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You surprise me Rob! "Macolites" are always banging on about how "naturally suited" to audio work Apple products are whereas Windows machines need those tricksy ASIO drivers. In any event I doubt there are many mac setups that can beat a good PC combined with an RME interface and its superb ASIO...

I am confused here? I have truly never used any mac device but one of their oft vaunted "advantages" over Microsoft computers is that they do NOT require any drivers (Google "ASIO") and are indeed, from what I read pretty much "plug n play"? I suspect therefore that there could be some foible...

"i3" refers to an old Intel processor. I have an HP g6 laptop which has a 4core i3 CPU and 8G of ram and runs Windows 7 That laptop can and has run 20 tracks of Cubase ESS 6 with about, IIRC some 50% CPU hit. Interface was the rather good Native Instruments KA6. I now have a MOTU M4 which is...

In that case what you are doing is not remotely "stereo" so record each track as discrete mono then you can modify/redo/punch in etc as required individually. I see the suggestion has been made to record one part first , guitar say then sing to that? Good idea and it would be valuable to lean...

Not silly at all, newbs often get confused with this. I don't have an iPad so I shall assume it works like a computer with an interface? The Volt has two inputs so IF you connect two say mics you will have a choice. You can setup a stereo pair of tracks where they will be treated to any...

Inside a car is perhaps THE most unnatural acoustic place to be! A very small volume of air inside a pretty soundproof* skin. I would guess some of the really high end car makers engineer speakers or/and EQ the system to emulate to a degree the "average living room" but likely none that most of...

In any system that uses a hum cancelling coil the important thing is that it injects a hum signal of opposite phase (polarity to be more accurate) and of equal magnitude to the unwanted hum signal. Naturally since two coils cannot exist in the same point in space there are limitations to the...

I have owned the UMC204HD and found it well, "OK". I was a bit miffed to find it did not have two extra line inputs as my NI KA6 does. The mic pres are indeed very quiet but one could wish for another 6-10dB of gain. The biggest drawback to the interface is the stupidly low line output level...

You can get a month's free use of (what was Sony) Sound Forge from MAGIX. I used it years ago to clean up 50 sides of punk 45s for my daughter and burn to CD. Not quite, IIRC, a "one button fix" but not onerous to use. You might also ask around to see if there is a professional record cleaning...

The mixer seems to want up to 1 amp (1000mA) at +&- 10V. You can only get positive 10V reg chips so the best solution is a pair of adjustable regulators LM317/LM377. You should be able to buy a pre made PCB with those on it and, if yer lucky, the bridge rectifier and filter capacitors (2X 2200uF...

"Ooooo! Nasty!" (only Brits of a certain antiquity will get that reference!) From all that that has been said before I have to conclude that this is a strong, external RF field. Well, I SAY "RF" but either it is actually an 8kHz audio signal or it is a much higher frequency RF carrier that...

It is a much vaunted claim about USB that it is always "backwards compatible". I certainly have never had any trouble with 1.1, 2.0 or 3.0 but that is a high as I have got at the moment. I suspect there will have to be a point when USB xX cannot run 1.1 gear? The long cable that worked with the...

Hi Cool Cat, I can answer some of your questions I think from "first principles? But first let me nail down the operation of the Hum Bucker Guitar Pup? Yes, this has two coiis but they are not 'contra wound' merely connected out of phase*, usually in series. This would normally give a very...

Ey up chuck! I only copy the odd thing for my own interest or sometimes send to son in France. Dave.

Well, "protection" go hang! I have two devices that pass HDMI thru' and deliver composite video and stereo sound on RCA. OK it is not "1080" but then neither is You Tube! I have another that just sniffs stereo sound. Dave.

Please explain further. As far as I always knew USB 2.0 at least was bi directional. There is the power negotiation if nothing else? I use to have a USB 1.1 device the M-Audio Fast Track Pro interface. The mic pres were crap but the drivers were pretty good and latency with a dumb Evo...

My experience of USB cable issues is very low but I did have a problem some years ago. An NI KA6* was setup one side of the "studio" and 2, 5mtr USB A/B cables ran around the walls to two desktop PCs. One of the cables worked fine with both PCs but the other, a different brand did not. The...

" Often times newer opamps draw more current. Not a big deal if you are doing one here and one there on a smaller system, but can become a real consideration if you are going through and doing a whole mixer...might be too much for the PSU. Newer "faster" chips have the propensity to go into...

https://www.cef.co.uk/catalogue/products/29144-135mm-x-50mm-3-compartment-chamfered-dado-skirting-trunking-white-3m-length WRT chairs etc bashing walls, if the above dado rail* is installed at chair back height that effects some protection. I know you can safely run mains cable in the middle...

Hi Rich, yes I have the Dummies book and he tells us how to do that. The laptop is ultimately for my son. It is bigger that his present machine, 15.6" from 14" and the processor a bit later and faster gen'8 i5 512 SSD and 16G of ram so it should run his music work for the next five years OK? I...