Anybody know what the difference in a live board verses a recording console is?
Like for instance Mackie boards are marketed as that they are live and for recording use. And then the Midas series boards are called live boards?
Is it just that one company designs something and then after proving themselves in the market place that it becomes one or the other?

I'm thinking of buying a used Edirol DA-2496 PCI sound card.

The newer Edirol Firewire and USB interfaces (UA-1000 and 101, FA-101) have both a software monitoring and 'zero latency' hardware monitoring mix knob. I don't see any such thing on the DA-2496 break-out box.

this is a mic from the 70s...looks nearly identical to the RE16, but slightly squared off on the top of the grille. I inherited one of these mics...in my minimal testing I've found it sounds great on guitar amp for an aggressive, focused syd barrett type sound. wasn't thrilled on voice.

does anybody love these for certain applications? like would it sound good on a snare drum?

.. share your tricks, tips and workarounds using a midi controller ...Latency issues
somebody?

Any help from someone experienced with MIDI would be appreciated! I've got an Alesis SR16 and a Tascam 2488. I'm just learning about MIDI and I'm trying to figure out if it is possible to spread the drum kit to different channels on the Tascam for recording. The stereo outputs to 2 tracks is easy, but I'd like to be able to manipulate kick, snare, etc separately during mixdown.

I just picked up a 2'' Ampex mm1100 and am curious if I'm recording music (after aligning the maching) at 0 vu and I've set the machine up for +6 at 0 vu (if that makes sense), should the playback be the same level or lower? When I play back the music from the machine, the vu meters seem a lot lower (maybe it's -6 vu lower) and the audio coming out is a lot lower. Any advice?

So are interleaved files a production standard? and also does it throw off your left and right (panned) waves? like if you panned something right wouldn't end up on the left as well as the right?

has anybody compared these 2 mic preamp/eq's?

How do they sum up ur mixes after runnin ur toys thru them?

We do hip hop here; beatmachines, keyboards and vocalz. And want more out of our sound(s). Right now we're just patchin into our Digi 002, which is ok. We want better.

My first time posting, been a reader of the forum for a while now. hope you guys can help me out!

Here is my situation:

My us-122 is all messed up right now. It started with the left side just not working one day and i haven't been able to figure out how to fix it or where to fix it. Now on top of that everytime i plug my condenser into the right side and turn the phantom power on it makes a fuzzy hum noise that is like -5 db. really bad!