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aviv, you mention the price of the 8pre in pounds, so I assume you are in the UK. There are all sorts of factors that come into play, including currency exchange rates and any additional taxes or surcharges your country might be putting on imports. If you follow the news, you know that there...

Yeah, they sound pretty fake. Part of the issue is that they are the melody instrument and are very exposed in a light arrangement. If they were buried behind a busier arrangement or under an actual acoustic lead instrument or vocal, they would sound better. But I do think you should look for...

That's great you sorted it out. You did it correctly too, which a lot of people don't. i.e. you isolated different parts of your system to determine where the problem was. The only thing I want to say is in regard to your comment about "good thick cable". The thickness of the cable really has...

You said it all right there, nailed it. Do you see a huge transformer in any of these cheap tube units? No, of course not. The sound you are talking about has as much or more to do with the transformer than the tubes. Great gear costs money. It cost money in the old days and it costs money now...

That cable looks fine to me, it's the right type anyway. I'm not sure if a cable that cheap will hold up to a lot of abuse, but if you are just installing it and then leaving it alone you should be fine.

Wow, I like that MonoPrice.com site. Those priced are ridiculous. Thanks for the link!

This is a really good point. I use Mackie HR824's along with KRK V4's. Very happy with that combination, and it is important to have at least a couple different sets of monitors to check mixes on.

Again, it would depend in part on what cassette deck he is using. The good cassette decks do sound good. I still wouldn't put them above a good modern digital recording though, that's a pretty big statement he made there.

It's just marketing hype, I don't find any reason to get too irritated over it. You'll find similar stuff coming from virtually any manufacturer of almost any type of product. The "class A" thing is definitely open to debate, and a lot of companies are calling their gear class A based on a kind...

Sometimes the advice a person needs to hear is not the advice they are asking for. So the suggestion to save up more money for a better set of monitors is very legitimate in my opinion. Since that person has already gone through the upgrade phenomenon himself, the advice offered is based on...

I agree that cassette would not be the ideal format for that "analog tape sound". And even if you did do it, you'd need to buy a seriously good cassette machine. Just a plain old cassette machine wouldn't be very good for the job. Nakamichi cassette machines used to be fairly standard items in...

That's an awkward way of running synths though. Better to have all the synths running into adjacent channels on the same mixer. You can still easily make them mono by muting or panning, and you can effect one side or the other. But what you've got now is convoluted and not very practical. That...

You are doubling the signal somewhere along the signal path. It's really kind of hard to troubleshoot that without being there. Plus, I don't know those Alesis mixers. Can you send signal from the computer *to* the Alesis mixer, or just from the mixer to the computer? Is it possible that when...

If your are mastering an album then yes, the mastering should be done in the context of the entire work. But artists release singles too, so in those cases it makes sense to master a song individually. As far as the secrets thing, there are some mastering engineers that are very generous with...

Aaaah, it's been a long time since we a good old fashioned flame war around here. :D

You say the tracks are recorded very quiet in GarageBand, but the preamps are making the tracks peak and also are creating feedback. This doesn't sound to me like something you need different preamps to solve. If the tracks are peaking, that means the signal is too hot, not too quiet. If there...

Man, I wish we could still give negative REP around here, there's a couple people just begging for it. The thing about attracting listeners based on who mixed or mastered the album: only people in the industry care about that. And they don't buy albums in numbers--you can't make a living...

Who cares if Rodney Mills is in your credits? I never heard of him until this thread. Nobody, and I mean *nobody* is going to listen to your CD because of who mastered it. His past credits should primarily be of interest to you to determine whether he is familiar with your style of music...

I've had good luck with the lower end Tascam and Presonus interfaces. Take a look at the Tascam US-144 (USB), or the Presonus Firebox or their new USB interface. I haven't used the Presonus USB interface yet, but I was happy with the Firebox.

That Rodney Mills guy is going to cost a lot more than $150. His rate is $15 per minute of music, so JohnnyAppleseed's 28 minute album is going to cost $420. I find it hard to believe there are any legit mastering engineers that will master an album for $150. And I'm not sure you'd want to have...