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I have a pair of older Tannoys and I'll vouch for their balanced sound and quality. They drop off below about 60 hz, so you'll need to keep that in mind, but that may be different in the newer versions. As a side note, I blew a tweeter in one of them (bad case of "Can I hear that solo...

This thread is looking alot like the countless others about which media is better, tape, digital, 16 bit, 24 bit, etc... Personally, I can not hear the difference between a file that has been recorded origionally at 24/96 and converted to 16/44.1, and a file that has been recorded origionally...

I think the problem is a simple misconfiguration. I think what is happening is that you are playing music in Cool Edit wich comes out of the computer and into the mixer. Your microphone is plugged into the mixers preamp. The two signals get mixed together, go out of the mixer into your...

Without getting too technical, the basis for the MP3 format uses something call perceptual modeling. Basically, it knows the frequency response of the human ear and EQ's the signal to match it. Then it compresses the file (not audio compression) based on what information isn't absolutly...

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I'm not sure about your unit, but I have a Boss VF-1 that's a half rack unit. Boss sells an adapter plate that lets you mount it in a standard rack. If you can't find one for your particular unit, you can either make one yourself, or get a cheap rack mount (1U) shelf and strap, bolt, velcro...

I strongly recommend getting another drive. It can be any size, although a 30 gig would be more than sufficient. You need to keep the operating system away from your audio files. If you don't you'll be negating the advantages of the RAID array. The idea is to be able to write audio to one...

Stealthtechs got it right, and so do you. The DI (aka direct box) is usually used for getting a signal (guitar etc...) into a mixing board or computer soundcard. The Madudio preamps are good. Definately up to par for your project. If you have a sound card (USB or otherwise) that has XLR...

Determining the partition depends on a couple of things. 1. Do you have another drive (besides the 2 in the RAID array) that you will be using for your operating system? 2. Are the 2 drives in your RAID array the same size? 3. Are you looking for the best audio performance, or will the...

What signals are you trying to splt? Line level or speaker level. If it's line level signals (before it gets to a power amp) then that mixer will work. If it's speaker level signals (after the power amp), then you'll need something like this...

TRS stands for Tip Ring Sleeve. It looks like your average 1/4" instument plug, but it has 3 conductors instead of 2. The signal it carries is a balanced one like an XLR (microphone) cable. You can plug a standard 1/4" cable into it from whatever source you want and it will work, although the...

What are the specs on your laptop? There's plenty of people using laptops for recording in the field. If you're only recording MIDI, it shouldnt be any problem at all. What operating system are you using, and have you tried all of the tweaks available to increase performance?

Just another 2 cents... Forget about the PX-R4. You don't need the recording ability if you are setting up a DAW. Don't expect to be able to record on that and then transfer it to the Mac. I've found its converters to be wanting and its effects very noisy. If you want to get around the...

I've used Fruity Loops. Since it's a really just a very pretty looking MIDI sequencer, its drums are only as good as its samples. Keeping that in mind, it does have the ability to record velocity data, wich is essential to get real(ish) sounding drums. I've tried a bunch of software drums...

I suppose it really depends on what you want to do. The setup you describe will work, but there's a bunch more ways to do it. The only problem I see is that you usually want the cleanest path while tracking. If you're running the signal through something (your Tascam for example), you're...

Fenix, what's the effect on the vocal track of Long Life? Besides the doubling, is there a slight chorus on it? Maybe it's reverb. Whatever it is, it's very subtle. Nice mixes, very balanced. Top notch work. When it first started playing, I thought I heard some compressor pumping, then...

When you are using a computer to record, you need some way to get that audio into the computer. The interface is simply another name for a sound card used for recording. Usually they have multiple inputs and outputs, but sometimes they just have stereo in and stereo out. The mixer (desk) is...

Not really. MIDI-OX is a MIDI utility program. Not really a sequencer. I will let you record MIDI data but a real sequencer does much more than that. In a sequencer, you have the option to cut and paste parts, quantize you music (that means that the program automatically lines up the notes...

I just took a little visit to the sytrillium website and lookked it the features of your version of Cool Edit. It offers MIDI playback support and MIDI trigger support. The playback support means you can play MIDI files with it but you can't record MIDI with it. The MIDI trigger support is...

I agree. As far as better or worse...music and sound in general is way to subjective of a topic to brand anything one way or the other. All of the decisions on analog vs. digital, cardioid vs. omni, 16 bit vs. 24 bit, are determined by many factors. There are a few absolutes, take 1/4 inch...