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Question for anyone who has or knows about the Mac Mini. How do I connect an audio device or instrument to it? I had thought there was an 1/8" input jack but apparently I got it confused with the iMac. Do I have to get some kind of USB conversion cable? Where can I find one? I feel like a...

Anyone know of some good sites for posting ads looking for band members? My band is looking for a keyboardist-guitarist-singer cuz the one we have is leaving. I found a couple sites that I've posted on already but if anyone knows of some good ones I'd appreciate hearing about them. Thanks...

On most CD-Rs, if there's a "precautions" section on the box or jewel case it will say "Do not attach labels to either side of the disc." It's obvious why not to attach it to the record side, but why does it matter on the other side? How can a label hurt it? And if labels can hurt CD-Rs, why...

Hi. I'm looking for a decent waveform editor for PC that can Normalize. On the Mac I've used Sound Designer and Peak but I don't know of good ones for PC. The main feature I'm looking for is normalizing. Anyone got any recomendations? --Cactus--

Kind of a survey here. What are y'all's opinions on concept albums? What are your favorites? By concept album I simply mean a whole album that has a unified theme or story. I love these things (the ones I've come across, anyways). Some of my favorites are: "Scenes From A Memory" -- Dream...

I've been trying to open up a midi file of mine in Pro Audio 9. The file was: 1) originally created in Digital Performer on a Mac 2) saved as a Standard Midi file with GM instruments only 3) imported into Finale98 and saved on the Mac 4) opened and saved in a Finale2000 file on my PC 5)...

I'm curious what y'all do to get in the mood to write a song. I'm kind of an odd duck among my friends who write songs. They have such an easy time about it. I only seem to be able to write songs when I'm feeling strong emotions. When I write a song with a certain emotion attached to it, I...

Paging Zeppelin Fans, Anybody know what kind of organ John Paul Jones used in "Thank You" from Zeppelin 2? I'd like to find that patch on a keyboard but I'm not sure what to look for. Thanks Cactus

Has anyone here ever done a live concert video? My brother has an annual party at his house with a bunch of bands and I've been in charge of making a video of the thing. This was my setup this year: Canon XL1 Digital Camera hooked via SVHS cable to an SVHS tape deck. The audio was coming from...

Just a little curious how it works with everyone else. Do you write the lyrics first and then the music or do you write the music and then come up with lyrics? I absolutely have to do the lyrics first. It always bums me out when I come up with a cool lick on guitar or keyboard cuz I know...

Anyone ever recorded into computer from a DAT machine? I'm trying to record something from a DAT tape into my mac. I've got the sound card set to SPDIF (sp?) so the digital signal is going directly into the computer without any routing through my mixing board. My problem is in monitoring the...

I saw Radiohead on Saturday Night Live about a month ago and the keyboardist was playing some crazy contraption. It had the look of a small organ or old analog synth. I'm not sure if it had keys or not. It looked like the guy had his finger in some thing that had a wire coming out of each...

I could use some help. I play a Fender Strat. I've noticed that when I'm on my neck pickup I sometimes hear little "pops" come through my amp. It's not my amp because it does it on my friends amp too and it doesn't happen on the other pickups. I've determined that it is static electricity...

I'm trying to set up a working studio on my PC. I have a Hewlett Packard pavillion with a Pentium 3 and 128mb of Ram. I am running Windows ME for my operating system and Pro Tools Free for my Sequencer. I have a Yamaha PSR-530 keyboard plugged into the standard soundcard that came with the...