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thank you all for the help. if i get a decent job soon... here is my immediate list of purchases...

KM1 Pair
The Brick (maybe 2) or the M-audio DMP3 (budget and availability)
Seagull guitar

Bu ...

I'm sorry if I offend by saying what I believe is true..

i didn't say i was offended, i said that i was discouraged. Not discouraged by your opinions on preamps but by the lack of open minded discu ...

i know a lot of the big music store gear rental places here in toronto tend to stock more live gear than studio gear...

you may want to check websites of studios in your area as some of them will r ...

Arthur,

If you can't afford to make these sorts of purchases based on your recording income why not rent gear on a project by project basis?

Then you would only be laying out money when money w ...

duardo... you can answer for me anytime.

kurt,

i feel that i have made my frame of reference fairly clear. i am an amatuer recordist who has only used budget preamps. i am not trying to appear ...

i find it difficult to post my opinion on this topic since in the past it has lead to an exhausting exchange of posts similar to the few already exchanged here.

a performance that i do not have th ...

You can get great sounds using Guitar Rig. It compares favourably to other emulators and compares favourably to real amps with mics. I wouldn't say the same for my Pod.

cheers,
Greg

i have found the RNP by FMR audio to be signifigantly better than the Presonus Blue tube, M-audio Duo and the single channel Joe Meek VQsomething (which are the only preamps i have had the opportunity ...

I would say take the mix as far as you can take it but if there is money there to hire someone with more experience/ more skills why would you NOT use it?

I would hire the best mixer i could afford ...

i may have missed your timeline (the weekend) with this but i'll go ahead anyway.

as has been mentioned, getting a pre with digital out adds cost to that pre and, more importantly, severely limits ...

hello,

can anyone recommend a good collection of piano samples for use with a soft sampler (logic exs24 or kontakt).

The genre of music, for lack of a better description, is moody/experimental ...

i suppose that is true... the less things you push around, the less things degrade and since i'm already pushin' the track faders around i should try to limit myself to just doing that.

cheers!

thanks for the respone Kurt!

Certainly my instinct is that i should be taming my tracks better to keep the master at unity... which i will likely start doing as a general practice... however i gues ...

Howdy all,

So, i'm sitting down to mix a song 'in the box'. I start setting levels and generally find that i'm pushing the levels until the loudest track is just below the point of distorting with ...

Chance, what exactllly do you meen by hot-rodding the mc012's?

Scott Dorsey did an article in Recording Magazine a while ago that described how to replace certain components in an octava mc012 in o ...