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What powered (sound) monitors would you recommend to go with a computer-based recorder? Or is amplifier + passive speakers more appropriate?

My studio is looking too cluttered with cables largely because they are too long. I would like to make some that are just the perfect length rather than the 20-footers I have been using. These will all be the 1/4 inch TS/TRS type. I need to make cables for the following: Source...

I will be recording a trombone duet (some Bach, some Telemann) in a small church. This is not for release but to help the performers prepare for a concert so minimal - if any - processing is preferred. They just want to hear what the audience would have heard. Mono or stereo pair some where in...

I'm building a cart for my recording equipment. While I don't currently have any rack-mount equipment I plan to get some in the near future (TC Electronics M300, Behringer headphone amp) so would like to equip the cart with rack rails...

Can any of you identify the organ or organ sound (maybe synthesized) used in verse 2 of Sara Evans' "Perfect" (off the album _Restless_)? If not familiar with the song, you can hear it in the video: http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/evans_sara/videos.jhtml thanks Sathyan

For use with phantom power condensers, is the Maudio DMP3 a step up from the preamps built in to the Yamaha MG mixers? thanks sathyan

The phantom power on my Yamaha MG/10 mixing console appears to have given out. Everything else is working but now I'm stuck with using my SM57 only (my condensers are offering hardly any signal). I see that Nady and ART have phantom power sources. How are they? Or am I better off getting an...

I wrote to SP tech support and haven't received a reply yet so hopefully forum members can help. I'm only able to get a very low (unusable) signal from the B1 condenser. It is connect by XLR to a Yamaha MG10/2 mixer. Phantom power is on. MicPre Gain, channel level and main level have been raised...

Do any of you have experience with the Behringer X V-Amp modelling / effects preamp? http://www.behringer.com/X-V-AMP/index.cfm?lang=ENG I have a keyboard amp which takes line-level and cleanly amplifies it signal chain: electric --> preamp --> Keyboard amp so I'd like to get a preamp for...

Which effects do you deem essential to record (i.e. use a pedal in line prior to A/D)? Which are better to do in software after having recorded guitar/bass? ??? reverb chorus flanger wah distortion octave EQ tremolo compression have I forgotten anything important

Is the Crate KX-15 keyboard amp any good? http://www.crateamps.com/html/product.cfm?pid=72 For recording I'll do line out direct to mixer; for live performance hook into PA. So I'm just looking for a practice amp for home use to use instead of built in speakers so I can insert an effects unit...

I going to be flying somewhere taking the following audio equipment: tube mic pre (Behringer MIC100) dynamic microphone (Shure SM57) condenser microphone (Studio Projects B1) Do these need to be kept in carry-on or can they go in baggage (in terms of environmental damage - temperature, pressure)?

Do you know if there is a "Adobe Audition for Dummies" book like there is for Adobe Photoshop? Is there one planned? thanks

I'm currently using a Creative Labs Audigy2 NX sound card for recording on my laptop (connected to the mixer's REC OUT). I'm considering an upgrade as the Audigy. Problems are: shrinking the soundstage, smearing the image, bass extension, missing brass overtones. It does the same thing to LPs -...

Do you do anything different mixing-EQ-compression wise when producing cassette tapes or just transfer your CD mixes to tape? is it worth using metal tapes? the tapes will be played back in a car thanks

how do you use an "insert"? My Yamaha MG10/2 mixer has inserts on a couple channels. The insert mixer input is a 1/4" TRS phone jack with a rated level of 0 dbu. I have a cable that is 1/4 TRS stereo at one end and two 1/4 TS mono at the other. If the TRS goes into the mixer, which TS goes to...

The reverb built into my keyboard doesn't do much. When I record I find that I usually add reverb to the recorded track in CoolEdit. I particularly like big room reverbs (church, concert hall, etc.) For live use is there an inexpensive reverb unit I could use with my keyboard? Input needs to be...

I find that when I record I am rarely satisfied with the sound built in to my keyboard (Yamaha PSR225GM) so I record the sequence to MIDI and then play it back for audio recording with SoundFonts. I would like to build a PC using (cheap) previous generation parts for using MIDI soundfonts in...

quite simply: how do they do that? I've been using some panning to widen the sounstage and make the "image" seem like a real live group could be situated there despite recording one-track-at-a-time but how do I move one voice/instrument behind another? It would be best if this could be done...

Like many of you I imagine, I don't have a dedicated studio room. So, I have to put away my toys including coiling up the cables (XLR, TS, TRS, Insert, RCA, etc). I just been using the twisting ties (like you find in the supermarket) they shipped with but these are starting to fall apart at the...