When I first saw this video I thought for sure that it was faked- pre-recorded and then just videotaped as if it were live. But upon a closer look it seems to be real. What do you think:

Hi there,

Just bought brand new acoustic panels. These are 60cm x 120cm with rigid panel of polyurethane foam 40kg/m3 as the absorvent material. They are covered with good breathable fabric at both front and back sides. Images attached.

I'm trying to record an XLR mic and laptop audio simultaneously on a Marantz PMD 661. I am connecting the laptop's headphone jack with the LINE IN2 of the Marantz with a mini-to-mini cable. I have only been able to record the XLR mic but no laptop.

Does anyone have any advice if this is generally possible? And if so, what are the settings to make this configuration possible?

This song was mixed with headphones only. I will try again with near-fields soon.
[MEDIA=soundcloud]devon-vonmonster/damned-if-i-do-dont-mix-1[/MEDIA]

Can you believe this, they say the youth, their audience wants more variety so they are chopping the songs to a minute thirty to fit the beat of their spin. Is radio turning into a night club DJ with ads? They use a third party chopper to trim the songs. The artist still gets paid (counted) but you are pro rated lol!

Had another shot at this, feels like Im getting close now and have not had a comp crash(y)
Lead vocals may be too loud, what do you think, should the vocals sit more in the mix?
Also the brush sound to my ear maybe a bit harsh ?

H! I'm thinking of upgrading some hardware. Those of you who have monster DAW PCs, tell us what the specs are.

Mine is currently:
Win7 Ult 64-bit
Gigabyte GA-MA series mobo,
8gig RAM
AMD Opteron quad oc'd @ 3.8GHZ
1.5 TB storage spread across 3 drives
Onboard video
Firewire interface for audio.

hello people,
Recently my Shure srh940 broke and I've started to look up some new headphones to mix and master with in my home studio.
I've decided to go with the AKG k702 but I saw that a lot of people said they need a good amplifier with them to really use them to they're full potential.

I got my RODE NT-1 today. I opened up the box, read the manual and properly set it up (meaning that I connected an XLR cable to my Alesis io4 interface into GarageBand on a MacBook). It didn't seem to work so I cranked the gain to 11. The signal was barely detected.

I then tried the same setup with a different interface and had the same result.

I'm watching CNN and wondering why we all can't live and let live. What a mad world. How does it all keep going day to day.

:(