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Could be different softwares competing for the driver. I get the opposite of that sometimes where I have to shut down Cubase in order to listen to reference material in another player. Next time it happens, use task manager (assuming Windows) to make sure no other audio software has launched...

Haven't used the Zed, but the preamps in the StudioLive are great. Very transparent and noiseless. You can turn them all the way up if needed and suffer no ill side effects. I've compared them head to head with LA-610 and Avalon 737 on a lot of different sources and they do just fine. It's...

Aside from the quality difference, the short answer is that your built in sound card (line in) only has one input. A sound card that is intended for recording will have at least two, more commonly eight.

Gotcha. Learn something new every day....

Yes. Yes it does. :) Forgive me, but what is "amanuensis software"?

And I thought "senior member" just meant you had been here a while. :) I assume you were kickin' it monochrome with that bad boy?

Cool stuff here. Not sure if I'm allowed to post pics yet, but I'll give it a shot. I have a lot of amps, but this one is a favorite (and all the talk of heavy amps reminded me of it cuz it weights a ton). It's a Mark IV that I restored. Completely trashed when I got it, I built a new...

It was more about the knob per function layout than the capability. I did not want menu-driven mixing. And to be honest, I wasn't really comparing it to other digital consoles because none of them (in this price range) had 24 faders. I was comparing it to my 32 x 8 analog.

The inserts are post gain, pre digital bus so they are also not available to the firewire return.

At the risk of dating myself, I remember recording 16 tracks simultaneously with a Penitum II 266mhz with 64mb of RAM. It was crash-prone, but it did work. That was Cakewalk Pro Audio 5 if I remember correctly.

I'm pretty opinionated about this because I build guitars for a living, but I'll just share two thoughts that I don't think come up very often in conversations like this; 1. Guitars are not always priced by how much better they are than another guitar. It costs a lot of money to make a guitar...

A lot of the guys that use the Fractal Axefx (myself among them) use either an EV ZAX1 or a QSC K8/10/12 for a full-range powered speaker option. This assumes that your guitar processor has cabinet simulators. That said, I got tired of hauling the "A rig" to informal jams and bought a Mesa...

Hard to beat the Motif. Breath, spit, all of that can be added or pulled back on the fly. Pretty cool.

I have a 1TB standard HDD in there for archival/backup, but I haven't had to lean on it yet. I never look at how much space is left, or the Cubase performance meter, or the UAD resource meter. It just works. It's how it should be.

I have both. I find Alloy pretty useless, to be honest. It just doesn't sound good to me. Ozone is great if you're going for that highly produced dance music sound (Pink, Kelly Clarkson), but on regular rock tunes it's too much a lot of the time. It has it's own parallelling function, but...

I'll never go back to normal drives. My computer boots in 7 seconds. Big projects load up in a quarter the time they used to take. FWIW, I'm using an Asus P9X79 with the 3820 i7 chip and 32GB of RAM. I have had ZERO issues running Windows 7 and Cubase 7 for about 5 months. No overclocking...

I have the StudioLive, and I also have a number of nicer preamps including the Avalon 737. There is a difference, obviously, between the built in preamp of which there are 24 in a $3k board and a dedicated, $2,500 preamp, but not as big a difference as you might think. If I'm mic'ing up a...

In that situation, I'll usually use two compressors, or a compressor and a limiter. First bring down the transient peaks to a reasonable level with a fast attack, high ratio. Then add punch with the second compressor by setting a slow attack that allows the transient through, but reduces the...

I've compared the two preamps you're talking about directly in a controlled way. While they are different, you're not going to experience a difference in the overall quality of your recordings using one vs. the other. For perspective, you'll experience a much bigger difference in the sound by...

It usually refers to "0" or "00" sized 12-fret guitars. One size down from the Grand Auditorium.