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You will have to get a USB to midi adaptor, there are some reasonably priced units out there. Alan.

Well there is a bit to think about here. I have bought drives that act up for no reason at all, and usually I just write them off, never thought about trying HFS, may have to try this at some point. You could try plugging the drives into the PC and formatting the drive using the PC to Fat32...

I may not be understanding of what you are doing, but I have transferred midi from an Atari 1040 to newer midi software by simply connecting the midi out from the Atari to the Midi in of the software (or rather the midi input of the midi to computer device, in this case 1 midi input) Tell the...

I was going to say forget the hire and buy a Zoom recorder, then I read the date LOL. Alan

My control room is approx 16 long x 11 wide x 9.5 high. The room sounds great and the mixes translate well outside the studio. I have Ceiling clouds to counteract the low ceiling height, Bass traps on the front wall (short wall, the wall you face) a diffuser on the rear wall. The floor is a...

I don't say I never use it (I never say never)but I'm not too fond of it. However John Lennon was the master of it, in fact you would be hard pressed to tell it was double tracked most of the time. One interesting double track I did do was my wife's vocals on an old album from a band we were...

I really don't like double tracked vocals at all, better to get a good vocal take and use that. A lot of singers try to double track at my studio to cover up deficiencies in their vocals, basically I now get 2 deficient vocal takes that when put together have timing and pitching problems...

Don't you mean: i can't hear everything that is missing :) Alan.

The Girl is Denishar Woods, she will never recover from this which is very sad. Due to it being a State housing house (government for overseas readers) there is a responsibility by the government to help them in the situation. However it has not been reviled who is responsible for the actual...

This turned into Ben Hur, the question was "How many people can hear the difference between..." so its can YOU hear the difference between. Not this other person can or can not LOL When I first saw the post I just knew it would turn into this :facepalm::facepalm: Alan.

I would not use ampex at all. I have Emtec (BASF) tapes that are 20 years plus old and work perfectly. Alan

I would say that the tape has passed its use by date. If you can get a pass with the tape be ready to do the transfer. You could try baking the tape? But have a good read up on this first so you don't mess it up. Alan

Bob, many venues now want to see testing tags on gear, the test is for earth continuity and wire insulation being up to scratch. Why would anyone bother putting earths on gear if we followed your logic? We recently had a young girl brain damaged for life, most likely because the MEN link...

I find it depends on what you are listening to the music on, and how you are listening to the music. If you playback system is very high end you will notice some difference. If you are listening to bud type earphones, computer speakers, etc. no difference. If you have the music playing at...

I don't know Fabfilter, but recently I was mastering a reggae album I had been working on and after the mastering compression went on the bass was bit strong. I fixed it by a multi-band compressor at the end of the chain, and on the multi-band lowering the output of the low end and some of the...

What you are talking about here is the problems you get when 3 phase power is used within a studio or live concert situation. Say for example the stage power is on 1 phase and the PA power is on a different phase, there can be residual volts between the phases of just a few volts due to...

Exactly Alan.

I was at a live gig once and went to sing and get a shock, pretty heavy one. I always insist at shows that they plug in the bass DI to the PA, that way I am connected to the PA earth via the shield. Of course this does not matter if using a wireless system as long as the PA is earthed. The...

Try this as an earth check. If you have a guitar lead handy with a jack one end and bare wires on the other plug the jack into any unused socket on the mixer. Connect the shield end of the bare cable to any chassis screw on the guitar amp. Do you still get a shock? Alan.

I don't know if the answer is simple, I have recorded small string sections for Pop, Rock even Jazz, and it kind of depends what effect you want. One of the best results was recording the string section twice and panning each string section as they sat together and then paned each string...