hello all. Well as u have read i've had big trouble recording with my gear i hope you guys/gals can shed some light.

first of all let me tell u the gear i am using. I have a toshiba laptop with 1.5GB RAM, 1.66 GHZ duo centrino, using an Cubase SX as my DAW, and a macki onyx 1640 mixer with firewire as my interface.

I'm looking for a digital multitracker for home recording.
I chose these two because they are the right price point for me and can both record 8 inputs at once (great for live band recording).

Has anyone compared the two in terms of sound quality and features?
What does one ofer that the other doesn't?
The pros and cons of each?

I am currently using an Alesis SR-16 to do my drum tracks with, not being a drummer I find it hard to create my own Drum Loops and fills so pretty much just use the presets and process the Bass and Snare drum seperatley in pro tools.

Does anyone have any recommendations for cheap but decent quality wind screens for Schoeps and similarly sized mics?

I'm doing several recordings of college marching bands in the coming season and the standard foams that come with Schoeps aren't great at blocking wind (not to mention, my cat somehow manages to steal mine and destroy them everytime she can!)

Well, I'm looking at getting some preamps!

The only requirement is that it has to have ADAT, I'm looking at the

-Focusrite OctoPre LE
-PreSonus DigiMAX FS
-M-Audio Octane

They all look so good!

Hello everyone. I've got a gig coming up where I'll be monitor mixing for a band I've never heard before. Well actually me and my crew are running sound for a festival but the headliner insists on bringing their own console(instead of using our Midas Verona 56ch) along with their own FOH guy. So we're suppose to run their monitor mix.

What's up guys, I have been workin all summer and now I got some money burning a hole in my pocket. I want something listenable enough to put on a CD.

What I have that will be used:

Alienware 51m 7700 laptop, 3.4 ghz, 2 gigs of ram

I can't find the sound card info, it's Realtek I think...

Shure SM57

I got this reel-to-reel today from a relative who died. The unit was made between 1964 and 1967, as best I can tell, only it won't power up. Sony quoted me a ship-in price of $154 just to look at it with no guarantee they could get it running again.

Hey everyone, I just bought a Macbook with an 80 gig hard drive for recording. I'm planning on buying a 7200 rpm external hard drive, but the firewire input on the computer will be used by my interface. Would a USB hard drive be fast enough to record with?

Hi everyone!

I am finally moving to computer based recording. I sold my car and am spending the majority of that money on recording gear. My first purchase was a brand new Macbook Pro, dedicated mostly to recording. Now that I have a solid computer, I am looking into different interfaces and recording software.