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LOL I'm not worried about how it looks. Besides, no one sees this room except me and my roommate. He offered to go in on the mic with me so I ordered it Monday. Monitors are next. Eventually. I could not have bought the Spark this soon if he wasn't pitching in.

Oh, I didn't even notice your location earlier! Are you in one of the music programs? I used to work in Green Hills and many of my employees were music students at Belmont. There are some really great programs here.

I got out of school a long time ago. :) I'm doing this on my own, with the help of the internet and any of my friends that will let me grill them for information occasionally.

Thanks for your reply. I've been doing a lot of thinking over the last couple of days, and you've reinforced a lot of what went through my mind about this. And I have been reading, but I have so many areas that need work it's hard to maintain focus. When my brain starts to hurt, I back away and...

Glad to find a fairly recent thread on the Spark because I'm considering trying to make it my next mic purchase. My question for those of you who have a Spark: what is your experience with the included shockmount? Some of the reviews I've read have stated that it's not adequate for the weight...

I haven't used the Lambda, but I've used the Omega and I've got an Alpha right now. With the Omega, I had similar sync issues. Are you using the Lexicon ASIO driver? What DAW are you using? My problems happened back when I was using Bremmers' MTS and the problem was a bitrate mismatch between...

Yes, I'm asking what is probably an overasked noob question. I need suggestions for a smallish pair of monitors that an amateur hack like myself can attempt to put to good use. The room: untreated at the moment, 10' x 12' and it's also my bedroom. :o Not optimal, but budget issues aside, it's...

There are so many laptop threads, I just have to ask at least one person - is there a reason why it has to be a laptop and not a desktop system? I'm really curious about this.

If you really must do this on a laptop, I would recommend first factoring in the support option included in those prices, and then leaving yourself enough headroom in the budget to add a big, fast external hard drive, a good cooling pad (that laptop's probably gonna heat up pretty quick), a...

Another vote for Reaper.

I just bought two XLR cables. Not very exciting, but extremely vital. :D

Yay! I'm so glad it's working for you! I do agree with the others about Reaper - it's a great DAW. But keep Audacity too, because you can use it as an external .wav editor. Reaper has a learning curve, but it's very well documented and there are great video tutorials for it online that can get...

It's not the optimum option, but it's been done before and I'd at least try it and see if you can get a good clean signal that way before going out and buying an interface. Edited to add: On one of my laptops, I can do this and get great results. On another, I can't. The best solution...

Sounds like you've got a L/R RCA > 1/8 cable. Windows laptop? First check your Windows sound settings and make sure you don't have any mic boost settings turned on. Also drop down the mic level. Turn of any goofy extra options that might be there. (Without knowing your sound driver, that's as...

Go download the Presonus drivers at w w w.presonus.c o m/technical-support/downloads/drivers-software/ (sorry, not enough posts to post a link properly yet) and install according to the directions. Hopefully, that's all it will take to get things going and the device should then be selectable...

Yeah, I'm still getting used to the "a track is a track unless it's whatever you want it to be" concept. Very flexible, but I've had several "wait, I can do that?!?" moments. I started using folders a few days ago and now I can't stop organizing my tracks. I don't keep my busses with the tracks...

Get trial versions of anything you can. Videos are great but it's not the same as getting your hands on something. You can try them on whatever computer you've got now - even if it's not speedy, you can at least find out how the DAW "feels" to you, whether or not it's compatible with any plugins...

Thank you for the welcome and advice! :) I'll definitely check out those book recs. When I give my ears a rest for a bit I'll go back and look at what I tracked Sunday, do some adjustments with fresh ears. I'll track down WhiteStrat and by then I should have enough posts to post in the Clinic...

New here, sort of. I lurked for a while before joining and now I'm finally posting. I'm not new to music, and I'm not really new to recording, but I'm new to doing a proper job of things. :D I've got a decent little budget-friendly setup going now, as much as I can afford. I think most of my...

Ditto here - I just recently had a rather painful discussion (argument is too strong a word) about my lack of a THRU port. I was in the awkward position of knowing I was basically correct but not having the terminology to prove it. :) But I'm learning. The discussion ended when I said "if I...