I'm fairly new to the whole recording thing. I'm wondering what stuff I need to start building a basic home set-up, and what brands to go with. I've been hearing from one end "Mackie is the best", and then oh "Mackie sucks go with Roland". If anybody has any experience (which I'm pretty sure there are a couple of people who do), please through some useful advice my way. Thanks.

here.

Does anyone have one? Thoughts on it? Is it worth it?
Thanks!

Hi,
lately ive been looking at the firepod/firestudio and everyone says that the spidf clock on the firestudio is SO nice. But i have no clue wut it is. Can anyone help me?
thanks a lot!

does anyone know of a good Sound Eng school in Louisiana?

okay bought a new laptop to do some recording with - the internal audio in laptops is horribly substandard, so . . . .

want to go with a Firewire or USB interface. must be portable.

within my budget the choices are:

M-Audio Fast Track Pro
Tapco Link.Firewire
Alesis ilo 14
PreSonus Firebox
E-MU 0404
Lexicon Lambda
others?

Hello all...

As a service to my university and friends, I record live student performances at my school... I've recently acquired a whole new rig that has been working quite well so far. It is a DAW as follows (brief spec):

I miced a drum kit using a pair of Samson C02 overheads, an SM57 on the snare and an AKG D112 on the kick. The Overheads were ran through a pair of PreSonus tubepres, and the Kick went into an art tube mp preamp. These were then fed into a Fostex VF160EX recorder.

The overall sound was very good. It sounded real, almost live, and went direct with no EQ sounding pretty decent.

Hey,
Ive always wondered but cant find the answer. Wut are plugins exactly. I know they put effects on wutever u want but are they as good as buying the real thing. Like is a plugin compressor as good as a real compressor?
Thanks, just something to talk about

Hey guys, i'm new the the forum and this is my first post. I've revently bought an m-audio keystation 49 because i'm getting into synths. I've had Ableton Live 5 for a year now. I recently noticed that it seriously lacks in the midi department.

I have a firewire 410 from M-Audio. I need more inputs or preamps . Is there an 8 channel preamp like the PreSonus Digimax that i can hook up through the ADAT to add to the 410 so i can have more inputs? Maybe using the ADAT? or the firewire?