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I recently acquired a Mackie ProFX mixer which has a footswitch jack. Per the manual, you can use it to turn the internal effects on or off. However, I'm unsure what type of footswitch would work with it. Any input appreciated.

Though it works well for instruments, I've never liked the tone of the preamp on my Focusrite Scarlett for vocals. If I got a different outboard mic pre, would plugging it into one of the line inputs bypass the onboard pre?

I've been sequencing drums & keys within ProTools for a decade now, and no matter what I do to lower sampling rates, there is always a little more lag than I'm comfortable with. In the absence of 8 grand or more for a badass clock, I'm wondering if outboarding the sequencing and sound module...

Good info y'all, many thanks. David, I'm as far west as you can go and still technically be in Fort Worth. Off White Settlement Road near the county line. It's a fine music town these days, believe it or not.

Dang. Tough crowd.

I've slowly come to the admission that the preamps on my faithful old Digi 002 Rack are failing on me. Given that the computer I'm running it on is still on XP and ProTools 6.4 LE, I figure it's time for an upgrade. I got a new Dell running Windows 8, and will likely get the newest ProTools...

Can't get Avid on the phone, so I'm asking here... Since 2005, I've been running ProTools LE 6.4 with a Digi 002 Rack on my Windows XP box. XP is probably going to stop updating at some point in the near future, so I'll likely be updating to Windows 7. I get that PT LE 6.4 probably won't run on...

Aye, indeed. ;) I've got good reverb plugins for my recording rig, but Ustream & SL take up all the memory, so I can't really run ProTools on top of it. I just need something cheap & decent to give a bit of roominess to the audio.

I've been doing a lot of online shows on Second Life & Ustream, and thus far have been doing them dry. But I heard someone using a touch of Alesis Microverb the other day, and it added enough depth that I'd like to try it. However, used Microverbs (and Midiverbs) appear to be selling for at...

Checked headphones, cables, & different outputs, those are fine. Good idea about using a different audio source, though. I'll check that out tonight.

Per my earlier post, I went ahead and bought a used replacement for my Hafler TA1100 power amp. Got the new one in the mail today, plugged it in, same distortion. Is it possible that both of my speakers (Event 20/20s) have been blown simultaneously? I don't recall an audio incident large enough...

Found one on eBay for $50, decided that'd be the least painful solution. But since I'll have an operational amp, I'll have the liberty to poke around in the old one and see if I can get it working. If so, it never hurts to have a backup. Thanks for your advice. :)

I've been mixing with a Hafler TA1100 ever since I got the recommendation on this board 10 years ago. It's been a real trooper, but now I'm getting weak signal and distortion on both channels. Do you have any idea how much it would cost to fix it? Trying to weigh that vs. buying a new one. I saw...

The PC is four years old, so it's quite possible that some new problems are coming from the hardware. I do use a separate hard drive for the audio, but it's as old as the rest of the computer. Got a newer computer from a friend recently, may go ahead and put it into service before this one...

I've been using ProTools LE 6.4 since 2005 through a Digi 002 Rack onto my Windows XP machine, and this is the first time I've had the problem detailed below: When I have a song up with more than maybe 5 tracks on it, there is a high-pitched whine. I don't notice it so much during playback, but...

The NT1 I bought new in 2000 doesn't have a pad switch. I'm not sure which ones do & don't, but I've seen them in a variety of flavors.

Harvey, thanks a million for that link. Gonna play around with it myself...

Agreed. Move the mic back. 3 feet is good, as per above.

Indeed. My first band in high school gave the local guitar shop 10 copies of our debut cassette in 1993, and 9 copies were handed gleefully back to me upon visiting 10 years later...

Did exactly this recently and got great results.