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MONITOR MIX I seldom have any problems with musicians in the studio. My solution is to give each individual a different monitor mix on their headphones with the instrument they play as the loudest one. Problems comes during mix down, well I have my mix already on CD. I let them fight it out...

I would like to get everybody's opinion as to their preference when recording a five piece rock band with regards to the number of simultaneous tracks to record them with. I understand that you could do one, two, three, etc, tracks at a time, but doing so, you tend to loose spontaneity in the...

BOILS DOWN TO Dont forget, everything gets written down as 16 bits at 44.1 khz on CD. But many will tell you that those that were originally mastered/recorded at 24 bits/96 khz are warmer sounding. Kinda like getting the analog sound without it's defects (hiss, wow and flutter, etc.). How...

DON'T FORGET THE 'K' FOR KILO Wow, didn't realize there is so much confusion about bits. I may be able to help understand it a little bit being a computer programmer myself. First off, many of you are right. When they talk about 16 bits and 24 bits, they mean 16 bits and 24 bits. Whey they...

DTS CD ENCODER INPUTS One last thing, how many inputs does your DTS CD encoder has? To be a real MULTI-CHANNEL encoder, you need all the inputs to output real discreet channels. I am not familiar with the DTS output as of yet, but friends tell me one gets a better channel separation with...

HELP. I have used Sonic Foundry's ACID for a while now and familiar with their interface and philosophy. I own several graphics program and Adobe Photoshop is one the most cryptic program to work with. I have seen Adobe Premiere in shows and was awed by it's power, but the interface looks...

SONIC FOUNDRY HAS IT You did not specify what kind of equipment you have to do your mixing and I am not familiar with the equipment you have, maybe because the prices of 5.1 encoders/writers/burners are still extremely steep. But, as long as you have at least an 6 bus mixing board or have...

Hi Tim, My intention in moving the hi-hats and the drum is to ensure that the mic is closest to the snare and away from the hi-hats. I couldn't see why having a mic closer to the sound source to get increased input would be a wrong answer. Cardoids response are very much affected by the...

TRY PLAYING WITH EQ Another thing, I don't like to do this because I like everything natural and transparent, but you could play with your EQ and see what you get. Lower your highs...

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Location, location, location You are in luck! A SM57 is one of the better mics to use for the purpose you are using it for. But like in business, there are three things to consider: Location, location, location. Or for our purposes, the way you position your mic has a lot to do with it...

I couldn't remember where I read it, but industry is moving towards the DVD realm and would encode Dolby digital 5.1 with it. That would make all of our equipment obsolete! They claim that this format would be hard to crack and would eventually save the music publishing industry from piracy...

Tascam m-1600 or 2600 are your best bet. They are reasonable and has very flexible routing. Now, if you want/have a need to record all 16 channels at the same time, you need a mixer that has direct outs. Fostex 820's (if you could find them) or the Alesis Studio 32 (for all 16 tracks) would...

I think your problem is like mine. The studio I building is within the city so understandably, the road noise is unavoidable unless you want to record at 2:30 in the morning. Most people confuses sound proofing with sound "deadening". I am building my studio with 5 inch cinder-block walls...

BEHRINGER Autocom has my vote, especially that you are new to compression. It will set the controls for you automatically. If you also need one for micing your drums, get the one with 4 channels of compression/gate from BEHRINGER (multicom). However, if budget is your concern, try DBX Project...

Nay, define decent price. Less that $100? - ZOOM 505 (9 effects at once, noisy, mostly for guitars) less than $200 - QUADVERB, MICROVERB (quiet-good for recording 4/2 effects at once, good sound)...

Before you get plague by maintenance problems of an ADAT, but still want to simultaneously record 8 tracks, check out FOSTEX D-80, D-90, d-108. USED on Ebay & similar sites for $600, more or less.

For the price of NEATO or similar equipment that "sticks" paper lables that bubbles on you, you could have plastic labels and make your CD's look commercial from: http://www.stickerguy.com/ One catch - if you are really a big commercial company or corporation, you won't be able to order...

When you are talking about the latest Digital Multitrackers, they all do record on 24 bits, 48/96khz nowadays. With ADATS, you still have the problem about heads, alignment, number of hours etc. etc. BUT, and that is a big BUT (ha ha), S-VHS tapes are cheaper and a little (not a lot) more...