I am getting ready to drop close to $10K on a small project studio to record one or two performers at once. (All I have already is a Kurzweil 2000, Ibanez John Scofield, other acoustic, classical, and electrics, a Marshall amp, a Line6 AxSys212 amp, Mackie 1604 & 1202 mixers, Furman headphone distribution amp, Marantz cassette multitracker and some cheap mikes.)

I've never dealt with portable recorders so I could use some advice. All I need is 1-2 channels with built in mic preamp's and a monitor out put. It has to be able to record 1-2 hours of audio at a time. It doesn’t need to be high quality just clean. I just want to record the pasture doing his sermon at church.

Is it possible to connect 2 Firepods to a Powerbook at once? I know the FP has 2 firewire ports on the back - can you daisy-chain 2 of them together? I have a Firewire 800 external drive on the FW 800 port for storing audio.

I want to do this to record 16 tracks at once. Is there a better way to get the same results (16 at once) on a Powerbook? Or do i need to get a G5 Power Mac?

What is the best way to connect the following.
FW1884 mixer, SC8850 sound module, Roland PC 200 midi keyboard.
I'm using Cubase SX2. I need to be able to monitor from computer and from mixer with both midi and audio.
Any help, much appreciated.

Yamaha MSP5 studio monitors...

retail at £299 approx. hoping to get them on ebay, 2nd hand for £200 or so.

I am looking for some good recording and mixing monitors in one..and have read good things.

what would you recommend as a good pre-amp/extra inputs for a digi002, what gear can do a good job for these two, both in one.

hey guys i m recording the first ever drum session now...since i did'nt have a bigger room b4 now i do...so here is the equipment...

DIGI002..
TLM 103
RODE NTK
Apex 435 pair
SM57-58 pair of both

I'm new to midi and would like to purchase a Fatar TMK-37 MIDI Controller because quite frankly...it's $39.99! I want to use this to create drum loops and also some keys here and there. Is anyone familiar with this unit, and will it be decent for what I want to do?

I just used the AT4040 on solo violin this evening (just finished 20 minutes ago and wasted no time telling the story...) With it directly over the neck and aimed towards the bridge, the sound is absolutely stunning. Realistic, lifelike and quite warm and friendly. I used this as my main and the MG M296 omnis out about 2 meters in my small/intimate studio.

Looks like RO auto trimming feature got rid of our stickies, '100 ways on getting the most out of your vocal talent' and also the one on voice lessons. Chris is trying to recover some of them and we will post them as soon as we can. Meanwhile, I though maybe we can start a new sticky on 'tricks and tips for recording vocals'
please add to it at will- thank you,