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A preamp is any device used to boost the very weak signals produced by such things as microphones, guitar pickups, turntable cartridges, etc. to a level that most electronic devices can deal with, called line level. Every mic I know of needs one to be useful. Inputs on a mixer or computer...

Yeah, that's what I found. And that's what I did. And it sounds like shit! Somewhere in the process, Whether in the bit depth conversion or the sample rate conversion, I end up with a chirp-y cricket-y sound in the mix. It sounds exactly like speaker voice coil rub. At first I thought that's...

Never mind. I just found the info on cakewalks site. That's sure a roundabout way of doing that. Ptron

...do you reduce a project recorded at 96 khz to 44.1 in Sonar?

Well, I reluctantly abandoned the whole RAID thing and she runs like a champ now. It should be fast enough to get me by until I dive into SATA somewhere down the road. I wonder where the fault was. I'm curious, my board's chipsets are Pentium but the RAID chip/driver is VIA, has anyone heard of...

O.k. what the hell am I doing wrong here. I just upgraded my athlon Tbird 1.4g cpu and Iwill mobo to a 2.4g P4 and ASUS P4P800 Deluxe. I wiped my 2 Western Digital 40G hard drives and installed them Raid 0. I split the raid array into a 20 gig logical drive and a 60 gig one. I installed windows...

This is a cool link. It's got some Intel/AMD benchmarks that you can skip to via the section links at the bottom of the page. http://www6.tomshardware.com/motherboard/20030414/ Ptron

I hope this wasn't too dumb a question! Anyway, someone at work told me that the discrepency between the 400mHz and the 800mHz buss speed doesn't mean a whole lot because the AMD stuff "does more" per cycle. I also found this link. Some of it is above my head but it certainly helped...

Oh, and what, if anything might it have to do with latency? Oops! it's actually 133 Mhz Ptron

How important is buss speed in regard to performance, esp. in terms of plug-in FX? I'm going to upgrade my processor and mobo in very short order. They're a little shy of being able to handle as many plug-in FX as I want to use, at least for 24/96 stuff. I'm kind of sneaking in another AMD vs...

So with all the talk about RAID 0 and 1, Mb of Hard Drive cache, etc., and the difference they make, I take it the speed of the disk(at least with a 7200rpm drive) isn't currently the bottleneck in how fast information can be written to a drive, as long as it has a lot of consecutive open...

I can't speak for everything but it does for me. I use Sonar with an ASIO driver. If I double the sample rate, it halves the latency, all other things being equal. I don't think that analogy quite works, Teacher, but since I don't have a better one, maybe I should just shut up:) Ptron

Neither do I, whatever that is. Um...what? Seriously though, thanks for the link. I will read the parts of the paper that aren't in Martian and see what it has to say. Ptron

xxkHz vs xxkHz So when is somebody going to do a true scientific study on this? (or somthing close to it at least) I won't believe either way on this until I see the results of one. Human perception is HIGHLY suggestable. If you played two recordings for someone that were exactly the same but...

I wish there was some sort of "cost/benefit analisys" for each of the tweaks. I like some of the XP fluff and I'm sure some of these things only make a miniscule difference. Ptron

Great book. I've read it several times over the years. Unfortunately, for those of us into the technical details, it doesn't go there much. It's more about what was recorded when rather than mics, mic placement, processing, etc. I'd kill for that book. Another good book is "Beatles Gear". It...

Wow. I've used it for 3-4 years and never had even the slightest problem with it (with the exception of just recently but everything on my computer had problems). Same goes for my bandmate. I wonder why such drastic difference in our experiences. Ptron

Uh...oh yeah:o already got so used to the Aardvark Q10 with the built in pre's I plum forgot about that part! Ptron

If you're only recording two mikes @ a time, you only need two inputs on the soundcard and any ol' card has a stereo in however those mics are phantom powered and you would need a phantom power supply or a mixer w/ phantom power. Then you would need some combonation of adapters/cords that would...

It seemed like a good idea at the time. Actually, that's the whole problem. I can't because XP thinks the second drive is "raw"/unformatted/neither NTFS or Fat32. Anyway, the thread on the computer forum finally took off a bit and the "mismatched" file system theory has been pretty much ruled...