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have a look over at gearslutz. You will probably be more likely to find the DBX 903's and the Aphex expressors over there:) There are also quite a few people from Down Under over there and may get lucky and find some of what you are looking for on your continent and save some money on...

Thats funny. I do like the Avalon in certain settings, and for some things it adds a nice smoothness that can be hard to find in any other units, but uncolored is about the last thing I would use to describe it. In fact, I can't think of many preamps out there of decent quality that are more...

???????? Have you used a 737 ? Personally, the 737 is definately not my favorite channel strip or preamp or cxompressor, but I do like the EQ. There are occasions though where the 737 really fits the bill, it just seems overpriced and inconsistent. As far as colouration though, I would...

Does the mx9000 have tape inputs?

This is probably caused by bad gain staging. Especially with already distorted guitars its really easy to miss the fact that you might be driving your front end too hard. If you were using a limiter and it was actually limiting then you were probably driving your preamps way too hot at the...

I always let the musicians set their own levels and tones based on how they feel they should be. At FOH I decide whether or not I am getting a good enough siganl from them to properly mix the show. If I have to make minor changes that is OK. If I have to get pretty severe with a channel then...

First off, I would import your mix to a stereo interleaved file at the same settings you are mixing them at, but do not have Cubase import them to a new file within the project. Take the new stereo file you have made and load it into a new Cubase project with NO plugins. Does it still sound...

Micing smaller toms from the bottom can be a really nice thing. Smaller toms seem to project to the overheads better than larger toms, but having a bottom mic can really help with adding some "beef" back to them in the mixdown phase. Of course part of this depends on what style of music is...

Weasel, it seems that you wre correct as well. I had not thought of the possibility of the preamp being onboard the Layla. I don't recall if it has preamps or not. If it does, I would confirm through the manufacturer that the line out on the layla can be sent from the preamp stage and has not...

Actually, you would run your preamp into the converter and from the converter you would go digitally through s/pdif or whatever digital configuration your Layla uses to the layla digital inputs and not from the Layla line outs. You will set your Layla to slave its clock form the 2 channel...

The bottom line as far as I am concerned, is the compression should be used for tone and timbre shaping on the way in and not for dynamics control. If you are using it to guard against a clip then you are only covering up a problem and not addressing the source of the problem. Proper gain...

How about looking for an old blackface Fender Bassman? You can control just how dirty or clean it is to a certain extent if you put the right combination of tubes in it. You can also affect that with setting your bias a little differently. As long as you are going to have a pedal in front of...

I have not specifically used the Hosa patchbay, but my experiences with Hosa cables have been pretty bad. I have had plenty of Hosa cables go bad over the years. I have even had some go bad that were only patched once and were just sitting there bridging equipment. Personally, I would be...

The first thing I would try is not sending signal from the Roland's headphone amp to the external headphone amp. Try using a line level output. Start with maybe the main left and right outputs. By using the headphone output of the Roland you are sending an already amplified signal to a line...

Montiors are a very personal thing. Some swear by brand X, and some by brand Y. Personally, Genelecs sound good to listen to, but I have never cared for having to mix on them. On the other hand, the larger (more expensive) ones seem to be a little more useful and enjoyable for me, but the...

Like mentioned above, overpowering is much better than underpowering. You far less likely to blow a driver by overpowering by 50% than underpowering by 50%. That being said, the 4b is certainly more amp than you need for a pair of NS-10's, but I know plenty of people who use 4B's for them. I...

The tape speed trick is a cool old trick to get more impact with less tracks. It is important though to remember that the tape speed needs to only be changed while you are tracking that part. Generally, this is easy to remember since with tape, you can't just change the speed of one track. If...

I am not sure if Cubase will let you compress through the software before the signal is actually recorded or not. However, unless you have an outboard compressor I can not see any possible reason why you would wnat to do this. In order for Cubase to compress the signal on the way in it seems...

It certainly seems that the hard drive may be causing this, but something else seems odd to me as well that would point to the Headphone amp actually being the problem, and maybe not the hard drive. If the hard drive noise is being sent from the Roland, then the headphones should exhibit the...

So who exactly is paying for the recording? From the original posters statements I am not so sure the label is actually forking anything over. I know that I would not put any money out unless I knew how it was going to be spent. In the end however, no matter who is paying for it you have to...