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Yes. With many keyboards (including my Yamaha) there's only one outlet and it may be marked something like Phones/Output which means that it doubles as both. It should be a stereo output so you may need to take that into consideration too. With mine I use a cable that has a stereo jack at the...

Good one! Thanks for posting your success story. :) I'm currently trying to evaluate what I'm hearing. My monitors sound good, but I know that the sound still isn't reliable. I downloaded a test file for the tricky bass frequencies and it's pretty revealing. Play it through headphones and it...

[EDIT: Beaten to the post by Rami! So this is more or less a repeat...] I may be misunderstanding your question, but there's no audio at all in a midi cable. Midi just transfers instructions about which note to play, velocity, length etc. You control a virtual instrument that lives on your...

Firstly, did you record her voice on separate tracks or is it all combined now? (Separate is better). I'm pretty new to this too, but I've been getting some lessons at a friend's studio and here's how it seems to me so far: Basically, there seem to be a big range of technical possibilities...

Yes, that was my first impression too. :D Without checking, I assumed that perhaps Leanne, like Pat, Evelyn or my own name - Chris - might even be a unisex name. So Leanne might be either sex and doing just the recording, or both narrating and recording - or even posting on behalf of a...

Hi, I had a listen to your sample and thought that you did a pretty good job for an amateur demo. It's worth remembering that many of the professionals in the area probably started just the way you have, by having to convince somebody that they could do the job. My first impression was that...

+1 to the advice above. Don't bother trying to connect mics etc straight into the computer. Depending on the mic you buy you may end up not being able to pick up a signal at (without a pre-amp) or just get poor results. If you start experimenting with trying to run the output of a guitar amp in...

Another vote for those two. Sound on Sound is an excellent resource - they also have a great archive of articles on-line that non-subscribers can read. They do tend to be pretty high end, so it's mostly not written at newbie level, but if you're prepared to put some time into it the...

I have the earlier model Axiom 49. It wasn't all that easy to find the Enigma software as it doesn't seem to be offered on the M-Audio site any more. I did find it eventually but it was only simple if you know a bit about midi already. The older Axiom was reputedly awkward to set up with Pro...

Hi, In principle, this seems like a really good idea. I wonder if anybody has any success with it? Presumably, some sort of portable solution could be handy for all sorts of instances where a recording engineer needed to travel to the artist, rather than the other way around. But it could be...

Hi, Assuming you've taken the above advice and bought the lamp...;) You'll probably be using the room for a bunch of different things, and what may be a problem for one thing may be just fine for another, and so on. I need to treat my own space too, so this is pretty much my current advice to...

Well done Santa. :) What sort of 'midi controller' do you mean? I have a midi keyboard which plugs straight into a USB port, not the audio interface. But it also has the conventional midi in and out sockets too, so it seems there can be more than one answer to how and where you hook up. Other...

There's probably not a lot of point spending time and money until you actually know what problems you're trying to solve. I'd recommend getting to know your gear and your room first. Until you do some testing, and get some experience, solutions based on guesswork and second hand advice...

+1 Learning to sing is like learning to get control of any other instrument - there are things that you need to know, and do you need to practice regularly. Like learning guitar (for instance) you can get the knowledge in a combination of ways - by listening and watching, from friends, from...

My guess is that it might run but not well. I had Pro Tools 8LE running on an iMac that's from 2008 and has only 2gig Ram. It seemed OK, but I was only doing simple things on it. I've since upgraded to PT 10 and I now regularly get pop ups telling me that it's running low on memory. And all...

Here's the comparison chart at Avid Compare Unless you are anticipating very large projects PT 10 should be fine. With a very large wallet. ;) You need different hardware, possibly including a better computer. You need these dedicated card gizmos Pro Tools HD Chris

Sounds good. :) I just bought a better audio interface, in part because the preamps in it got good reviews and my first interface was all round pretty basic. That is SO right! :D I have so much fun upgrading that I barely have time to learn to play my instruments properly or record...

Exactly. That's what I'm both recommending and doing myself. But the difficulty faced by newcomers is that you can read and conclude as much as you like but you still lack the experience to know where the balance actually lies. Sometimes the issues turn out to be relatively minor (except to a...

+1 Tweakz has some great tutorials and general information. My contribution to a newbie thread would be this: Don't confuse Mixers and Audio Interfaces. Find out the difference before you buy a mixer. You may be very disappointed if you buy something you don't actually need (a hardware...

Hi again, I'd guess that this is a very common point of confusion and that it's not unusual for newcomers to buy a mixer when they really need an audio interface. They actually don't "effectively do the same thing". Here's my take on it, and I hope somebody will jump in and correct me if I'm...