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If I'm missing something, let me know, but I noticed you said you didn't like being confined to two mics for drums. I don't think that should be an issue. I have an FD-8, and though I don't ever use many tracks myself, I think that you can use all analog inputs (eight mics, say) on drums at...

Say I've got an AKG 1000 S, an SM-57 and a grand piano. Oh, yeah, and plain ol' 3-band EQ (sweepable mids). Can I make the piano sound good when I record it? Thanks.

I've never seen Cakewalk used. I've never used it myself. How good is it? Are there glitches? It has compressors and EQs and effects for each track, right? How good are they? I love recording but I'm real poor. I love my FD-8 studio but it seems like I've got to spend a lot of money every...

Love my FD-8, but don't know how to tell if it has phantom power for condenser mics. I'd hate to spend a bunch on a mic and find out I need to buy something else to make the thing work. Does anyone know? Or at least how to find out? Thanks.

If my Marshall has a line out on the back, why can't I just plug it straight into my eight-track? Why do I want a direct box?

To Gearless: Bend, Oregon? Wow. My law school buddy is out from around there! We're in Boston... his name is Kimber Baumgartner... know him?

Thanks, all. At this point I'm leaning Nanosynth... but it really bothers me that I wouldn't have a pitch-bend wheel. That might cause me to go Casio. I don't know, but that is something I feel I must have. As a guitar-player, I can't imagine how much less I would enjoy the instrument if I...

I had been planning to buy a Casio WK-1300, thanks to advice I got earlier in this forum about it's abilities as a low-end synth. (I'm real poor.) Anyway, my parents have a really nice, attractive ($2000 in its day) Yamaha Clavinova that they're ready to retire. They said I could add it to my...

...oh, and the british thing? 100% fake, as I 'm sure you could tell... [This message has been edited by natmj (edited 01-30-2000).]

Yeah, the drums is the one thing about the first song that I wish could have been a bit more varied. I laid it at first without MIDI sync with a cheap old Casio drumtrack, then later figured out it sounded awful. When I decided to go back and put in a better drum track, it was such a huge...

I finally finished my first album. All mastered and duplicated, even. And a LOT of credit goes to everyone who helped me out here. SO MANY problems led to so many questions, and I got SO MUCH great help by digging through this site and the BBS. So now I'm finally on mp3.com (at...

Sorry I didn't reply sooner... I didn't know you all had responded. I use a cheap guitar. A Fender Strat, solid body. I think it has single coil and humbuckers at its disposal but it might just be single coil. My expertise is not that end of things. My amp is good. Real nice. A solid...

I don't even know how to ask this, but it's troubled me long enough that I want to try... How do I get a smooth lead guitar sound? Everyone on the radio seems to have it, though the best examples are hair metal songs. When I play/record, the guitar always sounds choppy because notes only last...

I need to mail individual CDs (with jewel cases) to my friends across the country. What is the best way to do it? I'd like to protect the jewel case from cracking but don't want to spend much money mailing it all. Thanks.

My first album is mastered and looking back I'm pretty happy with what the SM-57 did for me. I've got one and I used it on every stinking instrument and I gotta say, it handled to my liking. But perhaps I only like it because I haven't used others yet. I think I can spend up to $300 in the...

I'm looking to spend $200 to $400 on a keyboard for home recording purposes. Any suggestions? Thanks.

What's the best way to a) record a flute? b) mix a flute in with a piano so they co-exist nicely? I've had trouble with each. My only mic is an SM-57. Thanks.

I'm going to get my music officially copyrighted soon, but I sampled part of "Surfer Joe" by The Safaris (and wrote a song about their song) and need to get in touch with them. I've come up dry with ubl.com and with search engines. Any advice? Thanks.

Thanks for the info. I use an RNC, which is quite nice (Really Nice, rather), and never push it past 2:1 on the mixdown. Later.

"Compression" means two things, right? On the one hand, "compressors" like the Nanocompressor or RNC are what you use to work with the volume and all that. On the other hand, "compression" from a minidisc or VCR or DCC tape has nothing to do with volume . . . that kind of compression just...