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Depends on the type of piano (grand vs. upright), whether this is for recording or sound reinforcement purposes, whether you're trying to get an up-close sound like you might use in a rock mix or a more traditional sound for classical recordings (with the mic often placed a fair distance away in...

For what? Vocals? Probably the MXL, if I were guessing, but it's just a guess. It's the only LDC out of the three.

Instrument inputs are very high impedance—usually close to a megohm, which is about a factor of 20–100 higher than you'd typically use for a high impedance microphone. It will work, but it isn't ideal. That said, a high impedance microphone generally isn't ideal, so I'd just use that input...

If it weren't for the horrible import prices, I'd suggest a CAD M179. But if my quick Google search is any indication, for what those things cost from dealers in India, it would be cheaper to order an M9 (which is a great vocal mic, IMO) from Amazon and pay the shipping and import duties to...

To put things in perspective, your CPU is about the same speed as the CPU in my iPhone 5. Any computer with any current-generation Intel CPU is going to be anywhere from 5-20x as fast as your current machine. Hope that helps.

You mean Apple's Thunderbolt monitor? Yeah, there's that. However, Apple also makes a Thunderbolt-FW800 adapter for about $30. I would expect a device attached to such an adapter to perform nearly identically to a FireWire device attached to the internal port. My advice would be to try it...

I've been working in operating systems for more than a decade, and have done a fair amount of block-storage driver development in that time. You must have misread what I said. I never suggested that an application did anything of the sort. An application writes data to a file. The operating...

Higher than the overhead of a well-written FireWire audio interface driver that uses DCL programs to offload most of the heavy lifting? You bet. Higher than the overhead of a PCI audio interface driver? Maybe, leaning towards yes. Higher than the overhead of a poorly written FireWire audio...

No, in the words of Chevy Chase, that's "Nanananananananana".

Read http://record.apogeedigital.com/how-tos/how-to-prevent-clicks-pops-and-distortion-in-your-audio-recordings/ and then do the opposite.

The LaCie Quadra drive has a desktop HD built in. It is not bus-powered. I mean, I suppose there's an outside chance that they designed it wrong and there's no voltage supply powering the FireWire PHY in the drive enclosure if you don't plug in a 6-pin cable, but I'd be pretty surprised if...

Video is actually relatively easy. It's a single compressed stream running at roughly a fixed data rate, usually measured in double-digit megabits per second, or single-digit megabytes per second, usually from a single, nearly-contiguous file. Compared to that, audio work is serious abuse...

eSATA will pretty much always spank USB 3.0, both in throughput and latency. Even if you ignore the fact that eSATA has a 20% faster theoretical maximum bandwidth, there's too much overhead in the USB protocol, and the silicon has to do way too much work. For that matter, as long as the...

Ah. Now that I look at it again, yeah, that makes sense. The first time I looked at it, I incorrectly assumed that the center pin on the transformer was grounded. :)

Actually, you can hear a 1.75 millisecond difference in latency if you're singing through it and using software-based monitoring. Don't get me wrong, you're not hearing the delay itself so much as the difference in phase cancellation caused by it interacting with the direct sound at a different...

Actually, even if your buffer sizes are the same, that's not necessarily true. Using a USB 1.x interface adds (if my math is correct) a minimum of 1750 microseconds (almost 2 milliseconds) of additional latency (compared with FireWire) just because of the much larger packet size. USB 2.x...

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I'd expect it to all be fine. This stuff isn't particularly fragile, with the possible exception of ribbon mics.

I'm pretty sure. My perception was that the pitch continued to get higher, anyway. The 16 kHz flyback frequency on TVs always drove me nuts until everything went LCD. To be fair, my speakers only claim response up to 20 kHz, so keeping the input to my ears constant almost certainly requires...

Are the ribbons actually torn or do they just need to be retensioned?