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My advice would have been to record one track the way you did as a scratch track, then track each instrument/singer separately with that person's track disabled during playback. This allows the performer to feel like he or she is performing with the band, but gives you a nice, clean set of...

Actually, it's largely caused by the brain-damaged, too-flat, too-narrow hardware interrupt architecture that Intel designed way back in the 1970s that they just wallpapered over with IRQ sharing instead of fixing it correctly. Some computer manufacturers do a halfway sane job of choosing which...

Well, if you really want a vocal track to be stereo, you would need two, but unless you're recording in a concert hall and you're trying to capture the natural reverb, normally vocals are tracked close-up in mono and panned to center within the stereo mix rather than wasting a second track on...

I would not expect a thin film of metal oxide to significantly change the flexibility of the diaphragm, which is ultimately the key factor as far as sound quality goes. Perhaps more importantly, if the diaphragm is made of a material that oxidizes, it's just going to start oxidizing again as...

So this connector or the two-pin or three-pin version of it, maybe?

Listening to it on my laptop speakers, it sounds a little boomy, which probably means you're using a cardioid mic and it is too close to the sound source. Either back off a few feet or roll off the low end/midrange a little. Alternatively, find a pair of omni mics and put them a lot closer...

A few pieces of ultra-high-end TB gear are either on the market or coming out soon. It'll probably trickle down into the ordinary high end in a few years. :D

IRQ Settings, how to view IRQ assignments and resolve IRQ conflicts Windows 7 and IRQ's - Gearslutz.com

What's sharing an IRQ with your FireWire card?

If your levels are perfectly set, then yes, your digital noise floor is going to be lower than your analog noise floor. It also requires multiple concurrent miracles to get a recording in which the levels are perfectly set. Because digital recording does not deal with clipping very well, you...

My guess is that it is probably caused by a buffer overrun/underrun. Fix any IRQ conflicts, ensure sane values in the PCI latency timers, suspend any problematic TSRs, disable Wi-Fi, and see if the problem goes away. In particular, make sure your FireWire card isn't sharing an IRQ with any...

Whoever told you to record in 16-bit mode was wrong. That's a good way to kill your signal-to-noise ratio.

First, buy a SATA to parallel ATA bridge. Now you have a very primitive address bus. Buy a parallel PCI FireWire card. Wire the IDE_CS0 pin on the ATA side to the IDSEL signal, wire the data bus lines across, wire the IRQR ATA line to the INTA line on the PCI side, then wire the lower few...

There's two different things here. Latency refers to the round trip delay. It should be single-digit or low double-digit milliseconds (not seconds—yikes!), and the only time it really should matter significantly is if you have bleed from your headphones getting picked up by the mic. A 10...

Strangely enough, because a FIREPOD is a FireWire AVC device, there's a very narrow possibility that it might work with a FireWire-USB adapter if the adapter is designed generically enough. That said, I'd expect the latency to blow goats, and the reliability to be utter garbage. :D

Well, although you don't *have* to have a sound card, it's generally a good idea. You probably don't want system beeps going out through your monitor speakers at top volume.

The OS crashes? As in a kernel panic? Could you post the panic log? Should be in /Library/Logs/PanicReporter on 10.5. Also, make sure you're running the most recent 10.5 software update.

Naiant omni pair for acoustic work. Oktava MK-012 for lots of SDC stuff. CAD M9 for many vocals (male particularly). And I wouldn't grab an SM57 or SM58 unless I needed a hammer.

I've used some of AKG's super/hypercardioid dynamics, and I get the impression that they're all pretty similar. They're decent tom mics with a little EQ. I wouldn't pick them for vocals.

Just wait 'til you hear about Thunderbolt. :)