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"i like the compression on 'hellhound' by robert johnson." Got anybody you can name that actually made a record "after" compression invented? "Unfortunately, since 10 years, compression has been used mostly to butcher the sound of FM, clubs, and sadly, CDs, for the sake of playing louder than...

"The big advantage to me of 24 bits is the ability to record without compression by lowering levels without a vast increase of noise. Makes for a natural recording that is useable rather than artificially faked one using compression." Everyone under the sun that's been recording for any...

You might consider a card with 4 inputs like a Delta 66 etc. What I like to do is to record a guide track with a guitar or piano and then if there's vocals, do a lead vocal track which might also be a guide track or sometimes it's the one you might want to go with. Then come the drums. I don't...

Basslord; Right there with ya pal. My only electronics knowledge comes by way of a one-year certificate course in computer maintenance back in the late 80's. We didn't really delve that far into digital theory though because the main function of a computer repair tech was already that of a...

Wayne, You're probably the third person I've seen mentioning this "noise" thing. Frankly I just don't get it. We don't record a lot of tracks and we have a Hoontech card now but we used to use an SB Live all the time (I still do at home) and record maybe 10 or 12 tracks. It's probably the worst...

Originally posted by warlock "Yes, one track recorded with the sb is not too bad, but when you record 24 tracks, the hiss gets really loud on quiet passages. Believe me I tried. I had to use noise reduction to get usable quality. How? Myself and the rest of the known recording universe used to...

Also empty your Windows Temp folder before recording and after every hour or so of recording. A full Temp folder will do excatly what you're talking about. And I agree with whoever said that the computer was best for mixing on but not for tracking. I've always regretted it. Just one problem...

Nice sound darkman. It's a shame so many people don't mess around with one long enough to really get the hang of what they can do. And then, you have to work like mad to get one to sound like anything on a single coil pickup guitar. If they'd use a Les Paul to begin with they'd be much happier.

Tex, I think what you may be referring to is called the Sustainiac. It's pretty cool too. I don't think the sound is as nice as an ebow but it's more flexable in that you can play chords and whatnot. One thing that's neat is that you can play harmonics clean and make them sustain forever. They...

Sorry I bailed out on this thread for a while but, so many threads, so little time.... I listened to the tunes Warlord and Track Rat had. I thought that they all sounded fine sonically. Now, one interesting thing though, I had forgotten which tune T R said was recorded on the SB at 16 and which...

"So what do you get when you add 0.0001% distortion 25 times? Still not very much distortion! And compared to the amount of distortion in every loudspeaker ever made, 16-bit digital's distortion is several orders of magnitude (factors of 10) lower." I had a similar discussion with a real nice...

"I think it's funny how recording engineers, etc will spend loads and loads of money on equipment to give them the best possible sound quality for recording...only to have the end result be played in a cheapo car or home stereo." Actually I've even heard Roger Nichols admit once that the...

I've got a few 30-second samples I did for some Flash files. Nothing terribly fancy but you can see what an ebow sounds like. http://swoopie.com/ebow_3.mp3 http://swoopie.com/ebow_5.mp3 http://swoopie.com/ebow_1.mp3 I've been messing with one for 20 years or so and really like it. It's tough...

Does anyone know enough about CDRW's to make a recommendation on what's a good, inexpensive one for burning music files to? From what I understand there are certain manufacturers who gear their CDRW's for music by burning a deeper grove. My old Acer 4X4 is like most CDRW's in that it was made...

Just one quick comment. I think SoundBlaster suffers from something that a lot of manufacturers do in that they started out with a product that wasn't very good. Then when they got a good product people were already biased against them and figured they would never produce anything worthwhile...

Awe schucks. :o

But they're not mp3's, they're wave files.

Hee, hee! I just knneeewwwwww somebody was going to say that! :p

Even an SB Live has a signal to noise ratio of around 93db at 16/48. Man I'm sorry but the difference between 93 and 100 in the SNR department is so infinitesimal as to be nothing. I mean sure you could hear that tiny bit of hiss if you really crank the volume but good grief man! How gay would a...

Just so you don't think I'm totally lame if you surf over to my Flash design site (not that I'm expecting you to but I'm trying to save face here :))you'll see a music page there with a dozen or so samples. This is the only one that's out of time. http://swoopie.com You can also see the Flash...