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I think you'll have to look at used gear. Basic Peavey powered mixer / head and speakers will probably do the job fine for starters. Look for old boat anchor units - craigslist, local guitar stores, tag sales, pawn shops. If you make the rounds of venues to find out who plays locally, track...

Looks pretty sweet. You used aluminum U-channel for the edges? The MX882 will work, but don't expect much from the preamps. There's not much available in single rack units until you're in the mid price ranges. Look at Mackie Onyx 400F or the Studio Projects SP-828. I'd suggest, though, that...

No problem! I'd not worry about the little mixer - use what you have. When you get enough hours under your belt, something about its sound will irritate you and that will be the time to upgrade. TS connectors carry an unbalanced signal, so your monitors could pick up some interference. Just...

Until you get your feet a bit wetter, think about the Behringer B-Control unit. No talkback, but you can control Logic with a Master and seven faders. It's about $ 180. You can do a lot with this unit before upgrading to a more expensive control unit. You can also link them, and link one with a...

Let's back up a little bit. What do you need to do that your setup cannot accomplish? Tell us the - kind of music - number of musicians or tracks recording at once - MIDI, direct record or microphone use - how much of each? - Same room or separate rooms? - are you recording live drums...

MF is not bad; I've had good results with their cloth covered mic cables. ProCo is excellent but can be a bit pricey. I'd not waste any money on boutique crap though; its a bit like BOSE: "Better Music Through Marketing". Speakerrepair is an ebay vendor who has sent me consistently solid...

Spend some tiime in the newbies forum and use the search function for any term you have questions about. Your question is too broad for any of us to give you a useful answer. In the meantime, you could benefit from buying some of the basic home recording publications that spell out the concepts...

PZM rules for this. You might need only five or six.

My instinct tells me to use a pair of small condensers in a 135 degree ORTF arrangement, mounted on one boom in center front, mics level with last row (if on risers) and 18" forward of the first row. Large diaphragms might work fine, but I'd want more than one if the choir isn't wrapped around...

I also use a Passport PD250 plus and it does what it does very well. But it is not in the same league as my Mackie based system (SRM450s, Peavey wedge monitors, Crown monitor amp, Mackie Onyx 1640, outboard compressors / limiters, outboard main and monitor EQ, outboard Lexicon effects). Mostly...

I doubt you'll find anything in the same bracket as the SRM450 that sounds better. Some prefer the JBL sound - it's a little different I guess, but not better to my ears. If your experience with the Mackies has you looking for something 'better" then probably there is a weak link in your...

I'm about 2 1/2 feet away from a 1/2" OTARI deck loaded with Ampex 456. I still use digital because most of my stuff is recorded in the field. I'm hoping to learn the OTARI well enough to use it during mixdown though.

Words to live by...:D

Still the AKAI DPS16. I do almost all of my recording in the field - live stuff. The Deeps can handle 8 tracks simultaneously and has the best preamps I've heard yet, apart from boutique stuff. The other I/O I use is a Mackie Onyx 1640 with a firewire card. I can dump that into a laptop, but...

Heh heh... Been there. It sucks. Setting up a system and tearing it down, load in and load out, for a single gig is crazy. But I do it all the time because I love this stuff. But it would be a good thing for people to understand a little better what is involved. For me, a single gig involves...

I just took delivery of an OnStage hex stand boom; next one up. Pretty rugged. I've had decent luck with OnStage stuff - there's a bit of a price break and the stands are a little lighter than some others, but they take a beating and are easy to fix when they do break. I've got about 18 or so at...

You're getting hung up on the wrong thing - you've been using a non-digital input so your settings are all internal to the computer. If you start with a bad signal, changing the sample rate will give you an approximation of a bad signal. It will still sound like hell. There isn't really any...

Sure! As long as you can get tone without cranking that mother to 6 or 7. If you can't, stick to the stadiums. The attitude comes out because soundmen hear so many really, really poor guitarists who think that as long as they crank it up, they've actually done something. That's where my...

Gotta be careful moving tube amps - the more they move, the more likelihood that a tube will get compromised. Let 'em cool down so you can touch the tubes before moving. Other than that - bring 'em! I love tube amps. "Tube" pedals and such - no thanks. There's not much a tube getting 9, 12 or...

True. The worst thing for a sound man to have to overcome is an undisciplined band who tries to play to the crowd from the stage. What happens is simple: 1. The guitarist keeps cranking it up. It's about the guitar. 2. The drummer is so loud his sound has to be shut right off and still he...