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Listening to the track through monitors will give you a far more _accurate_ representation of the sound, so from there you should be able to better tweak the sound to your taste. Headphones aren't generally as good (but of course are a lot cheaper to buy) - but there are some decent headphones...

Cooperman, I've never had ANY dramas with Sony CD-ROM drives (don't have any Sony burners), and I've got eight of them in my office, so if they were dodgy, I probably would have got one by now. RE the SCSI/IDE option - one of the side effects about getting a SCSI burner (which aren't too much...

No, but generally they are the only ones that DO cause the noise. The inside of a computer is a veritable smorgasbord of electrical noise, in particular from the disk drives and CD-ROM (they have motors in them, which cause heaps of interference). It could also be somthing NEAR the computer...

You need to isolate what is causing the noise - is it the soundcard or the speakers themselves. Have you tried a different pair of speakers? If it is not the speakers, then it probably is the soundcard, so getting a new one should fix the drama - gaffa

The left side of the road is the ONLY side to drive on (I mean, who in their right mind would drive on the right-hand side?) :) - gaffa

OK, the 565SD is a cardoid dynamic mic, or so the Shure site tells me, which means it won't need power, so you can strike the phantom power problem. - gaffa

Make sure you're not using the mic-in socket on the sound card - it's shit. Use the line-in socket instead. Make sure that you don't have the recording level cranked all the way up, cos the little preamps on SB cards are also shit and will distort like there no tomorrow. Lastly, and I am not...

There are different grades of fibre cable, so I would assume that the difference in price would account for the different grades. I don't know how much of a difference it would make, or what the actual differences are in teh cable grades - possibly better flexibility etc. We are dealing with...

OK, what you're talking about is basically creating a redbook (standard audio) CD. Two ways - 1. Go out and buy a CD pressing plant, create your glass master, and stamp CD's away till youer heart's content. Kind of expensive... 2. (And I could be wrong about this). Some standard CD recorder...

Choy, The SB lIve will be more than adequeate for most home recording. If you can't easily get prosumer cards, well, you don't have a lot of choice. Hell, my sound blaster works fine, the output is great to my inexperienced ear, and its 1/10th the price (but one day I'll get a 'proper'...

Cooperman, Have you ever tried importing anything from the US (stuff worth more than $400)? I've been told before that we get charged sales tax/customs excise etc, but then I heard that these charges only happen sometimes. Any thoughts? - gaffa

You might want to try some of the larger removable storage drives like the Orb drive for backup - as well as being cheaper than (decent) tape drives, they're also faster when backing up. There might be other options out in the US that I haven't heard of, so look around. Also, and I know it's a...

Yeah, sorry about the conversion rate - I thought I'd divided the AUS$800 that basic sound cards start at correctly, but I guess I didn't. Why do we always pay so much more than the US? - gaffa

You can't just 'adapt' a balanced line to an unbalanced line and not get some of the interefence. A lot of adapters just short the common and the 'cold' line together, which gives you signal, but non of the benefits of the balanced line concept. To balance a line properly, the cold line needs...

The Sound Blaster Live card is a consumer/home market card, so it is not designed for the home recording system. If you are looking for a proper recording card, try something like the Wave/424 or one of the other 'prosumer' cards. These cards will cost you a lot more than Sound Blaster...

I don't think I'm going to help much, but as soon as I installed the (shareware version) Blueline plug-ins, the entire system went to the shitter, and I started getting errors left right and centre. The entire system also slowed down considerably - it was having trouble playing (not recording) 5...

Just be a bit careful using a mechanical switch, cos sometimes you can get the switch to 'bounce', meaning as you flip the switch, the swtich actually triggers multiple times. This occurs when one side of the switch has almost contacted wit hte other side, and the electricty either arcs across...

Eddie N, I got off my arse and found a RAID article for you. I haven't read the entire thing (it's reasonably long), but it does contain pretty pictures, and seems to explain RAID quite well. I'm a big fan of pictures in articles :) Once you get to the bit about the Dell RAID solutions, you...

I'm not going to suggest any places to go, or give model numbers etc., but suffice to say that while the PII 400 WILL be faster than the pII 350, the difference wouldn't blow your socks off. I'm recording on a Cyrix 333 machine that is so full of other shit that I was suprised that the thing...

Thanks guys, but you've got to remember I'm not is the US, and the currency conversion sucks, so the Behringer Composer, while a steal at $200US is actually more like AUS$500 in my shitty currency. I'm sure Cooperman understands the problem fully :)... I had a look at a Composer, and it looks...