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The only experience I have with a DI box is with an ancient Hot Dot box that I only used for live performances back in the 70s. I was never crazy about it but I guess that a lot of progress has been made since then. Maybe someone else with recent experience will read this and answer your...

LemonTree, I listened to the MP3s on your site before I bought the Tampa and I liked your music. "Penny" is a very artful song and the way the acoustic guitar sounded in it influenced my decision to buy the Tampa. 75% or what I record with it will be acoustic nylon string guitar with the other...

A lot of people on the forum don't like Beri gear but my only experience with it is for monitor routing. Mine has been fine for that and I don't feel that it colors the monitor output much if at all. It's not in my recording signal path and works fine for routing. If you don't like Beri, Yamaha...

Sebastiano, I use an MXL 603 to mic my nylon string guitar, a Shure PE56D to mic my Roland Jazz Chorus guitar amp or trumpet and plug my bass directly into the Tampa - then straight into the analog inputs of my M-Audio 2496 and into Cubase. I've also just purchased a TC M300 effects processor...

Reshpi1 What's the maximum heat exposure time for musicians in that studio?

Sebastiano, I just received my Tampa and like it. It works fine through the SPDIF but I haven't figured out how to set up my soundcard software/mixer to hear it and the tracks coming from Cubase that I want to play with. The analog output sounds fine so I'm not sure that using SPDIF gains a...

I'm no expert but I do have experience with raid array. Mine was fast as lightning but, when Windows crashed, all those files spread across two 80 gig drives became vaporware - non-retrievable even by the whiz who built my computer. Two projects in progress lost with only rough mixes on cds left...

Thanks for the replys. Looking at pics of everyone's rack gear, it looked like most of it was mounted with minimum clearance. With a lot of electronic gear, heat is a killer but I don't plan to have more than two or three pieces in my rack.

I'm planning to build a desktop short rack cabinet for one preamp, reverb and power strip. How much space should I leave between my rack units for adequate cooling. I notice that my Tampa has cooling gills on the top of the cabinet so I'm guessing that that quite a bit of heat wants out.

Sorry, I should have said digital OUT from the Tampa to the SPDIF in of the card. Am I correct in thinking that this will use the Tampa converter, bypass the converter in my card and provide a 24 bit signal straight to Cubase? Having one less analog audio cable trying to be an antenna for...

Digital in verses analog in seems like the cleanest signal path with less chance for noise or signal degradation, providing the converter in the Tampa is as good or better than the one in the soundcard. My current gear is all analog output so I was hoping for an opinion from someone who uses the...

I'm looking at getting an M-Audio Tampa. Is the SPDIF in and out appreciably better than using the analog in on my 2496 card? I'm assuming that the converters would be pretty similar since M-Audio made both units. All the positive comments about the Tampa have me about convinced but I'd like to...

I've had two different systems plus a MXL 603 mic and haven't found what I want yet. My current B-band system uses an internal condenser mic with the saddle pickup and will feed back like a bandit if I try to compete with our pianist in volume. It's sound is pretty much lost in the mix when...

Thanks to one and all for your replies. Looks like it it's unanimous - DMP3.

Thanks for all the input. The only things that swayed me toward the Firebox were the latency and driver issues with the 2496. Truthfully, that's never been a large problem. The only other question I have is whether there are any issues with plugging the balanced outputs of the DMP3 directly...

I want to update my preamps. I record nylon string guitar with MXL 603s (90% and DI bass 10%). Considering that I'm more guitar player than engineer, would I be happier with the Firebox, DMP3 preamp into my current M-Audio 2496 or with an up-scale preamp like the Eureka?

What do you use to re-glue loose fretboard bindings?

If you're in your twenties now and play rock without plugs, you'll be hearing your drummer's sizzle cymbals 24/7 when your 57, just like me. Do yourself a huge favor and wear 'em.

Which do you prefer for nylon string guitars, L. R. Baggs or Fishman pickups and which model?

Is the interface, windows, etc the same in SE as in the demo version of SX? I bought a book a while back with the demo version on its cd and liked it but don't want to have to relearn the things the demo taught me if it's different from SE. A recent crash took down my computer and, since I'm...