OK, I am a dumbass.

Help me understand near-field monitors. I am setting up a home studio (largely for recording our band.) I had planned on plugging my DAW into my harmon kardon amp and powering two JBL bookshelf speakers and two larger american acoustic speakers. My thought was that I would be able to a/b large and small speakers while mixing.

In more than one post Bill Roberts has stated that a mix should go to the mastering engineer at -6 db. Does that mean that I should record each track at -6 db also? Or should I try to get the maximum signal I can on each track and then mix to -6 db?

woot! I just found my long lost light pipe cables, so now I can have 8x fun!

Just thought I'd share that.
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ljp :p:

We are proceeding to check cheap comps for our bedroom studio.Anyway did anybody try that box?

Donny

http://www.popcorn.dir.bg

Does anyone have an extra clip for a Sennheiser 421 that they'd be willing to sell me? It's the old model, the U-5. I got a good deal on the mic but it didn't have a clip.

thanks,
Nick

does anyone have experience with these two pre's? I know they share the solid state/tube technology.

other than price: Studio Projects VTB-1($179.00)vs. the Summit 2BA-221($500ish) do they compare sound wise?

thanks

I was wondering, what are your favorite cymbals to use for recording?

Mitchell

I had a computer put together a while back from Soundchaser. It's been flawless until recently. Every once in a while the OS drive will make some crazy noises and I will get a hard drive failure notice with no boot up... Then after five minutes it might boot up again.

I am looking for that kind of thing to use primarily for mix down. The smaller the better (size-wise).

Well, no one's replying to this post in the mastering section, so maybe i'll try it here...