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Beware! Subs majorly boost low frequencies. by all means use them to check later, but don't mix with them. a true sub woofer is designed to play frequencies below where a regular woofer rolls off, but subs are mainly used to boost bottom end. if you mix with them, what sounds like a good...

For placement, I like to put them on there sides, with the tweeter facing out. this'll widen your sound stage a little. If your using stands, then use wooden stands. metal stands can cause a little bit of resonance. if you are using a metal stand, fill the cavity with sand and you'll clear...

Wes, I bought a pair of NT3s yesterday, having loved them for quite some time. dunno about the yankee price on them, but I've seen them for 279 australian (retail here is 428, and I'd imagine being a local product we get it at a better price than america, where its an import...) The NT5...

sattelite systems are not designed for mixing purposes. sattelite systems really are a space efficient design, but the trade off in audio quality is staggering. even the best of these that I've heard miss a lot of mid range. even worse are ones that are designed for games or movies. the...

From the home audio perspective, the grills are really there to discourage kids from poking stuff into the driver. the cloth does subtly change the top end, and most people that are mad into sound will remove them. its a good idea to put the grill on when your not using them though, to stop...

The narrator from fight club?

Yep. I've started to mic up the guitar on electrics as well as the cab, because I really like the increase in the top end definition. :) Dr_Sbaitso

We did this country style tune, and wanted that acousticy tone, but the acoustic we had on the day was a shocker... missing two nylons strings... hehe. I put an AKG D770(which is a great all purpose mic) aimed at the bridge and another on the amp cabinet, and mixed the two sounds with the one...

I've always thought the sole reason to use shockmounts, pop screens and acoustic wedges/foam was to make your setup look hardcore :)

Stanley Kubrick often mixed his films in mono(2001 being a noticable exception...), becuase he didn't trust theatres to have there sound setup correct. nothing worse than seeing an object move left to right and having the sound of it go right to left. musics different and I really love the...

One of the first things I ever recorded we did the drums over three days, packing down and restarting ever time... listening to it now, you can hear that the setups are different in different parts of the song... but luckily, it sounded kinda cool with the drum sound changing in the choruses...

Jimmy Chamberlain is my pick. As for the siamese dream issue, in interviews for Zwan (he and billy corgans new project) the two of them are creditted as the authors of all the siamese dream material. Everytime I hear the smashing pumpkins, It makes me never want to try to play the drums...

Thanks guys, you just saved me some major coin. your completely right. absolutely no reason to buy a productthat isn't going to be supported, even though I was only planning to buy it as a stepping stone to learn on... Thanks! Dr_Sbaitso

I was just wondering has anyone used a Maxi studio Isis, and what they thought of it... it seems to me to be a really cheap solution to multitracking. I know its only a 20 bit card, but for a "newbie" is this going to matter? Dr_Sbaitso

The Wire I've used to run my equipment is lampflex, the exact same thing that electricians use to run small lamps and the likes. you can buy it from a hardware store very cheaply, or you can go to a hifi store and buy it for 3 times the price, but with a hifi brand label on the jacket. Dr_Sbaitso

comb the classified papers. Me and a mate have collected a stack of cool old keyboards (including my personal fave, the casio SK1) from the classifieds and op/pawn shops. we've got a great paper here in perth, western australia, called the quokka, Im sure there would be a local equivalent in...

I work in a hifi store, and Im always advising people against banana plugs. any extra connection hampers signal flow, and even a well soldered connection will result in a little bit of loss. Just use a good quality oxygen free copper cable, of a reasonable thickness. to ensure the best...

Over here, not only are rode mics cheaper, but there seems to be a price war going on. I know in perth at the moment, you can pick up the NT1000 for AUD$695 from kosmic sound (www.kosmic.com.au). this is great for us aussie too, because its significantly lower than the retail price...

thanks for the reply. Im using it at the moment just to mix the levels before the mix hits my soundcard. theres a lot of routing options, but I mainly either mix to the two channel, or use the direct outs. I,'ve been very impressed by the sound quality over my old mixer, but being a relative...

I've recently bought an old Tascam M312B Mixing console, and I was just wondering what other people thought about it? has anyone used one, and if so, what did you think?