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I used to have a luverly Doepfer LMK 1V2 master keyboard, up until a few days ago when the guy who owns it took it away. Now I'm looking for recommendations for a replacement with the following characteristics: -> it should be a work-a-day synth i.e. not just a master keyboard but with it's...

I have a small studio and I share it with someone else. We are worried that the elecetrics might now be safe because we're overpowering them. Can anyone tell me what is the maximum wattage you can suck out of one plug socket before it gets dangerous? And what are the dangers? Cheers

Hi, is 800 Euro (552 pounds sterling, 1,006 dollars) a good price for a MOTU 2408MKII sound card?

I have to record drums next week. I've never done it before. I've got one Neumann TLM103, one Shure SM57, two Shure SM58's and one Sennheiser 421 at my disposal (note: no bass drum mic) I don't mind buying a bassdrum mic but which? The AKG D112? The Sennheiser E602? Something by Peavey? That's...

what happens if you connect a non-phantom powered mic like a Sennheiser 421 to a mixing desk feeding phantom power to it? Will it break?

I'm in the market for a new soundcard. There's an aspect of sound cards that I don't get. Namely, can I put any old 8-channel A/D D/A converter break out box with any old 8-in, 8-out sound card? For example, can I attach a Behringer Ultragain Pro8 ADA8000...

Hi, sometimes, when I switch my guitar amp on, I get a terrible humm. It's a constant tone and it won't go away. Sometimes it goes on for hours and I don't know what it is. Other times it stops after I pull out the plug and push it in again. I've heard of 60 Hz groundloop humm and as we in...

Does anyone know where I can get hold of a English manual for the Akai S3200 sampler? I've got a German one when I bought the thing but I'd prefer english. I've been to the AKAIPRO.com site and they only offer the S3000 which has less features. Thanks for any help

what's an "ADAT Bridge 16 Bit" and what do they do?

Hi there, I have a small studio in a celler apartment. There's one double-glazed window in the control room, outside of which is a kind of drainage and lighting "box" measuring approx 4"x4"x4" where the light gets in and the leaves gather in autumn. The top of this box is a grid at ground level...

Hi, I've got a Marshall head called "100 watt lead and bass" with a gold coloured front. Model number: 2195; voltage: 120/240; frequency 40/60~; watts: 190. I don't know if it's a valve amp or not but when I opened it up there were these two blue cylinder things about two inches tall and about...

Hi, I don't understand the relationship between the busses on a mixing desk and the sound card. It seems to me that if you are using 8 microphones to record simultaneuosly and you wanted each of those microphone signals to be recorded on seperate tracks in the sequencer then obviously, you...

Hi, I have a problem trying to understand what audio interfaces are for. As far as I understand, an audio interface (like something by MOTU or the PROTOOLS 888) sits inbetween the mics you are using to record with and your audio card. Or does it sit between the mics and the desk? If you are...

Hi, I need to find a website which will let me enter the notes of a chord and it will spit out the name of the chord. I'm writing music on a piano for a singer and I have to write out the official names of the chords. The problem is, I don't know what they are sometimes. Here's an example (ON...

Hi, I'm looking for advice on how to record a band. I've never done it before. I produce loop-based music purely as a hobby and I've only ever recorded myself playing and singing. I've got a mac with an Audiowerk 2 card and thus have only got two ins and outs to play with. The band I'll be...

Hi there, I've just been given an old external JAZ drive and I want to connect it to my Akai sampler. I've had a look at the back of the sampler and I can only see one SCSI port. I would ideally like to have the JAZ in between my mac and my AKAI in a SCSI "chain" so that I can easily send data...

If I want a guitar to sound as though it's playing on the left I simply pan it left. Ditto if a bass or a voice should feel like it's playing on the right - I pan it right. But how do I pull an instrument or a voice "forward" or push it "back" in a mix? In other words, how do I get it to sound...

Can someone help me with the following: I'm in performance mode on my Roland JV 1080 which means I can play up to 64 voices on up to 16 midi channels. I've set up my performance on the synth as I want it played back by the sequencer; in other words the right patches(sounds) on the right midi...