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Thanks, as always, lpdeluxe. Just a couple of areas of your response I'd appreciate some elaboration on... 1. Re: "You can record the bass directly, by plugging into a direct box". What do you mean by a "direct box", pls? I'm using an old Tascam 244 as a line amp, and DI-ing bass and...

Just when I thought I was on top of everything, back I must rush to the good folk of this excellent forum. If you will indulge me yet again, I would be grateful. So... 1. I'm having some problems getting a nice, clear vocal sound in CEP without sounding obviously processed. I want the...

Thanks for the detailed responses, guys - much appreciated.

TravisinFlorida Thanks for letting me know that. Maybe I'm not hallucinating afterall! I have 1K of RAM, so I would have thought that would be more than adequate, but this undo function failure did arise after quite a bit of experimenting with applying various effects etc at a single session...

Buggered if I know why, but all is working normally again now. Oh well...not complaining.

Now that I've got my head around the basics with CEP, it's hard to stay away from the computer! Getting obsessive...I want to transfer some of my old records to CD. Just want to check with experienced users on how to best do this, any tricks/tips etc to maximise sound quality on CD. Will...

lpdeluxe No, I haven't disabled Undo - have already checked that. I'm not pausing CEP, either, so it ain't that. What the...?!!!!

Sorry, thajeremy, not with you. What are you referring to re "paused" and "stopped", pls?

Have encountered a new problem in CEP since yesterday - when in Edit trying out various reverb settings on vocals, applying Silence to various sections of tracks and applying any processing changes at all, I can't undo. I have the undo/redo function selected, but the commands are greyed out and...

thajeremy Thanks for the suggestion, but I'm using an old Kenwood integrated hifi amp, and I don't suppose it's been bridged - such an amp would automatically be in stereo, wouldn't it? When I play CDs through it, they are in stereo, so I guess that means the amp can't be bridged? Megaman...

lpdeluxe Re: "If your originals are on tape, it shouldn't take too long to re-record them." True, but once the original recordings are transferred to digital format in CEP, I'm adding bass and guitar parts - that's what's taking all the time. Re: "Over the next year or so I upgraded about...

Thanks for your advice, lpdeluxe - sage, as ever. I'll do the mixdowns, burn to CD and see how the songs sound. As you say, that's all that matters. If the CD doesn't pass my fairly picky listening test, I'll re-do the lot in 32 bit. I agree that one shouldn't waste time being precious...

Hi again, Megaman I'm listening through earphones plugged into the earphone socket on my Audigy 2 soundcard module. Any further clues from that info? This has got me stumped.

Thanks for the replies, guys. So, lpdeluxe, how much difference do you think it makes recording in 16 bit vs 32 bit? Is there a discernible compromise in sound quality such that I will need to start again and record everything in 32 bit (slap on forehead at the prospect)? I should add that...

Megaman The connection from the amp is via L and R RCA plugs that go down to a single jack into the back of the computer. I would have thought that the fact that there are L and R RCAs coming out of the hifi amp would have automatically meant that the connection was stereo - is this not...

I have some very old but excellent quality and pretty accurate Spendor hifi speakers set up on either side of my computer to act as monitors when recording and mixing down, and also as computer speakers. They are much larger than the average computer speaker and way less efficient, and can't be...

Just wondering if some experienced CEP users would please give me a few basic tips on mixing down. I've posted a few times in the past about recording and now have my head around that, thanks to the patient and detailed explanations of some of you guys (like lpdeluxe and ozpeter). I'm now at...

Thanks a lot to everyone for your time and effort. I am clearer on a few things now, and that puts me much further down the track than I was when I first posted my query. Appreciated.

PS: I'm only using one mike for vocals, and DIing the guitars through a Tascam 4-track (which I'm simply using as a means of inline amplification for the mike and tone adjustment for the guitars).

OK, thanks for the replies, guys - I'm beginning to see the light. It certainly makes sense to record in stereo if using a synth with a wide soundstage of strings etc, as pointed out above, and for a drum machine where the drum panning is already set. In my case, I've just completed...