Is there inexpensive recording equipment that measures up in every way to higher priced items, in terms of headroom, noise level, durability and sound quality? Or is this all just a dream? Is budget equipment a compromise of quality vs price? Do the cheaper knock off products really measure up to the “real” thing or are they just half or three quarters as good?

So, what is everyone using for routing and listening? Stepped attenuators? Mastering consoles?

What would be the 'dream' mastering desk? What would you want, and use every day? Inserts? Parallel processing paths? VU's?

Just polling everyone, mostly with regards to workflow and what affects it.

I'm trying to increase my productivity. People give me 120 minute cassettes to transfer to CD and I spend two hours twiddling my thumbs waiting for the audio to get recorded on my PC before I can do any work on it. I know that there are high speed dubbing cassette decks out there. What I want is a deck that can send that high pitched garbled fast audio to the outputs.

CAN I USE BEHRINGER ULTRA DYNE 9024. TO MIKE UP MY GUITARS AND IF I CAN WHAT THE BEST SETTINGS
TO USE. .USING MIKE AKG D130. .

ALL I WOULD LIKE IS TO UNDERSTAND . .MIKE UP MY
CAB AND GET THE SOUND TO DESK . WHAT DO I NEED IN BEWTEEN THIS AND WHAT KIND FOR SETTINGS. .
PLEASE HELP. NEWBIE. .SNEB...

I'VE LIMIT GEAR SO WHAT'S THE BEST WAY TO GO ABOUT THIS. . I'AM STUCK IN MY WEE ROOM. .
THE GEAR THAT I USE . . FOSTEX DMT-8.
BEHRINGER ULTRA-DYNE PRO 9024. ULTRAMIZER PRO.
AND VIRTUALIZER PRO. .MIKES...AKG-D130..
Shure 51SKA. .I GOT TO START SOMEWHERE.
I JUST GET A TINNY SOUND PURE MINCE.
HELP ME HELP ME.
:confused:

I'm Micing a bluegrass band in a live situation. what mics and where. ive got a pretty descent mic cabinet if you could just give large diaghragm / small diaghragm / dynamic i would appreciate it greatly. thanks, Jeremy :D

hi friends. I was transferring some ADAT/dm800 tracks to my PT TDM system, light piped via ADATbridge 24 bits/44khz and at empty tracks i get a readout of -114db instead of -00.
is that jitter, white noise? yes, it is a digital connection, quite funny ..
so?
:p

Folks,

I am still deciding if i need 2 hard-drives? I know it's recommened but the only Audio I will be recording is Vocals. All the other music will be done through vst plugins
(atmoshphere,trilogy,fm7,battery) in Cubase sx. Would having 2 hard drives boost performance if this is the case?