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Good point, but I do have a second cable returning from the 8pre to the 828. Though I haven't ruled out a clocking issue entirely yet. BUT, since we were able to track to my buddy's iBook with no issues, I'm 99% ready to rule out the MOTUs as the problem. I'm home now so this evening I'm...

Thanks guys for the input. I was away from my computer today and am pleased to have some stuff to try when I get home tomorrow. Geoffry - I don't believe the issue is on the analog side of things. I used an A&H MixWiz on my front end so can monitor levels really well coming in. I can also...

On Saturday I had my band come over to record. Drums, harp, guitar and bass. Took up 14/channels tracks. Listening back to the first song we recorded, we noticed a few cracks and pops on the tracks. When I'd solo just one track, I discovered that indeed it wasn't a playback issue and that...

Wow, from LA to MA... probably in the range of $50 or $60.

Thanks for the kind words all. Here's a thought for sockswitchshoes: maybe some other forum members would be willing to help cover shipping? Of course we'd all want to be mentioned in the "thank you" section of your first CD :)

Ok, here's the deal. These were my very first real studio monitors. I got them when I was about 22 and they were my primary speakers for about 10 years. About 5 years ago they went into closet storage. I realize active monitors can be had for $150 and that not many people still use or want...

What kind of guitar will you be using? AT4041's would be fine but if you are recording a "lesser" guitar, no mic is going to make it sound better. I once recorded a guy playing a late 60's Gibson J-200 with a RODE NT-1 at the 12th fret and an SM-57 pointed at the bridge. Best acoustic guitar...

Still have 3 of the 3M snakes left. Make me an offer... PLEASE!

I recently updated my PC to a Win7 64 bit machine. I'm running Sonar 6 currently, but on the Sonar 6 install disc is a 64-bit version. It ran fine but none of my VST plugins would run nor would EZ-drummer. From a quick scan of some internet info, it looks like those tools are 32-bit and I...

Double post. Sorry.

I have to agree with Massive Master here. Bass traps made of 705 or 705 will always be a better use of wall/ceiling space, not to mention money. My studio is in a 16'x12' bedroom. I used to have foam everywhere and my mixes actually were worse than when I had nothing at all. I then started...

It's funny that this thread has gone this direction. One of the arguments that this band brought up a few times was that live albums/DVDs sound fine with singing drummers... Going down the road of trying to explain overdubs on live albums would probably get me nowhere. So we'll try a 57...

UPDATE: after using up about half of my day off, here's where I'm at. I disabled the onboard sound card and set the MOTU buffer to 512 as per a suggestion elsewhere on the net. Media Player is working flawlessly. In messing around with different projects that some where playing fine in both...

Now trying to uninstall Sonar 64-bit and install Sonar 32-bit. No idea if this will work, but Sonar just isn't working correctly as is. It won't scan for plug-ins, it won't find my MIDI interface, etc. Wondering if Sonar 6 is just too old for a Windows 7 machine?

Thanks! Yeah, it looks like ASIO drivers will work. Now I can't understand why SONAR doesn't seem to "remember" stuff though. I tell it what MIDI to use, but each time I restart the program it forgets. I keep trying to tell it where the VST plugins are and it doesn't seem to take. I wish...

UPDATE: so when I change the driver mode from WDM/KS to MME, it seems to recognize the MOTU device. On the old setup however, I was using the WDM/KS drivers. I'm wondering if the onboard soundcard has anything to do with this. My old computer had a MIA-MIDI card in it from before I had the...

I just received a new PC for my recording setup. OS Windows 7 64-bit, 3.2Ghz Intel Dual-Core, 8GB RAM, 1.5TB. I have a MOTU 828mk3 as my interface and am running Sonar 6. The MOTU and Sonar worked together great on my older PC, just having some trouble getting it running on the new PC. I...

I'm not concerned with drums on the vocal track, just vocals on the drum tracks.

Not sure I follow. Are you saying not to record the vocals from the drummer or the drum parts? Not sure how I see either will help though...

Yes, everyone will have phones. I can actually send 4 different headphone mixes to the main room so I'm thinking I'll make the vocals pretty hot in the drummer's mix while he's singing with the hopes that it will encourage him to sing pretty quiet. If that still puts too much bleed into the...