I was on Al Schmitt's forum and I noticed one statement which really caught my attention, and I wanna quote it, and then talk about the implications. He said,

"After the orchestra finished, we do some solo overdubs with flute and harmonica (which we end up not using) as well as vocals."

All,

I've looked on the web, but have had trouble finding what I'm looking for. Basically I'm mixing a song and want to add the sound of the ocean/beach (waves, seagulls, etc) at the beginning and end, but I really don't want to go to the beach to record it myself. I probably need at least 10-15 seconds before and after the song.

hi, I am planing to buy a mixing console for my project studio. I would like to have nice mic preamps, great EQs, and nice sound qualitues around $1000. I am currently looking at soundcraft M series, yet I haven't made up my mind yet. please let me know what would be my possible choice. thanx

I am having problems with noise ! My recording is on vocal tracer dictation. Recording (man speach interview) has a lot of noise, so I am wondering would be the Digidesigns BNR noise reduction or Ionizer good to solve the problem. If any body knows how to use this noise reductions plugins please let me know what is the best setup, or what shuld I use for clean this ugly noise!

Still searching for the affordable durable quality mixer setup, needs to be muy portable. I need good quality mic preamps, which may not come with a mixer meeting the other criteria, so I'm looking at line mixers. The Speck looks like a class act, but way too many little awkward concentric knobs and cramped controls. Amazing routing possibilities.

I have narrowed my choice in a mixer that will be used mostly for recording and mixing drums. I am interested in the Mackie 1604 ProVlz and the Allen and Heath Mixwizard, model WZ16:2DX. I do not care too much about features, just quality. Does the Mixwizard have better preamps and EQ than the Mackie? I'm concerned about headroom, being that I will be using this for drums.

I'm about to purchase (in the next few weeks) a PT system. Most likely a PT Mix Plus. However, before I tangle with a Sales Weasel I'd like to go in armed.

-jz

Hello. This is less of a gear outlook and more on the product/artist development side.

My Compaq (works great for multimedia, but TOTALLY unreliable - no wonder they're on their knees) is down AGAIN so I am forced to record on a Toshiba laptop. Only there's no line-in (mic-in only) and hi-impedence signals will be distorted by the pre-amp of the mic-in.

I have both a PC and a Mac. I've installed a network card into the PC and set up TCP/IP in both Mac and PC so that they can see each other (e.g. PING works). Do I need anything extra to be able to copy files between the two computers. If not, what do I need to do ?
Thanks
-Peter