I am looking for a used mixer ($500 or so) with good preamps.

For example, does anyone know anything about the preamps on the Soundcraft Spirit 1682 mixer?

Any ideas would be appreciated.

A customer requested I setup their DAW system based on the above article. However when I do, the PCI based cards do not work. They show up and the drivers are loaded by XP but they have an exclamation mark and the message "This device cannot start" - Code 10. Switching the cards around makes no difference.

Hi all,
Advice please,
When I am listening to my mix thru my Yamaha MSP5s and I have a good sounding mix, I find that when I switch to any HI FI equipment thru their speakers it always sound to bassy or clonky espesialy in and around the 125hz, I have to cut the 125hz quite a bit to make it sound reasonable.

Ok guys.
Important update that I put on my tweak guide.
This pertains to formatting the secondary drive within XP.
It's important to format them as EXTENDED partitions and NOT PRIMARY!

Hey Opus on the virtual memory setting recommendation, do you do the same for both your system and audio drive? And, why that setting? Does that not limit the size of your swap file vs either a larger setting or windows managed? (BTW, regarding your hometown, I knew it was one of those North Shore seaside towns. They're all the same to us South Shore folks!) Thanks again!

Gary

Anybody able to compare/contrast these two multi FX?

whats the difference in sound deadening and sound diffusion?

i have read the comment somewhere on this site "you need to diffuse instead of deaden."
i thought it was the same thing.

So my audio drive is currently FAT32 and separate from my system drive, which is also FAT32. Because Logic does not like FAT32, I have been trying un-successfully to format to NTFS. I was also unsuccessful converting to NTFS, but I really want to format vs convert. I've had no luck working from XP or a command window. The following is the message I get:

Here is a room I am trying to figure out how in the hell to set it up for tracking AND mixing.
It will be a decent sized attached garage with 8,9 or 10 ffot ceilings, and I havent decide which height yet, but I need to soon.
The floor plan is here:
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I do transfers from vinyl to CD. The ones that I've done for regular people, they just love. However, when I've done it for someone who tells me they are an audiophile, I either don't get a second call or they tell me the sound that they get with their ultraexpensive turntables (think LINN) sounds more alive and real.