I wonder if anyone here uses apair of these. The specs are pretty good, and I've come to trust AT. I asked about the carioid version before, but I haven't heard anything about this one.

Thanks
John

I'm pretty new to home recording. I bought a Tascam US-428 and it works really well. There is one problem, though. When I hook up my Fender amp to the US-428 using the pre-amp output from the fender, I get a lot of static. It doen't happen using my old porta studio. Am I missing something? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi everybody, I'm new on this forum.
I just have a little question:
My mixer's analog outputs (Yamaha DM1000) are connected to a pair of Mackie monitors.
Considering the quality of DM 1000 built in converters (which shouldn't be bad), how much I would benefit if I buy an external dac, like the Benchmark DAC1 or Apogee Rosetta 200 for monitoring?

Alright, I understand the principle behind DSP cards. They do the grunt work by processing plugins. My question is concerning the application. Can you only use them with the supplied plugins (like included in a bundle) or does someone make DSP cards that will run your existing DX and VST plugs? Im using a P4 based PC and Win XP with Sonar 4 Producer.

There's an article in the latest issue of Audio Media magazine about the making of U2's latest record "How to dismantle an atomic bomb". Turns out that one of the tracks is mixed on a Mackie 8-bus console and that all of Bonos vocals are recorded with a handheld SM58.

I'm going to be building a new DAW and am thinking about using a 10,000 RPM HD for running my programs. I was thinking of using a 7200 RPM HD for my library.

A) Is there a noticable difference in performance between the speek of your HD?
B) If there is a difference should I use the faster for my programs or library?
C) Are there any problems using different HD?

Howdy folks,

Please keep this bumped so that I might get a lot of suggestions.

Just bought some new gear for the studio and am looking for some expert advice on when, where and how to use it.

I run a 24 channel Allen & Heath board to MOTU 2408 MKII to Nuendo2

I've got an ibook and a 120 gb external harddrive that I connect via firewire. I ws running a Pro Tools session and something went wrong and I had to shut down the computer (without ejecting the hard drive properly first). When I rebooted I got a message that said the OS could not read any files on the harddrive. I went into disk utilites but I couldn't verify or repair the disc.

Hi everyone! I'm an amateur brazilian musician, who enjoys prog/rock/metal/instrumental style. I am a REAL beginner and I own a X V-amp, which I plug directly into the line-in of my PC Sound board (which is a lame one, BTW). I use GuitarPro 4 to make drum tracks, because everyone of the drum-composing programs that I tried sucked really hard to me.

The samson drum mic set seemed to be cheap and decent in quality, at least from the few reviews I`ve read.
But hey I`m open for suggestions, the Akg mic I was thinking about was the AKG solidtube, but I havent decided yet.
I also think the rode rode ntk2 is a good contestant.
I would appreciate recomandations of other mics.