*Here's a repost of something I asked about on *PCDAW, and got a couple of replies to. I have *since checked (again) DMA and some other things, *and all the settings seem to be fine:

I have heard different amps drive one brand of speaker. There ofcourse was a difference in sound with each amp. Is it fair to judge a speaker with only one amp? This leads me to another question; if your monitoring situation isn't working for you why assume its the speaker and not the amp? Ofcourse I'm talking about passive speakers.

Input or Output.

Ive got a Sharp MT15. It has a mic in with plugin power 3v?

Would buying a battery module for my stereo electret condenser microphone so I can use it in my quieter line in give me less noise than Transfering audio via D/A A/D on a consumer sound card (sound blaster live 5.1)?
Of course there will be generation loss.

Has anyone hired an engineer to do the recording and mixing on their projects? If so, how much is the going rates. I could imagine the tweeking he or she would probably go through since they're working in a foreign environment. Is this something some of us are considering or have done so far? Is this becoming part of the norm? Anyone have any opinions or feedback? :confused:

I'm runnin an old dual 450 (512 ram) on OS X.2 . with a digi 002 rack. i love it so much..best resuts..but i can only have so many plugins without it telling me to increase the buffer size. which is allready maxed.
i run on average 12-15 tracks with about 2 or 3 plugs on each..jst compressors and 4 band eq's..
i also have 2 vocal tracks with auto tune

What are they? My gut inkiling is that they are software patches that add functionality to audio/MIDI programs like Cubase, Cakewalk, etc. Is this correct?

Currently I'm using Cubase VST Score 5.0. The VST stands for Virtual Studio Technology, which leads me to believe there are a bunch of pluginsfloating around out there that would turn my Mac into a "virtual studio."

I am hoping that someone will be able to help me (and my band) out with this situation. This may be slightly long winded: but I want to setup the scenario as best as I can... and I'm new, so please keep that in mind :)
Here's the deal:

How do you people mixdown your mix? a lot of people talk about it and it sounds complicated compared to what i do. I use N-Track to mix everything and then there's one button that mixes everything into and stereo track... Isn't that how it should be done?
thanks
oliver

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