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That sounds great, similar to what I want to do. I want to write in a style and record songs produced in a way that is repeatable in a house concert environment. That is the market I am looking toward. I got to be the opening act at one and it was the most incredible gig I have ever played...

This is great advice. I have had writer's block off and on over a 37 year long span of songwriting and it really is not so much not being able to write at all; it is always a case of "yeah, that's a song, but it's not as good as (fill in the blank, whatever your best song ever written is...

I haven't been recording drums for too long, so take that into account, but in my experience, the snare mic aimed at the top of the snare does not get the snap of the snares at all. It can be captured in the overheads or you can put a another mic on the bottom of the snare and flip the phase on...

I don't see the audio interface you are using to connect to your laptop. What is it? I would like to save you the time and heartache of going down the "what is the best preamp", "what is the best mic" rabbit hole. Work with the preamp you have right now; don't buy the cheap tube preamp yet...

Happy New Year to you too! I'll be glad to help any way I can. Bill

The 52 sounds surprisingly good on my upright, a great combination of finger attack and the fundamental note. I thought the SM7b was my go to mic for upright until I tried the 52. I am not in love with the way it sounds on kick yet. I rented an AT e602 or something like that for awhile and...

From what I can tell, you are looking at: Pro Tools MP on the Project Mix, which gives you 8 inputs PC to run it on Extra RAM Headphone Distribution amp for 6 musicians all preinstalled My questions to you to give you better answers are: How new to all of this are you? Do have any...

You will need this: Lightpipe Optical Cable (TOSLink/ADAT) Guitar Center had them in stock when I got my ADA8000. I recommend getting 2 of them and connecting the ADAT in of the Digi 002 to the ADAT out of the ADA8000 and the ADAT out of the Digi 002 to the ADAT in of the ADA8000. Read...

I like it on upright bass Recommended on bass cabinets too

I am running 10.4.9, PTLE 7.3 and Quick Time 7.1.6 with an Mbox1 on my 12" ibook and it works fine. Very stable, my 21st century version of the Portastudio. I use it more than my Digi002 Rack just because it is simple, reliable and always ready to go. bilco

Behringer ADA8000 - all I could afford at the time, works fine when I need to record the band live. I have had no problems with it at all in the ~ 2 years I have owned it. bilco

I have played upright about a year now. Here is what I have found so far. SM57 = keep looking SM81 ~ 1 foot from bridge = good SM7b ~ 1 foot from bridge = better Beta 52 ~ 1foot from bridge = strange, but I like it The Beta 52 was a big surprise. The builtin EQ captures the attack of the...

I had a suspicion that guitar mic #1 was the AKG because I rented one for a day and got pretty much the same sound you did. I didn't like it on vocals or acoustic guitar, but I figured part of it might have been an untreated room and part of it may have been recording into an Mbox and a...

4 right now: Overheads - 2 Shure SM81s in X/Y Snare - e504 or SM57 Kick - Beta 52 or Shure SM7b I have a 2nd e504 and have only experimented once with recording top and bottom of snare and flipping the phase on the bottom mic First recordings I did were: Snare - SM57 Kick - AKDD112 I told...

tangerine, I just talked to the drummer in my son's band and his father is a famous conjunto accordianist in the valley here in Texas. He uses the SM81, that it works better than anything else he has tried. FWIW bilco

For accordian?? I recommend a shotgun mic......... Oh, I'm sorry; I meant use a shotgun......... :p Seriously folks, take me Hohner, please...... Try an SM81 and then try an SM7b. They will each bring a different character and you can decide which one helps it sit in the mix the best. An...

The SM7 is a great mic, it just costs $350 new and it gets used for a lot of vocals in Nashville. I had a Rode NT1a and I really liked it except for the noise factor. I could literally hear the dog's collar jingle on the other side of the house, trucks going by, birds chirping..... It also...

+1 I have been down the "gotta have a condenser" road and I never found one that was as flattering on my voice as my good old SM58. Like mentioned above, if you sing pretty much right into it, you don't have to worry so much about external noise. Every condenser I used picked up dogs...

In defense of PCs, I have to say (even though I am a dyed in the wool Mac convert now,) I picked up a used Dell GX240 for $120 yesterday and it is a sweet machine. It took no time to get it up and running. It is fast, stable and reliable; we used these at work for several years and they really...

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