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"elsewhere"; as in a different web site all together!

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Okay, so I’m being forced to upgrade. My computer is the most stable I’ve ever used, and I’m afraid that changing the OS will mess it all up, but no one makes software for Win98 anymore. So I want to get some opinions on Win2000 and XP. Mostly, which one is more stable.

I would suggest going with a generic computer. That way you’re not dealing with a bunch of programs you don’t need. It’s also easier to upgrade generic computers. If you must go with name brand, I would suggest Dell. The company has grown a lot since I last looked at them, but three years ago...

What I’ve always done (when making CD’s for myself) is to open up the first two songs in Wavelab, listen two the last 10 seconds of the first song followd by the first few seconds of the second song. Then I close the first song, open the third, and repeat the steps with the second and third etc...

Stay away from fans. Convection cooling is the way to go. For 1000 dollars you shouldn’t have any trouble finding a good amp (depending on the RMS average of your monitors). I got a Hafler P3000 for half that. Granted, Haflers are cheaper than most good amps, bit it sounds gooood. Also, I...

I guess I was talking about bit depth then (I didn't realize there was a differnce). Would bit depth be affected by pitch bending?

I know that pitch bending correlates directly with sample rate, but does it affect bit rate at all? Sounds do tend to register louder in the VU meters when I bend up 12 semitones.

My understanding is that all amps should do the same thing; amplify the audio without altering the sound or introducing noise. I don’t see why it would be different between mastering and mixing. The Important thing is to make sure that the amp has a higher RMS average than the monitors. Give...

I'm trying to get information on the KP2. I read a user review of the original Kaoss Pad, which talked about an auto-sampling feature that aloud the user to spontaneously slowdown, rewind, or "stutter" the music. None of the product reviews I've read of the original Kaoss or the KP2 have talked...

What do you mean "mult inputs"? I'm not familliar with the term.

I’ve looked into the CM Labs PM216 and Sound Sculpture's Switchblade GL. The price is right for the PM216 but it doesn’t have the ability to merge inputs (what were they thinking?). I think they must have left this out just so they could sell it cheaper. The Switchblade has everything I would...

Why doesn’t Cakewalk just send the data to a wav file? What is the soundcard actually doing that Cakewalk can’t do by it self? Actually, the only exports I’ve tried have been with the same computer and sound card. The only difference may have been what I was playing from. I listened to the...

So how does that work? It just seems to me that several tracks each playing in 48 khz files would have to sound better than the same tracks squashed into one 48 khz file. Wouldn’t they all be fighting for the same samples? I’m using a digi96/8 pro. I’m keeping every thing 24 bit the whole way...

I do most of my music with a digital sampler (ASR-10 to be specific), but I’ve been experimenting with recording all the tracks separately and mixing them in my computer. I’ve been recording from the sampler's analogue outputs (the ASR-10 has both analogue and digital outputs), but I recently...

Well… perhaps I don’t have a full grasp of this stuff (I most certainly don’t) but I figure it like this: I’ve got 11 tracks of audio each recorded at 48 khz. Which is the same as 48000 samples per second (or something like that). When exporting from Cakewalk, the samples from the tracks must...

My PC is still running Win98 so I’m not able to upgrade from CWHS 2002, which can only export at 48 khz. I do have a lap top that’s running XP though. So I was thinking I would get HS 2004 or Sonar for it (which I will eventually move to my PC when I upgrade). That way I can load the files into...

Ok, so waves makes a Q10. They also make a Q1, Q2, Q3 etc. Why would some one use the Q1 instead of the Q10? I figure if you only need to boost or cut one frequency, just boost or cut it with the Q10. What I’m I missing?

Not necessarily. I use a lot of samples, for instance, that are sometimes already “seriously fucked up”. So I don’t have any control over the sound until the mix down stage anyway. But there are other uses too. I recorded a baseline the other day that sounded perfect all the way through, except...

I’d like to hear what your favorite EQ plugin is for mixing, and why. I’ve been using TC native EQ, but it has some quirks I can’t stand.