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I've been planning to sort myself out a nice PC, a couple of soundcards and a 24 track mixer. But today I was producing a band in a fully Pro Tools studio. This was the first time I've worked with Pro Tools and it just shits on everything else from a great height. It's amazing and a total idiot...

It can get slightly more complicated but pretty useful with a mixer that has groups. Lets say you have 8 group outputs you could attach them to the input of the computer - then you can assign any of your 16 mixer tracks to any one of those eight outputs. That way for example you could have three...

Hi, I've got a few sci-fi trip-hoppy type beats that are crying out for a Dr Octagon style MC. Anyone up for it? Got any examples? Here's a link to one of my tracks called "Dr Deathray". http://www.loudmedicine.net/mp3/drdeath.mp3

Ask someone to keep a finger on the volume control?

Hey, what are these? They look cool. I want things with dials and knobs on too. :D

You want to EQ out those boxy sounds. Kick drums tend to make a horrible PNORK! noise when you mic them up. Scoop out the middle between 400k and 600k. Add a little 2k to 6k for the attack and add a little bottom for heavyness - not too much though. Then you want to compress it. That should give...

I got screwed a little on the Barclaycard ad. Apparently because the budget went to Mrs Pitt. I bet the Renault ad paid really well.

Oh, and by "another card" I mean so you have two 1010LTs working togeter not another brand superduper card with more i/o. I personally haven't found any other cards with more i/o that aren't megabucks.

You will have 8 i/o with a 1010LT. The only way you can get more i/o is to use something to convert the two SPDIF digital channels to analogue channels or to get another card. You can always buy one then another later if 8 i/o isn't enough. You'll be fine with 8 though. Anywhere between 4 and...

I would get a few more mics for the drums. You don't really need expensive ones particularly. You might want to get some mic stands too. If you've got six mics on the drums then you're going to need something to hold them in place. I've got three proper mic stands and the rest are bastardised...

I don't mean to offend anyone or anything but I personally find people who take the bible literally really, really scary. Adam and Eve? Sheesh! Of all the gods from all the religions I think I'd have to go with Thor. The most rock and roll of gods. :) Ganesh is the coolest looking though...

I wonder if you know that you guys, the jews and the muslims all share the old testament?

Christians and Catholics are different? What the hell are you on about? All christans were catholics until the pope disallowed Henry VIII to divorce. Henry VIII then decided that he was going to bypass the head of the christian church and become the head of the church himself. Incase you don't...

Easter was stolen by the christians. Originally it was a celebration of spring. Infact it was the celebration of the spring goddess eostre. Christmas was hijacked too. The whole modern notion of christianity has mutated over the years. For example, there were no paintings of jesus until the...

I started a year ago when I bought a Yamaha digital 16 track and a few mics to record my band. A year on I've recorded dozens of bands, had some of the recordings released on small labels, had one of the acts signed to Animal Nightlife, written/recorded music for a Hollywood film...

I'd clean up a kick drum track by using the best kick hit of the recording and copying/pasting it over the crap sounding ones. Sometimes you have a crap drummer to deal with and he'll hit things gently or at the wrong time. The whole drum track is a digital sample anyway (unless you're using...

I think your keyboard is broken.

It might be digital distortion. I sometimes get that if I have the guitar input too loud. For some reason it doesn't show so much on vocals if they are too hot.

Thankyou very much. :) I'm looking at all this kind of thing for September when I should have enough money to build myself a reasonable temporary home studio. I don't suppose anyone here lives in Reading and wants to go halves on a new studio?

Thanks Ethan. You know I'm looking for the stuff because of your articles. You should get commission from these people. ;)