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I just borrowed a friend's Radio Shack "female HiZ 1/4" to male LowZ XLR" adapter. This thing does not do anything useful. I tried with two professional microphones one cheap crappy microphone, an XLR F to XLR M cable, and XLR F to 1/4" cable without a Radio Shack adapter, and then that...

What exactly are those 10 1/4" outputs for? Once on the computer should it not stay on the computer till final stereo mixdown? Do any of you actually use all of those outputs simultaneously?

I have never recorded a piano, but something that I've heard on CD and that is easy to try is: With the lid up, use two good mics in B-ear config (90 degrees apart to simulate a human head with ears) about 40 cm infront of the pianist head. result a recording similar to what the piano player...

To Jnorman. Your making a classical CD? you already have the equipment. Find a nice room with natural reverb (bathroom) use your mics and mixer and record straight to your DAT. You will get excellent results. Don't use the 4-track cassette. With the right software, any additional EQ of...

Type II tapes are CrO2 tapes. Same thing. I recommend TDK-SA60 Excellent tapes. Audilbly better than Sony HiFiII tapes (46 min). Maxell XLII-60 are very good too. Radio Shack or some local electronic store will have re-usable foam cleaners on long wood sticks, and the appropriate alcohol...

The company is called "Midiman" right? Any experiences with the DmanPCI card? 18bit AD/DA , 90dB S/N, 64 voice wavetable What do you guys do? do you have a MIDI /gaming card and then a second Audio recording card? Also does having L-R 1/4" or RCA inputs really make an audible difference...

In the next few months, my brother wil buy a new computer. He is not a musician and is leaning towards a SB Live! card. (full one). I just did some experiments with good headphones and our 4 year old SB16 card sounds pretty good. Save for the occasional electronic "swooshing" sound. I have...

Not can you make adio CDs from a CD-RW drive but the Mb/$ value of a CD-RW is unbeatable. In Canadian $ A blank 680 mb CDRW disk = $4 A blank 100 mb ZIP = $15 An internal E-ide CDRW = $180 An internal Zip = $100 The cost of the blank media quickly make the CDRW the...

Where I am, the VS880Ex is about twice the price of the MD8. If you have the money.... An external effects box can be very easily used with the MD8 using the two send/receive effects loop. that plus the in-line effects possibilities (before you record), and the MD8 will be fine. That extra...

Also make sure that the stand alone Phillips CDR can be read by a normal CD player so you can make your dubs without the Phillips CDR. Also don't compress again. You have already done that. No more, espaecially for a CD. You might have been better off not compressing to the Hi8 either...

The stand alone Phillips is ideal for what you are trying to do. Better than a computer CDR because the A-D converters are better on the Phillips than the ones on all home computers. I am glad you chose to mix down to Hi 8 audio video tape. (analogue Hi8 right). I am a big fan of mixing to...

I am not sure of what you are asking for either, but if your intrumental backup is on cassette then a great quality double cassette deck with two Mic 1/4" ins on front should do. Put your backup tape in the Play deck Put your balnk target tape in the REC/PLAY deck. Plug in your 1/4" mic on the...

Do not forget to consider Apple G3 towers. excellent audio/video workstations. Image rendering unsurpased in Wintel land, and easier to adapt to a professional level.

Get the desired EQs and Timbres, BEFORE the sound is captured by the microphone.

On the 424mkII and III, there is a "Line out" switch over the monitor volume knob. There are 3 settings for this line out switch. L-R Mono Off switch it to Mono.

Study the "signal paths" of your machine. Play the game of "follow the signal" there are many volume controls involved aren't there? The volume control on the deck itself for headphones, which may also be connected to the volume control for the decks line outs, and the volume control of the...

things to know about your cassette deck is it able to use chrome cassettes or does it only use normal bias tapes? DAT line out to cassette line in. right? Make sure you are not saturating the cassette. type I peaks at +1, type II peaks at +3. No more. And preferable not much less for...

Are you sure about that? *.wav is a Windows TM file format. Apple has AIFF. Regular CDs have their own audio CD format. Burning CD's of *.wav files will be nice to play on your computer and do some editing, but I do not think a regular CD player will play it. Will it? Check in your program...

One way is to use a 4 track cassette machine. Get your band set up around 4 mics 90 degrees apart, and record. Go with the individual tape outs (424mkII and III feature) to two stereo amps and playback to 4 speakers. (two pairs of L-R, one pair infront, and another behind) All the panning...

The reason most people at this site use Windows machines is that this is "Homerecording.com" Our computers are office/gaming machines that we try to convert to audio machines. Most of the pros use Macintosh. About soundcard choices. How many souncards do you need? There are so many choices...