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Lol. I love religion. I've been in this game a looonnnggg time. I sold Apple's Lisa computer and I've sold Macs. I've actually handled an Apple HardFile (an early external HDD) and I welcome anyone here to guess how much storage THAT thing had (good luck with Google). The only difference...

Those two ports on the front of the unit are combo ports that'll accept either XLR or TRS (1/4" tip/ring/sleve). You'll need phantom power on for your mic Note that 1/4" plugs come in TRS (tip/ring/sleeve) and TR (tip/ring). You have to look at 'em. TRS should work fine with XLR provided the...

For someone who doesn't know what he's doing you're doing better then I am. Not like that's hard or something. I think it could benefit from some modest auto-tuning.

No need. Manufactures either grow their own DAW apps (Mackie with Traction), buy another company (Roland with Cakewalk), or partner up in marketing (Focusrite and Akai with Ableton, Tascam with Cubase), etc.. But regardless they'll all work with each other. There are DAW apps without any...

Marketing is not functionality. Ableton LIVE got it's start as a fast-response sequencing app marketed to DJs but now is every bit as full featured an audio recording DAW as anything else. If you understand it and it does what you need it to do who gives a damn what the marketing department...

Personally I think it's awesome but you must understand, just because someone likes it doesn't mean you will, anymore then you will like a restaurant that your friend raves about or the same movies. Most everyone offers demo and/or 'lite' versions. Download a bunch and see which feels the most...

Well I don't know about THAT but if you can roll-your-own you'll see some nice savings even without the economies of scale OEMs enjoy.

Oh. IMO if the application is OS transparent you'll always get more bang-for-the-buck in the IBM PC compat universe then the Apple universe though this largely depends on you being able to roll-your-own or buy custom. Consider the Mac Pro as sold by B&H... Apple Mac Pro 12-Core Desktop Computer...

Everybody's experience is different. At Paramount...which of course was video... Apple and Avid were huge. ProTools was where it was at when I was looking at commercial studios (and personally I think ProTools kind of sucks) but that's just what was out there at that time. Your experience is...

I know that not everyone learns in the same way. But IMO you can do a lot worse then pounding on tweakHeadz... you'll get a headache but it'll start to make sense, and you'll not have spent any money. Ignore the ads. I'd look at what your school is using to record in the music department...

Given your relatively modest budget obviously you're going to have to economize across the board. It'd be nice to go with high end RME or Zaxcom gear, listen to your mix on a pair of Barefoot MiniMain 12 monitors, but you'd have to double your budget and even then you wouldn't have any external...

Whatz the best mic for rap and hip hop under $50?

Starting to see DAW software specifically engineered to be manipulated by multi-touch monitors, which to my mind would allow a multi-touch monitor to serve as a control surface. Is anyone aware of an example where this is being done?

No question we'll see niche technologies trying to find a marketplace. I don't know what challenges broadcasters face, what topologies or protocols are going to appeal to a large studio. The biggest install I've worked with is a medium sized church and that was plenty confusing enough for me...

Lol @ 'Thunderfart'. And I largely agree when it comes to laptops. Laptops are fragile, constrained by their form factor, unable to be upgraded, and relatively expensive... and thus unsuited for most (not all, just most) serious audio.

You don't. I haven't come across DAW software yet that will recognize two sound cards at the same time.

If I understand you... iffy... you want to run a line level unbalanced out into an XLR port intended for a microphone. I wouldn't. If you do let us know what happens.

$160 for one Focusrite vocal channel and a guitar input seems a little steep but it's purty and I can appreciate the attraction of simplicity.

Given you have the camera kit that provides a USB port into the iPad any USB based soundcard works but you need a powered USB hub because the iPad doesn't put out enough juice to power external sound cards by itself.

Meh. I have the money, but it's an intellectual exercise right now until the kids buy a bigger home. I've been struggling with interfaces for some time, dithering between buying a PreSonus StudioLive digital mixer, or a RME Fireface UFX and a control surface. I'm not all that enamored with the...