This may interest some of you:

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NEW YORK (AP) _ Michael Jackson, considered to be among the best-compensated artists in the recording business, has become the latest star to call for "justice" in the way music labels treat their artists.

The "Jitter Bug" (1.2.3...er 4 maybe?):

http:// charges $80 to put a PC together and test it:

So these are the two options in my price range I have been investigating. I was hoping for some seasoned DAW advice before I made any purchases. A little background as to what finds me at this juncture: I am getting into production for local advertisements,(radio mostly)and need to get vocals into logic platinum over some midi sequences.

hi I have pulsar II card and LAG 4.8.1 when i try to record audio through pulsar to logic, I cannot get enough record gain @ LAG. wat can i do to increase record level? my manual said logic has no controll but hardwear has controll of increasing or decreasin recording level.

Give the 'You are the voice' quiz download a go -on Neumann's website - and be honest ! :roll:

Hi Steve, Bill, RM, and all passers-by!

Maybe you can help me with this one. So far in my lifetime I've managed to carefully avoid participation in clock comparison tests, mostly out of fear that my badly abused ears wouldn't be to hear any difference anyway.

When manually installing the us-428 why are the new 3.09 xp drivers (came in the zip file) not recognized as xp? It gives me the box that says the drivers are not tested and approved for xp...

Universal Audio has just released their latest upgrade to their Powered pluginsthat run on the UAD-1 DSP card, version 2.2. This version includes the long awaited Pultec EQ! (Yeah!)

I haven't tried it, I just downloaded it...I'll let you know how it goes (and sounds!).