Hey Chris,

The recent Dolby tone question brought up something. How many here can and have fully aligned a 24 or 16 track machine before their sessions, Dolby 361, SR, dbx ? Yea I know it’s not that big a deal for old guys like me. :(

I was pleased as a pig in poop that our home studio area had a big (8' ceiling, 10'L 6'W) walk in closet I could record VOCALS in. Clothes on one side, rug, and the rest bare walls. Was going to put some 701 board fiberglass up on the walls and ceiling- basically make it dead. Thought that was OK.

I'm looking for the easiest ways to make 1 or 2-track field recordings, from outdoor sounds to a quick set-up for the occassional jam. I've been looking at the Tascam 564 (perfect, except for the early version of ATRAC compression and no phantom power, and I don't necessarily need all 4 ins, or the editing abilities), and that got me thinking about using one of the little player/recorders.

Yeah, now that you've all helped me so much to decide what Mic to buy, I realized that I really need a decent mic preamp to compliment the Soundelux U99 (I don't think I can wait for the Lawson for 3 months to get assembled). Any Idea's?

I have been attentively reading the posts on building a recording computer. Very impressive! To complete my plan to build a new one I need to ask a few questions that I havn't seen answers to...

Can someone just give me a brand and model for a quiet ATA harddrive and power supply?

Mixerman's testamony aside, I did my own HD test.

Otari MTR-90lll @15ips w/SR w/23 audio tracks.
HD 88.2 w/23 audio tracks.
HD 192 w/23 audio tracks.

The analog chain sounded best.
88.2 was good but sounded a little choked.
192 good with better detail and depth.

Which pluginswould give my mic a warmer sound for vocals?

Here's one I can share to start the ball rolling, it's how I get a separate 'normal drums' mix AND a 'compressed drum mix' - in Pro Tools, I imagine it would translate to any DAW software

Tip:

Use "duplicate track' on the drums and the aux bus they are routed too.

can anyone tell me what kind of plugin -count (Wavesgold) to expect whith a new G4-933 compared to my G4-500?
or should i go for the G4-1Ghz dual?