These look excellent. I've never had the opportunity but hope to grab a chance to try anything in this series.

To all my friends and colleagues here on RO, I sincerely wish for you a very happy, prosperous and safe New Year. :)

-donny ;)

Here is an SOS interview with Andre Scheps, engineer for Adel, RHCP, Black Sabbath, Johnny Cash, and others.

Scheps is an interesting guy. Soft spoken, intelligent.

I found his comments regarding ITB vs OTB very interesting, and echoing what several members here (audiokid) have mentioned.

I am currently trying to read up on this subject. My audio interface accepts either balanced or unbalanced 1/4" jacks into its inputs, and out of its outputs.

I am beginner in home recording. I've recently bought a new audio interface, the Tascam US-122MKII, to record audio, guitar and MIDI tracks. I've successfully recorded all but the latter. For some reason I can't get any signal from my keyboard in my recording software. I've connected correctly the MIDI cables also.

I need to update my recording gear and need suggestions. I have an old G4 and 7.4 Pro Tools. Need to get in touch with this decade ha. I only do my guitar and bass parts here so fairly simple needs. Not sure what computer to actually get or what interface etcetera. I should have paid more attention during the last 10 years as we made our CDs in those big studios.

I know it's been a long wait for a picture of the new. . wait for it. TUBE EQ! So here it is. It is a Pultec EQP-1A style EQ, with high voltage tube makeup gain just like the original! It utilizes CineMag input and output transformers, a CineMag inductor, Tung Sol high-end tubes out of the box (12AX7 and 12AU7).

I've used Grace pres in the past, always really liked their sound, but I haven't personally used this one:

http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/m101

I saw a preamp shoot out on youtube, which is here:

Anyone own the software version of the Korg MS 20 mini?
How does it compare with the hardware version?
http://www.Korg.com/us/products/synthesizers/ms_20mini/

I am very new to recording and I have an MXL 990/991 microphone. I do not have a recording interface, so I was wondering if I used an XLR to USB cord, if either of these microphones would work by plugging directly into my computer. I have read a few forums and they said you need phantom power from an interface or else they would not work, so I am just trying to avoid spending $100 on one.