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Are the padding and roll-off switches in the same position?

Just don't buy the cheapest, crappiest CFLs you can find, and you shouldn't have audible hum. Or buy an incandescent bulb or two. If, by CFL, you actually mean old-style fluorescent tube bulbs, I'd recommend a high-speed electronic ballast with a frequency above 30 kHz. If, by hum, you're...

The H4n works well for me. If your environment is really awful, you might consider an over-the-ear headset mic, assuming the people you're recording don't mind it. Because of its proximity, that will probably isolate their sound from background noise better than anything else. Just position...

Or for more fun, you could feed the output of a 9V battery into a TPS84250-based regulator circuit configured for 4.5V output. Or be lazy and use a linear voltage divider.

Could we *please* get the moderators to install the topic age warning mod? https://www.phpbb.com/customise/db/view-install/id_55383 That would go a long way towards solving the problem of new posters reviving decade-old threads. :)

Isochronous FireWire traffic is not affected by other traffic on the bus, so your audio data will always get through. The only question is whether the isoch traffic causes enough of an extra delay in the data going to/from your hard drive to cause a playback stutter. But if your DAW is that...

You can't even buy new laptops with CardBus slots anymore. I assume you meant ExpressCard? :)

Out-of-sync audio is not caused by latency, per se. It is an indication that the latency compensation in either your DAW or your drivers is massively broken. That's a bug.

FWIW, Thunderbolt supports daisy-chaining multiple displays. So in a few years, when everything has a Thunderbolt port, that limitation of pre-TB laptops won't be all that relevant.

Even though it is more expensive than a desktop, those folks can grab the laptop and carry it with them to meetings, so they only need to have one machine instead of two. Besides, the fact that your IT folks bought laptops instead of desktops pretty much proves the point. Desktops might have...

This. Someone could turn a Thunderbolt interface into a FireWire interface with a daughtercard, an internal set of FireWire pins, and two additional holes in the back. I'm surprised it hasn't happened already. Assuming it hasn't....

Most of the good ones handle this by doing the analog to digital conversion in an external breakout box.... :) Perversely, you could also argue the opposite. More and more laptops are shipping with Thunderbolt, and you can add a FireWire port to any of those machines with a $30 adapter. So...

No, they really aren't. There are a lot of processes idling, but they're sitting in a sleep state, waiting to be woken up by the kernel when there is work to be done. That's not correct. In fact, it's exactly backwards. Background processes typically have idle priority, which is the very...

Stalls, stutters, and poor performance can be caused by a lack of RAM. However, actual crashes (where the app quits and the "Send a report to Apple" window appears) are always caused by one of five things: A bug in the application. A bug in the operating system or drivers. Bad RAM. A bad CPU...

I've never seen my computer doing more than about one block read or write per second beyond what a foreground app is explicitly telling it to do. If your DAW is so sensitive to latency that such a negligible amount of activity is going to cause a problem, you're way beyond screwed. If your...

Audio units form a chain. AUNetSend can be one link in that chain. You can route the audio output from your VI to AUNetSend, run some heavyweight effects processing on another machine, and bring the data back with AUNetReceive. If you're trying to run VIs themselves on another machine, the...

USB 3.0 finally got the ability to do DMA, so in theory, it might be possible do design such a beast. Not likely, though. It wouldn't work well enough for high-end purposes, and the low-end gear users mostly switched to USB years ago. Besides, newer high-end gear is moving from FireWire...

The only things you can adapt to FireWire usefully are PCMCIA (the laptop version of PCI), ExpressCard (the laptop version of PCIe), and Thunderbolt (which is basically PCI Express tunneled over an external transport protocol). If your laptop has TB, you can buy an adapter for about $30.

Hard to say. Do you mean for recording a live set or for sound reinforcement? Normally, when recording, the goal for overheads is to provide an image of the entire kit, to the extent that it is possible to do so, with the other mics being used to augment the image to the extent necessary. I...

I'd start by trying AUNetSend/AUNetReceive, which ships as part of the OS, if memory serves.