With a substantial investment in PT mixplus, plugins and various outboard, I am currently feeling reluctant to even consider the PTHD upgrade path.

My son is thinking of buying a combined digital I/O and A/D device so he can do some serious home recording with an iMac. One product he likes has a memory card interface identical to those that are used with digital cameras. The product is made to be used with Powerbooks that have built-in card readers, and the actual output is a card on the end of a cable.

Does anybody's got experience of Timpanis Micing? What are the best Mics for it and Mic positions?

I am putting together a new system and am considering this. What are the plusses/minuses over other systemS? How does everyone like the digi software? Soundcard? Just fishing for more information so I make a wise decision. Thanks! RandyG :cool:

I know that I have probably missed some good discussion on this already, and I don't mean
disrespect by posting a completely new topic for this. However, what are the feelings about
Win98/2000/XP. I am running an athlon 900Mhz DAW with an Echo Layla/Mia on 98 (software
sonic foundry vegas/sound forge). As far as I know the WDM drivers for this setup are

Gee guys! I havent been in here in a few I feel like a complete stranger! lol

I have a chance to pick up a couple trident series 70 channels strips, full strips but,.. Ill have to have them racked. cost will be around $400.00 for pair before racking. Good Deal or stay away.how much can I expect to spend for racking, any suggestions on some one who is good. thanks to all.

Hi everyone - this site is so informative I had to register (an escapee from Harmony Central). I have some basic concerns about home recording. I have a P3, 20 gig hard drive, 128 mb, and I have been using Sonar, for recording guitars (nylon string and electric), keyboards, bass, midi drums and acid loops. I have some latency on some tunes, and I need to upgrade.

I've been reading a bunch of these forums for a while now, trying to figure out how to get a little studio set up. I am completely new at this, but I'm really excited about giving it a try...the problem is that I have no idea what I'm doing.

When you guys track through outboard compression into a DAW, are you mostly adding a little here and there to avoid peaks, and then adding most of your compression with plugs during mixing, or are you trying to dial in most of the sound you want up front with the hardware, so to avoid needing lot's-O plug comps later on?