I'm wanting to take the next step and see how different my recordings sound with an external preamp. Right about now you're thinking to yourself, "What a loser! Never even purchased a real preamp yet." I'm currently using a Mackie 24 channel 8-bus board paired with a MOTU 828MkII A/D converter. Been recording with this gear for about three years.

I am looking for a new mixer and was leaning towards the Soundcraft Ghost 32LE with meter bridge. I was just wondering what the general opinion of that board is and if there is anything else out there in that same price range that is better that I should be seriously looking at. I mostly just record bands now but maybe some 5.1 later.

Thanks,
Steve

I currently record on a Boss BR-864 and I don't like the limited amount of inputs. I want to move onto computer based recording and I have an idea on what I need to buy. I have a PC and I want to use that. I am thinking about buying an M-Audio firewire interface with the RCA and S/PDIF inputs and a mixer. I want a mixer with enough mic inputs to record drums that is under $300 dollars.

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I am new at recording acoustic music, and I'm absolutely fascinated with mic techniques. I would really appreciated if I can get some advices on the following questions:

Got an Avalon vt737dp which work great with vocals, but wanted to know if my instrument input is not malfunctionning :

Ok so I have an AMEK tac magnum and my problem is as follows.

channel 5 and 6 are flipped its a hard thing for me to understand as well so i will explain it like this.

Plug mic into input 5 shows on channel 6.

plug mic into input 6 shows on 5.

Hey guys. I do all my recording through a crappy little M-Audio mobile-pre. Well, my mom bought me a 4 channel mixer for christmas. This is nice, but I'm wondering if I really need it since I basically do all my EQing on my DAW with Adobe Audition. Right now, the only benefit I can see to having it is that it has 4 mic inputs, which would be nice to have when I need to record some drums.

Hello. I own an M-Box with Pro Tools LE 6.7. Im trying to record my guitar but ive encountered a problem with my distortion. Im using a Boss Metal Zone by the way. Anyways when i record, my distortion sounds like crap. I mic my cab 2 inches away with a Shure RS130 Dynamic. Is their any suggestions that you can give me that will help me get a better tone for my recordings?

Thank you.

OK... here is my dilemma:

I am trying to have 2 Midi Controllers. I have a keyboard and my MPC2000XL that I would like to control different synths. Sometimes I want to be able to use the MPC to play (record) drums, sometimes I want to be able to use my keyboard for pad, horn, synth sounds basically.

I was thinking of purchasing a pair of headphones to make Micing decisions. And also as an alternative mix reference.

We get AKG's and Sennheisers around here. What are my good options ?

Also, I was thinking of picking up a couple of AKG K55 (cheap) headphones for cue mixes to the floor. Do these work well ?

thanks a ton
Sidhu