My son is thinking of buying a combined digital I/O and A/D device so he can do some serious home recording with an iMac. One product he likes has a memory card interface identical to those that are used with digital cameras. The product is made to be used with Powerbooks that have built-in card readers, and the actual output is a card on the end of a cable.

Does anybody's got experience of Timpanis Micing? What are the best Mics for it and Mic positions?

This question is for the more experienced mastering engineers:

With regard to boosting/cutting EQ while mastering a tune, do have a general rule you go by as to how much is accpetable versus labeling the tune as "in need of remix"? Obviously, if you need to boost or cut a freq. by 6db there is a problem. But do you try to stick within a certain range, say +/- 1 or 2db or what?

Hello.

I am putting together a new system and am considering this. What are the plusses/minuses over other systemS? How does everyone like the digi software? Soundcard? Just fishing for more information so I make a wise decision. Thanks! RandyG :cool:

My band is ready to hand off our self-produced CD for mastering. Several of us have done recording projects before, but they've all been provided to mastering on DAT; this time around, the whole record has been done (and kept) in 24-bit on a PC DAW.

Anyone know what the actual difference is between the MDR and SDR models of HD recorders? The SDR isn't even on the Mackie website yet, but some stores are apparently selling it at the same price as the MDR (approx. $2000).

Thanks.

Is this worth the $999 purchase guys. I'm no pro, but want to know if my signal chain would greatly improve or is the Roland's 24bit converter suffucient. U87,VS1880, Avalon 737 mic preamp?

I know that I have probably missed some good discussion on this already, and I don't mean
disrespect by posting a completely new topic for this. However, what are the feelings about
Win98/2000/XP. I am running an athlon 900Mhz DAW with an Echo Layla/Mia on 98 (software
sonic foundry vegas/sound forge). As far as I know the WDM drivers for this setup are

Gee guys! I havent been in here in a few I feel like a complete stranger! lol