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And cleaning the heads is a simple matter with Q-tips and rubbing alcohol. Keep the cassette tape path clean and the signal will transfer as cleanly as possible.

If your computer already has a soundcard of some type installed, they usually have two input jacks; mic in and line in, usually 1/8" stereo for the line in. If you can borrow a cassette player someplace, all you might need is a cable from Radio Shack or similar to connect the tape player to the...

The profire unit connects via firewire to the computer. The ADAT ports on the back allow you to connect ADAT devices, which the Profire also sends to the computer, which increases your channel count. For example, my brother bought a Profire 2626 and I gave him a blackface ADAT to use with it...

The noise floor on tape was so high that recording hot masked the noise better, plus you got a pleasing compression effect. But with digital you have a huge amount of dynamic range, so you can safely back off the levels. Digital clipping is very ugly, and can't be fixed in the mix. Drums...

set up your software with an aux, send the tracks you want to effect (vox for example) to the aux, route the aux to one of your unused outs on the profire, through the fx unit (set 100% wet - 0% dry), than return the processed signal back in through an unused profire input to a track in your...

I have a Phonic Helix 18 that ran like a champ on a Sony Vaio laptop with vista (since back-graded to XP due to the annoying permission authorizations vista kept popping up in other matters not related to audio). You asked about driver selection, and that isn't done in the phonic driver ap, but...

I use the Lightbridge to connect ADAT devices to my laptop. I have 24 channels of ADA8K ADAT pres, an ADAT XT and an ADAT HD24. I also have an RME Hammerfall PCIe card in the tower that provides the same ADAT lightpipe connectivity, but with the additional feature of the zero-latency Totalmix...

There are many option Bobbsy, including interfaces that have direct monitoring, as well as traditional mixers. The (relatively) new RME Totalmix FX even allows you to put verb on your ITB cue mixes. My first nice interface I bought back in the late 90s was an ST Audio C-Port 8 channel rack unit...

None of the guitar pickups I have heard avoided sounding thin and unnatural. But if its a live gig, use the pickup for convenience. If its a recording in a controlled environment., use a mic. Omnis if you have a nice sounding room. Cardis if you have to close mic.

People with a good sense of timing can detect even relatively small amounts of lag (the delay time caused by a signal passing thru AD-DA converters, getting processed by the computer, then reconverted on the way back out. With a small and inexpensive analog mixer, you can give the talent a...

If you look at classic rock tracks pre the loudness wars, there is clearly more dynamic range. Following Bob Katz' thinking, set the RMS average levels (not peaks) on your master bus at -12 or -14 with your peaks hitting near (but still under) zero. i limit at -.3, but that's a personal decision...

Reaper can easily accomplish this. Create a track (ctrl T)and label it Slap. Apply the delay effect to this channel, 100% wet and 0% dry. Click on the 'IO" button for the Slap channel and a dialogue box will open. Click the create new receive box and tick off each of the vocal channels that you...

If you are looking for a vocal slapback effect ala Lennon/Elvis/Sun records, around 80-120 ms is a good starting place to look for a delay setting. And don't do it via copying a track and sliding the copy in time. Create an aux bus and send your vocal tracks to that aux. Put a delay on the aux...

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Burn a CD of your mix, and then listen to it on as many different devices as possible; earbuds, home stereo systems, tv speakers, in the car etc. The more systems the better. Make notes about what you notice about the mix on each system, that varies from what you hear on your phones. Make small...

If somebody has an interface with ADAT lightpipe (or TOSLINK) connectors, you can pick up an old blackface or XT ADAT, don't even use the tape transport, and have an additional 8 channels of input for very cheap. For example, my brother bought a M-Audio Profire 2626 8 channel firewire interface...

My mom and pop worked in Ren festivals for years, now retired. He was a metal sculptor. The free-standing stands which they used for hanging small merchandise were in three hinged sections, each section about 4' X 7". Large enough to form a small vocal booth, yet light enough to carry with one...

I live in Ft Worth, which every 4 years hosts the Van Cliburn piano competition. The last time they showed some of the prelims on our local PBS station, I was paying attention to how they were micing the piano. They used a two-mic technique that looked like it was a combination of the two...

Before you start boosting vocal frequencies, first do some surgical cutting. Use a parametric EQ with multiple bands. Set a narrow width or "Q" of 5-10 Hz and boost by 20 dB or so. Then sweep the vocal slowly and listen for unpleasant sounds. They will be fairly obvious, like boxy sounds or...

For a limited budget, a low head-hours Alesis ADAT (either Blackface or XT20) can be found used in the $100 range. They each sold new for about $3k and saw worldwide use in pro studios 20 years ago, but now sell used for next to nothing. Both types use S-VHS tape to record the tracks, but are...