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hi everybody, I know this is weird, but what does 85-90 dbs sound like? I cannot afford to spend $65 on a spl meter from radio-shack right now,so I need some estimates. I had a friend over, who had measured 85 db with borrowed equipment and he told me to keep turning my amp up till, gosh, the...

I have had a pair of ALesis Monitor twos for 4 days, as an exchange with a dude who wanted smaller speakers for his room. Should I keep them? First thing I noticed is that the Alesis Monitor Twos Like hide the midrange, especially 1-3k, which is totally critical to music. Listening to music...

hi guys, I cant get my new powered monitors to play stereo. When I plug them into either left or right (input 5 or 6) on my delta 1010, the sound comes only out of the left speaker. SO I bought a splitter cord, and plugged 2 ends into my soundcard, and then plugged the speakers into the...

hi all, in hip-hop and R&B, there is always, the kick, the bass, and the snare. What else do I need to make get a signature R&B song. I use pianos now, but I am tired of pianos. Also, what kind of equipment would you say is minimum to make succesful r&b. Can I make kicking songs with just an...

for my friends who are wondering whether to buy an m-audio delta 1010 24bit/96 khz recording system or something else, I have news for you. In a recent review, the delta 1010 was called the "proverbial straight wire(with conversion)." the reviewer could not hear any tangible difference when he...

I decided to take my mic apart (akg c414b-uls) to see if I could not get it to sound sharper, and what I found was amazing. Covering the 0.3 micron gold plating was another 0.6 or greater micron dust plating which had accumulated from about 15 years of use. Anyhow, I washed the grilles and...

hi, I have two questions to ask. I just got my lexicon lxp-1 multi-fx, and I was wondering: 1. What is the most efficient way to record an fx, using a track that is already in my computer. Right now, I send the track to a different aux(which is feeding the lexicon, and then I record the...

hi guys, as I move away from directx plugins toward rackmountable fx boxes and processors, and as I find that the rack boxes are better, I need to get a outboard eq. I need a very musical sounding eq to shape my sound. I.e a 31 band eq will be good enough. I am asking here because I don't...

info about mixing that might come in Handy I just found this out after reading a recording book I got, that will surely make my mixing much easier. It said, basically, that the smallest change in volume that the human ear can hear is 1 db. One whole decibel. no more adding .05 to my bass or...

I want any of the following: roland jv 1080, korg o1w, e-mu proteus 2000, korg n1 korg wavestation or comparable sound module I am willing to pay up to $500 thanks

my joemeek vc6q "british channel" only 3 months old. I have not even registered it. It is well known for warming up and fattenning up sounds, but can be run transparent by turning of its COMPRESSOR AND EQUALISER. Has a microphone input, a line input, an instrument input, an insert point ...

hi people, I'm in dire need of serious reverbs and delays and all sorts of vocal fx cos the plugins I have now just don't cut it. I have been looking at the mpx 1 @$700, but I need to know if the high end software fx can compare to boxes like the mpx1 or tc m-one. I know the advantages of...

if you're using cubase that is. Any version of cubase. In blind tests btw cubase and cooledit, cool edit always sounded better than cubase. My question is, to those who have used different software programs, which one, in your personal opinion, is the best sounding.? I think it is digital...

why is this? I record stuff(say a midi file) thru the inputs on my sound card, into vegas. normalize it, and then duplicate the track about 7 times and assign each track to a different bus. the resulting wav file when converted is very , very loud and it always stays between 6 and 0 . when I...

guys, how is it going. I am now investigating the possibility of getting a bass guitar, since I am not happy with my keyboard sound, I would like to know. How much will a just over decent one set me back used. I just need to be able to get an ok sound on tape. WHat do you guys recommend. I...

hi y'all, Sonusman was just saying that we should most definitely stay away from keyboard basses. ie samples or synths. they sound like crap. I had been suspecting my bass sound all along, but what do you guys think? who here has good recordable bass sounds from your kb or sound modules, and...

these questions have been on my mind, and because they concern the quality of my music, they are freaking me out. so ,please answer any one you can. 1. Why the freak is Paris supposed to be better than Logic or cubase or dp. If I have good converters, should my software make any freaking...

hi, someone out there please tell me, I am recording vocals in tight cardoid (two inches from mic) Do I need to treat my room , or will my money be better spent on good quality cables.

I've been using vegas pro lately as my multitrack recording software, and while I am happy to use it for recording , I hate using the effects on it. THey are totally crap. Every single directX fx that I have used has made my music sound worse. compression is terrible, delay sounds bad...

hi, I will make this as short as possible so that I can get some replies. Here goes: What do you guys think, I read in this months EQ that audiphile quality heaphones matched with an audiophile amp will give you far better detail than any regular nearfields. he said they are basically...