I have been the witness of a rather overheated topic on a forum about caraudio. The discussion goes about decibells. I think that every 3db doubles the sound pressure (law of nature). But what is the exact difference between the different types of db measures? Can anyone shine a light on it to solve this discussion.

If this is the wrong forum for this topic please excuse me :)

I have just finished building a new DAW, see post:
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I have just finish building a new DAW. It's an ASUS P4C800-E, P4 3.0Ghz and 2 gig Corsair PC4000 (4-512 sticks), whoo hoo! It's configured for a simple IDE configuration with an OS master drive and CD-rom slave on IDE1 and an audio drive master on IDE2. All went well, no beeps or an occasionaly single beep during the installation process of OS and drivers.

My new dual processor machine is unstable with Cubase SX and totally unusable with Wavelab 4.0 and Cool Edit Pro. When I try to play a wav file in wavelab 4.0 it turns into a distorted mess after about 3 seconds. Cubase SX will record and play but I get pops and clicks when I bring the Layla console up and down...or make adjustments to the output levels.

What's used or what technique is used for a complexed mix? Is there a lot of cross fading going on? Snippets of audio being mapped across the score? I understand it's no one paticular thing but what list of "general" processing goes on with this process?

I have read many good comments here on AT mics, but never this model. Anyone have experience with this model? I can get one cheap, I just want to make sure I'm not buying the scurge of the 30 Series mics.

Also, any info on the ATM11R? OK? Junk?

[ August 29, 2003, 07:04 AM: Message edited by: tripnek ]

I just ran through all the tweaks. Great advice.

There was just one thing that seemed strange to begin with and I even had trouble performing the tweak.

It was unchecking write caching for the main drive to improve read speed. Isn't, performance, the main goal disk caching?

First of all, how is disabling a write cache gonna speed up reads?

I'm trying to figure out getting my overall sound levels to where i'd like them. So far for each instrument I just have eq, then I use c1 compressor, just setting the attack and delay, nothing else, then l2 in the master with a -3 ceiling. I don't want anything squashed. Now started out should I start with the loudest elements the kick and snare? roll them up till before they peak?

Hi all,
I am currently setting up a new home studio and I am using nearfields for all my work.
I want to get into mastering and feel its either time to get some better nearfields or studio monitors.

Hey all, I'm a bit curious. Which compressors (or other devices) are your favourites when it comes to totally smash drums etc and make them pump relly heavily and take a last breath of life :) Yeah, I'm talking compression as an effect, but not all of them sound cool used that way. I've found a few cool ones but I'm still looking for that ultimate sound-destruction-unit. Any favourites ?