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edit: i got them working! the blue light still doesn't come on though??

My friends are trying to convince me I need a 2-300 dollar analog mixer so I can use the EQ on it instead of EQ'ing digitally. I currently have a presonus firepod with 8 simultaneous channels of recording with preamps, and I mix on my computer. I understand that a good analog EQ will destroy a...

I always have trouble getting mixes balanced between left and right speakers. My band has a guitar, keyboard, drums and vocals. the drums and vocals and the bass notes on keyboard are generally right down the middle. The problem becomes the guitar and keyboard. I pan each to a different side and...

i accidentally bid on some passive monitors on ebay and in the case that i win them i don't really know how to use them. I have to buy an amp or something? What amp or whatever would be good for Tannoy Reveal passives???

I bought a condenser and I tried using it for screaming/yelling vocals and there was a ton of weird "ess" distortion at around 12.7k and I had to use de-esser as well as an insane amount of pinpoint(extremely high Q) parametric eq again at around 12.7k to lower that frequency range by about...

I went to use my c4's today and 1 those tiny plastic things on the shockmount that (barely) hold the elastic strings on broke off and I've only used them 3 times. Not to mention how one of the shockmounts is too loose for my mic so I have to use tape to keep it from falling out. ugh. I actually...

Hmmmm, I bought a presonus firepod and I won't record in 32-bit for some reason, only in 24. it records 24-bit fine in Cubase LE but I don't really know how to use that program, and AA is so easy to use and intuitive and I can basically do everything that I need to do with it using plug-ins...

I need some suggestions for miking my guitar players guitar cab. I might want to try dual miking but is there any ways to get around or minimize phase problems? What mic combo would work the best, and what are some positions to try with dual miking? Here are the mics I have: SP C1 SP C4...

I went to record drums today. First one didn't fit the mic, and then unbeknownst to me, the shockmount screw on is smaller than all my mic stands! I ended up having to tape my shockmounts to my stands! Is this normal, are you supposed to buy different mic stands or booms for condensers or...

I want to use my DMP3 with my friends Mackie mixer to record the overheads. The rest of the mics will just be going through the mackie. In order to bypass the mixers preamps would i just run 1/4" - 1/4" cords into the 1/4" slots on 2 of the channels, and then turn the gain all the way down? I...

so i have my computer, a m-audio dmp3 preamp, and soon to have a mixer. how do I/what kind of cables do I need to connect: dmp3 straight to computer(for when i'm only using one channel for vocals, or guitar cab miking or whatever) dmp3 into mixer then into my computer(for drums, or if i want...

What do you guys think about the effects in Adobe Audition? Which ones are good, which ones are okay, and which should I stear clear from? Personally from testing I think most of them seem pretty weak, but what are some good useable effects and presets that some of you use?

Someone told me that you should always have the line volume on your soundcard up as loud as possible when recording. Why is this? Doesn't your soundcard have the same noise floor whether or not the volume is up or not? If so then wouldn't you want to have the gain up on everything else, in order...

I Want To Buy A Mixer So I Can Record Drums With Lots Of Mics. I Was Looking At The Cheap Behringer Mixers But They Only Record At 48khz!!! I Want To Do 96khz Recordings. I Have A Preamp (dmp3) With 2 Inputs, So I Only Need About 6 Actual Mono Mic Preamp Channels, And Then At Least 2 Other...

Usually when i record waveforms they are usually skewed towards the top a little, so when i normalize it makes it so that the top of the waveform is almost clipping but not quite, but there still some space on the bottom of the waveform. I think this is creating a problem with loudness in the...

for screaming should i use a condenser? what about yelling? I have a sm57 and an Sennheiser 421, I was going to buy a condenser like the SP c1, but then someone told me that cardiods were better for these kinds of vocals. What do you guys think? Are there any good cheap condensers for...