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You guys are awsome! Thanks for the replies. I'll probably get theQ10 tomorrow. First step: get the hang of using it. Second step: Spend hours and hours transfering old 8track cassettes to the hard drive until I can't take it anymore. Ptron

I'm getting ready to fork out more money than I can really afford on a multi-track soundcard. Probably an Aardvark Q10 w/Cakewalk. From reading other posts here, I gather everybody's mileage varies, but I'm hoping for a few quick guesses as to whether my computer can handle this bad boy...

Thanks! Thats a good site. I searched for something like that but didn't find anything.

How much should I ask for my Tascam 238 8-track cassette recorder? Just the deck. I don't have the remote or any thing.

When your rack and board is spaghettied w/ cables and everybody's sittin around waiting to record and you're trying to set levels and deal w/compressors, eqs, etc. etc., and shit keeps going out and you're pulling you're hair out trying to find the bad patch cable and and then the one you...

So what brand of connectors and cable are easiest to work with when making your own? I try to do a lot of my own amp work so I've soldered quite a bit, but dammit, I just can't get the hang of soldering those regular ol' 1/4 connectors. major pain in the ass. Ptron

Starting a survey here. What cables do you use (patch, insert, mic, etc.)? Why? If uncommon, where do you get them? I've been replacing my Hosa cables because they go shitty on me(have to wiggle the ends) constantly and drive me nuts. So far I've bought a bunch of 3ft and 1ft cables by American...

Thanks again, regebro. I'm going to start a survey over on the other equipment forum on what cables people use, why, and where to get it. Ptron

Thanks regebro, but did you mean there wouldn't be much difference between a 6ft cheap cord and a 20ft good one, or that there wouldn't be much difference between those lengths in comparable quality cable. I'm slowly replacing all my Hosas because I'm @#$%ing sick of something going out and...

I was going to buy a new, high quality Y-cable to mix down from my board to my computer's soundcard. I could reach my computer with a 6-footer from where I normally setup but was thinking of getting a 20-footer so I could wheel my setup into my room. Would this make a big difference? I mean, if...

"Pound for Pound" is an awesome record. So is "Sweet Sixteen" and that EP that I don't remember the name of. When I saw Royal Trux a coupl'a months ago Jennifer Herrema used two mics: one normal and one with a sound like this thread is about. She would hold one stand in each hand and switch back...

I plan on getting a minidisc recorder for recording band practice, live shows, impromptu jams, etc. Do the cheaper ones ($150-$200)have respectable A to D converters in them, at least on the order of a cheapo soundcard? I suppose they can't be total shit, but I'm curious to hear what you folks...

*sigh* I was afraid someone was going to say that. This will be the third time I've had to reinstall everything but the symptoms are always different. I'm scared to try it because last time I had big problems reinstalling stuff. Not to mention it takes forever. I'd never heard that aol could be...

I don't have any programs running that I know about. I'm sure it's not a soundcard problem since the hangups appear in other aspects of operation. I have no network cards or anything like that. I'm at 1840MB of virtual memory. I haven't changed any settings and it used to record fine. It never...

When trying to mix down to Sound Forge, the computer will hang up breifly causing glitches on my recording that sound like a scratched CD. You can hear the hang ups if you listen to the hard drive while recording. eh eh eh eh eh eh eh eh eh eh...eh eh eh eh eh eh eh...eh eh eh, and so on...

I'm not really considering buying one. I'm just curious since I saw Musicians friend was selling them for $99

Yeah, I'm speeding up the tapes. It does help. Makes things sound better for probably a few different reasons.

I'm having a dandy ol' time putting a bunch of old tapes onto my computer. These tapes suffer from muddines, noise, bad mixing, dropouts, and most annoying of all, that obnoxious high end swirling sound, most prevalent on cymbals. Where does that come from anyway? I'm interested in any...

I just saw your reply BigK. Interesting idea. It would probably screw up the overall sound way too much but I'll dink around with it anyway, just for fun.

The two tracks are simply a stereo mixdown of everything. The vocals are pretty much centered. I don't think there is much I can do. I just thought there might be some sneaky tips for reducing how much they stand out. The only thing I could think of was reducing the frequencies that the vocals...