I'm looking for a preamp with the following characteristics:

1. must be stereo i.e two channels - no more, no less
2. must have digital out
3. must not cost more than approx $1280 / 700 pounds / €1000
4. must not cost less than approx $400 / 210 pounds / €300
5. must not be made by Behringer

I've narrowed it down to the following:

What's your feel on limiting the drum bus ?
When I'm doing rock, blues etc I mostly always run a pretty heavily compressed sub together with the main drum sub. Does anyone ALSO limit the drum subs too ? I'm just wondering about controlling spikes closer to the source instead of shearing them off with a limiter on the overall mix.

What do people think about this as a solution to the noisy G4s?

http://www.acoustilock.com/gcab.html

this is my first post, but ive been watching here for a while taking a lot of great info.

okay, i want to move up to a better recording setup at my house, and i was thinking of getting an Alesis ADAT recorder, but i have a few questions that someone here could most likely answer.

Just curious if anyone could give me some insight on the best bang for your buck studio monitors and headphones. For monitoring, I've read tons about stuff like the Mackie HR624/824 setup...and lately my interest has been aimed at something like the Yamaha MSP5's. Yes? No?

Okay. Now I know a lot of you will point a finger and say, "Hasn't this topic been covered ad nauseam?" Well, yes...and no.

There are specific questions that have yet to be answered. Most of the responses, thus far, have been more opinion as to "preference", not whether or not one Mac could perform the needed operations without a hitch.

I would like to have drum machine software on my mac (like fruity loops) however fruity loops has no mac version. Can I get some suggestions on software? And now that i think aboubt it, is it better to have drum machine software or a drum machine? Intrigue me.
Thanks
Amory Blaine

what do i need?

i have a MD recorder which has 2 XLR outputs and a pair of AKG C1000s

When I'm recording without a mic, using mon. seand straight to a comp thru a mixing board how do i reduce noise in my recording. (like hisss) ?

is it something to do with the instrament?
or can i do something in editing?

Hi, I'm looking into either DAT, or HD recorder for recording samples. Sound quality is top priority. Could anyone please give me some advice or recommendations? :roll:

Thank you

P.S.
what do you think of PMD670?