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And if you're burning non-audio stuff, you might find it advantageous to dump the stuff to burn onto the audio HDD first instead of straight off the main HDD (assuming you're using Ola's configuration) - gaffa

As far as RAM goes, the more the merrier. 128Mb will probably tide you over in the short term, but realistically, you probably want to try and get > 256Mb if you can. This will save the machine having to use the swap file, which is slow, and given that audio files are large, it doesn't take too...

If you are running NT or 2000, then you can rearrange the partition letters to your hearts content using the Disk Administrator tool. It's usually found under Administrative Tools in NT, and under Administrative Tools -> Computer Management (Look at the Disk Management option). - gaffa

Well, I can answer one of the questions - Phantom power is a +48v supply that is used to power condenser mics. Generally, the power for this comes from the mixer or the preamp, although you can get standalone supply units. The power is sent to the mic using the cold and common lines of a...

Burning, writing and recording all refer to the same thing - the process of putting data onto the CD. They are interchangeable terms in this context. The "burning" term is based off the factthat a CD-writer uses a laser (of a higher power than is required for reading the disc) to re-align the...

Both the minidisc and the CD store the data digitally, but the minidisc uses a form of compression to squeeze the same amount of data onto a smaller capacity disk. In terms of data size, I think the MD holds about 70Mb/disk (I seem to have heard that somewhere, but I could be wrong). The MD...

There are obviously advantage in each option. The digi001 is a "turnkey" type deal - take it out of the box and off you go, but having a mixer hooked into a computer does allow for a certain amount of flexibility when your recording. An all in one like the digi is certainly nice to start with...

One limitation of the ProTools free is that it will only do eight tracks at a time. Obviously, you can get round this with partial mixdowns, but perhaps the $40 for n-Track may be a better investment. Certainly it is a good product, with good user support (both here and on the n-track site), and...

There is a second utility called chkdsk.exe that sometimes finds issues that scandisk doesn't. Another option for you to try is getting norton disk doctor (or whatever it is called nowadays), and running that over your system. But i've got to concur with the others and say that it sounds like a...

dobro, Had a similar problem a while ago - a freshly burnt disk (Kodak), no writing, burner in good nick etc. and the bloody thing had all manner of static on it. I stuffed around for a while trying a few different things, burnt two more static disks (they sort of got more and more static...

The MFT (master file table) might be ratshit, so you may need to low level format before going to far. If it a new machine, it's entirely possible that the drive hasn't been initialised. fdisk, while it works OK, is a dog to use. To low level format, you've got two options - some BIOSes support...

Stop drooling, ola - gaffa Oh yeah, ME is crap, 98 is bearable, but if you can, run with 2000

You need to install 95 and 98 onto a FAT or FAT32 partition, not onto an NTFS, Linux or HPFS partition. If you've got a copy, use partition magic to change the file system to FAT, and the install should work. - gaffa

There's also a free tab generation program called RandyTab which is quite reasonable. It's not top of the line, but it is free, which is nice. - gaffa

It depends what you wnat - some codecs are quick, others produce decent quality at low bit rates, others aim for a small file, and there are a few that produce very high quality files. The Fraunhofer codec is one of hte better ones (although there are a number of variants of this codec, so you...

It's a bit dodgy, but once you have changed the resolution (the slider control thing), the OK button is 5 tabs away (ie: hit the TAB key five times, then hit OK). Try and find a picture of the creen in a manual od something. It's just a lot easier to load Windows in Safe Mode and change it that...

You can also get a free version of ProTools, whioch I think will handle 8 tracks. N-track is good, as well as being very cheap. - gaffa

You can find out what's loading them by either looking in the StartUp folder in your profile, or in the registry under HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run That key contains all the items that are started when Windows boots. The other way is to termiante the...

It might be a dumb question, but are the headphones OK? Do both channels work in playback (through either the line or speaker outs) on the headphones? - gaffa

Yeah, you've just gotta suck like a hoover..... Got to agree with you Eddie - I spend far more time in the Cave than anywhere else. - gaffa