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Yeah, a real monitor makes that very nice. I have a plethora of Akai DR16's and a few DR8's racked up and when I bought the official akai remote (DL1500) for it, that remote came with an AT keyboard interface and a VGA monitor output, allowing me to view far more information than what the tiny...

A friend of mine has one of those and I must admit I do like working with it a lot actually. It records very well and is easy to operate. I can tell you dead sober there are much better ways to do it. The reason why I keep my 244 around is simply because I already have it, and have boxes of...

All the DX7 cares about is that it receives 2.2-3V for memory backup, and while that's normally done with a 3V lithium coin-shaped battery (CR2032) soldered to the motherboard, you can unsolder that and replace it with an ordinary AA size two-battery holder. That gives you 3V. To check the...

Clearly you haven't met my mother lol.

You forgot the plunger and the funnel :D

That's okay, be as biased as you like. I'm not disagreeing with you, but I was sharing the "perfectionist's view" of my mentor. It's actually not a bad philosopy/attitude considering what I know you mastering guys get stuck with from time to time, if not very often. I can only imagine lol.

Portastudios by any brand are convenient as they're ready to go very quickly from when you power them on, they have built in mixers, and you can buy tiny ones or big ones depending on your needs in regards to input channels and simultanious track recording. Easy to use, and you can toss them...

In my mind there are seven basic steps in the music creativity process: 1. Idea. 2. Songwriting and Lyrics from that idea. 3. Performance of song and lyrics. 4. Recording that performance. 5. Mixing that recording. 6. Mastering that mix. 7. Duplication and distribution, of said master. Since...

Yes, just like any outboard/effects unit. The difference is instead of a hard-wired, single purpose device, it's a PC that can do many things. Yes, the built-in audio of the PC is probably crap. Not always, but usually. You'll also need some VST effects/outboards to use the Chainer PC as...

Same here... the effort was worth it in the end however it's a miserable job. I had 22U of 48-port TRS bays to solder up, plus wordclock, plus several s/pdif, plus rs232/rs422. Ethernet was easy though, punch tool and about a minute. I think soldering ruined my vision though... I have a...

Jim, Yes, that's true, you don't know who you are talking to, though there is nothing wrong with asking those giving you advice where and how they acquired/learned the information necessary to give that advice. You'll get the typical answers - books, practical experience, training and...

heh-heh. I didn't necessarily aim that at you specifically... basically what I'm saying is carpeting is fairly useless for acoustical purposes and all I'm trying to do is set expectations correctly. I would hate to see someone spend time and money carpeting their studio (walls, floors and...

I misread your original post. Where you wrote "DAW" I somehow interpreted "recording console and recorder". I'll explain what I do with examples, and hopefully it's clear enough to follow. Let's say I want "autotune" for my analog or digial console. I can buy a complete, autotune rackmount...

That's fine, there's nothing wrong with using a lower standard than a pro studio because that lower standard is within budget. Even pro studios do that. That's not the issue. Giving false information, even with the best of intentions with the belief that it is true, isn't very helpful to the...

Chainer is just a VST hosting engine that runs on XP or Vista, and you load your VST outboard and instruments on top of that. That's all it is. It basically converts a PC to a VST-based outboard effect or a VST-based synthesizer, piano module, bass module, drum machine, or whatever else you...

Well Bstars, you and your colleague will be receiving lots of ribbing (see above) but I will simply welcome you to the world of recording. Reminds me of when I got started - with far less than you guys have. My one piece of advice - don't oversell your abilities, whatever they are, meek or...

I use "chainer" for that purpose. It's a standalone VST "host" program that allows you to install VST instruments and effects. It responds to midi and uses certain soundcards. WHile I have used it on occasion as a VST outboard effect unit, mostly I use it as a VST instrument library. Chainer...

Like this guy lol.

Actually, it doesn't. It checks that the ground of the outlet is connected to the neutral buss/ground bar in the breaker box as is correct, but it doesn't check if there is an earth ground - which is different - that's the connection from the box to the earth - either through a cold water pipe...

I use an external "NAS" appliance - a Buffalo Terastation "Live" as my data hard drive. It has four 500 gb drives arranged as a raid-5 array, so it's about 1.5 tb of usable space. My desktops has the OS and applictions installed, and my c:\users\frederic directory is mounted on the Terastation...