Hi all!

I am a wannabe music composer. I plan to do all my songs using PC. I plan to get a M-Audio Audiophile 2496 soundcard and a Sennheiser HD280 Pro headphones. Later, I would get a M-Audio Oxygen 8 MIDI controller.

(Btw., please tell me which mic is good for male vocal recording: Shure SM-57? Anything cheaper than that?)

Does anyone know anything about mixing facilities in Cubase LE? Specificaly setting up multiple stereo mixes in the same way some analog desks use groups; ie assigning tracks to stereo channels with compression,eq, etc applied to the stereo group rather than individual tracks as well being able have the unprossessed group in the mix for sidechaining drums etc.

I am about to begin mixing my project in DP 4.5. I run OSX on a PowerMac G4 dual processors that rate at 867 mhz each. My memory currently stands at 768 MB

This is an honest post intended to give people a searchable resource. Most searches on this topic bring up non-gear related arguments on whether or not hip hop is music, or cynical posts that tell people "it doesn't matter what gear you use for hip hop". So this is a post for those who want to talk about gear used successfully in hip hop / electronic music production.

Ehhh. I've got a few friends in this local punk band, and theres this guy, Chris, from the "bigtime" local punk band around here. He says his main goal is to support all of the local music and stuff, so it really gets to me how he's charging my friends to record.

Has anyone heard of this? I think it is a spin-off from the work Telefunken USA are doing resurrecting old superstars of the mic. world. Still, with an RRP of $1,300 in the United States it's hard to believe they can offer the impossible. Maybe this is designed to go up against the Soundelux e250 at a much lower price?

Has anyone tried the new Telefunkens?

I am about to begin mixing my project in DP 4.5. I run OSX on a PowerMac G4 dual processors that rate at 867 mhz each. My memory currently stands at 768 MB DDR.

I'm posting this here because I see this happening here.

I know I'm new and all, but one thing I've noticed already is that as soon as someone asks about rap music, the reply might as well be "Rap isn't music, get a gold plated bucket and some string to record it"

i have not experiance with Sebatron mic preamps but they have been getting some good play. so here is the question; should i build "wall" (4) bricks or one Sebatron 4000e for my personal studio?
right now ive got a Mackie 1604vlz-pro a "brick" a Tascam M35 and a peavey valvex6line mixer.

I'm finally going to step up and get the big purchases out of the way, and I was wondering if you guys can help.

I've decided not to replace my interface at this point.

I use a delta 66 with OMNI breakout with the following config.:

2 XLR/TRS combo jacks with pre's
2 Line Level TRS In's
2 S/PDIF in's