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barefoot, Your comments re: protection are understood but I don't wanna pop these things even if someone else using them does something stupid. What about just fuses? If I put a 3 amp fuse in the path, what sort of sound problems might I have?

Cool. All of a sudden, I "got" slot-resonators :) I've read that description about a billion times, but now I think I could actually build some and expect them to be useful. COOL! BTW, John, any word on when your site will be up in its new home?

Hey, John - not gone yet I see. What do you mean by resilant channel? One of those wavy /\/\/\/\/\/ things? basically an air gap? I didn't even think of the roof being concrete....

Cool. I'll email Yorkville see what they think. Thanks very much for the help!

Well, my understanding is that the best thing is mass, mass and more mass :) That gets a bit tricky when it is over your head, but still is what helps. Is the ceiling currently finished? If not, you can insulate between the joists then have a double layer of sound board, which certainly...

To answer one of my own questions, there is a site http://xsspl.tripod.com/Audio/Voltage.htm which will calculate the voltage given two of Watts, Amps and Ohms. Since I have 70 Watts, 6 Ohms, it is telling me I should be looking for 20.494 Volts Does that sound right? Thanks very much for...

Ok, so let me see if I understand. I run pink noise to the amp and adjust it until I get the right voltage coming out of the amp. I then join the speaker to the amp using the a light bulb, trying different light bulbs until I get one that starts to glow orangish after 1-2 seconds. Ok...

http://www.trueaudio.com/st_prot1.htm has some information on choosing the right fuse... now I just need to know where to put it :)

Cool. So, if I want to do it right, I'd put it across the hot (black) wire, right?

While I am semi-competent at soldering and so forth, I completely forget all the math involved... if my speakers are rated at 70W per channel, what kinda fuse to I put inline? I would assume I would want a fast-blowing type, right?

Cool. That is similar to my setup (except I've only got 4 in/4 out analog (delta 66)) and gives me some ideas on how and whether to incorporate a patchbay into my setup. I definitely think I'm going to have to now... more money and time to spend but not yet - gotta get going with what I have first

Alright. So this is going to be a freestanding structure? I guess a few principles in order. First, stopping sound requires mass. Airgaps also help. That is why you generally do a "room within a room" format if you can afford it and use double layers of soundboard and rockwool. The inside...

Well, I'm just (so far) trying with the LIVE mode and I can't hear the delay... smallest ASIO buffer. I'll be trying some real recording, etc, tonight so I'll letcha now whether that is any different.

Cool. Thats what the Yorkville dude told me. Nice to know he wasn't just blowing smoke. I'm just paranoid about popping my monitors accidentally (YSM-1s are 70W, the CR-5 amp I have is 250 W per channel) Is there some way to put a limiter in there? Does that defeat the purpose/screw up...

I think there is a lesson in Skippy's last post - always run MORE of everything then you expect to need. That is true in my dayjob (I'm an IT guy and have done data network drops) and it is here. If you think you'll always need two mic inputs somewhere, drop 4. If you think you'll need 4...

Well, lets start with some details from you, k? There are an awful lot of informed people here, but the more details you give (diagrams, pictures all help) the better you will be helped... To start with : * How much room do you have? * What are your requirements? Ie, are you looking for a...

For OS, seriously consider Win2000 if the soundcard manufacturer (and other components) have RECENT drivers for it. For instance, the Delta series has kickass Win2000 drivers that hugely increased the stability and decreased my latency significantly vs win98 That was using n-track, but should...

barefoot, does that mean that using an overpowered amp is a good idea? (provided, of course, you don't slide the faders all the way up :) )

Skippy - thanks very much for this. You rock.

Oh my GOD! An intelligent post! Someone frame it! (sorry guys.... just one of those days... no offense to anyone in particular... just when I started reading the post I was expecting crap and didn't get it... at least, I don't think I did - sorta made sense to me)