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I'm with Bouldersoundguy. The amp/speaker combination should work and Peavey make speakers that can be work horses but never sound great. I'm HALF with ecc83 on the "double the power, no square waves" thing. I stand by my "double the power" advice and, although avoiding clipping is a small...

It is my firm belief that you can reduce the symptoms but never completely get over tinkering with mixes. I have material going back several decades. The mixes I did at the time were long sense finished, accepted and used. However, I have all the projects archived on external HDDs and...

The other thing about using an earth stake is that how effective it is depends on the state of the soil you're driving into. Many years back I was working on a medium-large TV installation in central London and we originally specified an earth stake for the tech earth. However, after some...

What I meant by making monitoring easier, when you're multitracking you need an ability to listen to tracks you've already recorded as well as the new track you're laying down. It's also important (as discussed earlier) to have the minimum of latency. You could in a pinch listen to the output...

Question: with mention of the Babyface, I think we've all been sort of assuming that you'll be recording some stuff with live mics like a guitar or vocals or whatever. Will you ever need that ability or is your work strictly with the keyboard? I ask because if all you need is MIDI, you gain...

Okay. I still recommend more research on your exact needs before you start, but... RME make excellent interfaces but make sure the basic Babyface has enough inputs for you. Despite talk of 10in/12out or whatever, the basic box only has 2 analogue inputs and one stereo pair out plus...

Totally agree with Miro's post and I won't join the rush to advise on specific makes and models. However, a couple of details are in order. First, latency isn't a slight delay between pressing play and hearing sound. It's something that can be much more troublesome. Depending on your set up...

Yup. And in those days, the process of mastering involved much more physical control, to allow the cutter assembly to use as much deviation as possible for each groove while remaining within spec and not causing the groove wall to become too thin and interfere with intermediate grooves...

As Rob says, without the details of the speakers we can't give you a firm answer. Similarly, what are the amp power ratings? Peak? RMS? Something else? However, depending what reading it is, 300W, let alone 150W, is pretty low for most PA speakers. Second, there's a rule of thumb for PA...

^^^This. I've never needed any form of power conditioning, UPS, etc. with modern equipment and modern power supplies. However a faulty ground/earth can be fatal. One last comment...the only real need for a UPS is a situation where even a momentary loss of power can cost you money or lose...

They are. It's obviously helped by the fact that I know their sound so well but, for me, they combine a neutral analytical sound so I can hear details in my mixes with what's a really pleasant sound just to listen to.

Only VERY low resolution video. Even high quality audio only needs the track to vibrate 20,000 times per second. Video gets you up into the millions which would need a very tiny needle or a very big disc turning very fast. ...which reminds me of an 11 year old Bobbsy who thought he'd invented...

One of the problems is that so often stuff is supposed to be "plug'n'play" so they don't bother giving you an FM to R. ....which is fine as long as it works the first time but not so good if there's some kind of small error that takes days to trace. In some ways, computer life was easier in...

Yup. Meters are for setting levels during recording (or for set up during sound check for live). After that, only your ears really matter with slight reference to the master to make sure you don't clip.

Only just realised that I hadn't voted in this one (or at least it let me vote "Other" again). I use an ancient pair of Rogers Studio 1 speakers that I've been using, one way or another, since 1983. They spent 8 years as control room monitors at the place I worked and when we moved to a new...

Yup. Get the peaks right at the time of recording and let the dynamics go where the go. Then use your DAW's automation to change things during the mix. You gain (pun intended) nothing by splitting up the track so every section is at the same level--indeed you may end up putting the dynamics...

Since this thread has taken somewhat off topic, allow me to take it several thousand miles off topic... Just about the most fun I had with designing an audio system had absolutely nothing to do with recording or mixing. Way back when (I'm guessing late 70s) one of the journalists where I...

Of course there are 3U high 19 inch rack frames for 500 series gear...

ROFL! Their web developers are about as knowledgeable as their sales people!

Ditto. Even if I have a perfect take, I like to do one or two more. Sometimes this can be used for double tracking; other times it's got me out of a hole when a couple of days into the mix I find a slight error in the supposedly perfect take--I have material to edit to.