume for master mixes without clipping? I have a similiar post in another topic area with the same question.
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    Mastering with Sony Soundforge.

    Anyone use sony soundforge for their mastering? I'm using sonar 4 for my recording and mixing, but I've heard some people use soundforge for mastering. So, today I was tinkering around with soundforge and I came upon a little tool for maximizing the volume. It's in the tool section tab of the...
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    Cubase keeps crashing

    Anyone know how I can fix this problem or guess what is causing this error? I've already downloaded the patches for the program, but I'm still getting this crash error. Then again, I tried to look for the log file that it's mentioning and I can't seem to find it anywhere on my computer. I'm...
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    newbie on a learning curve

    I just bought cubase, but before I did, I was just researching the product on the musicians friend website and reading up on it on the website of steinberg. I'm a Sonar user and was looking at the sample pictures they had of the program and it looks a little different. A friend of mine tells...
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    roland t6 vdrums as a midi controller?

    I have the roland t6 vdrum set and I also bought the drumkit from hell 2 software. right now, I have a cheap keyboard for connected to my computer using the midi cables and i'm able to run the drum program dkh2 using the keyboard. now that i have the vdrums, which has midi in/out connections...
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