Happy New Year RO. I hope it's been a good holiday for the community.

I'm looking into purchasing a pair of MDC or LDC as an addition to my mic locker and thought I'd throw it out to everyone for some opinions and comments.

Hi,
I downloaded a Waves plugin package I'm thinking of getting. I didn't realize that they had anything available that didn't cost an arm and 2 legs. Someone else had an old post about Waves plugins for $9. That got me looking at their website.

Okay, so one of my mic cables hasn't worked for a while. I simply don't get a signal from it.

I bought and downloaded the upgrade to Windows 8 but have yet to install it. I have it on my laptop and so far so good. Even without a touch monitor. I'm a little leery of installing it on my DAW though. Anyone taken the plunge yet?

First off, I'm very grateful to have found recording.org. I'm not going to blast any other forums, I'm just glad I found this one. Though I've performed a lot on stage as a spoken word artist with whatever mics they had (sm58s common?), I'm fairly new to recording and definitely a n00b as an engineer. So..the question at hand..

Here is my current/imminent setup:

Ableton Live Suite 9 looks like one of the best DAWs going now. I should really take the time to get to know it more. Share you comments on 9 here?

https://www.ableton.com/en/live/new-in-9/

Bitwig | Bitwig Studio

Looks interesting. Maybe along the lines of https://www.ableton… Ableton Live[/]="https://www.ableton… Ableton Live[/], Fruity Loops.
Once its released please share your comments.

Question- Does the volume of individual frequencies cause clipping at the master bus or does a song clip because of the summed volume across the frequency spectrum?

Just getting into home recording so let me know what you think. Here is my cover of Andy McKee's Drifting.

Can anyone recommend any good recording books ?

Thanks !