hi all,

i have heard great things about the empirical labs stuff - the distressor and FATSO. i have budgeted some money for some new gear and was wondering...

if you had to choose one or the other, which would it be?

(i have a PT setup)

thanks
- neil

I'm curious to know how many people connect the direct outs of their desks to the multitrack ins and how many connect the desk bus outputs? Does anyone use a combination of both?

Hi I am having problems hooking up a S/PDIF cable to my hammerfall 9636 card and my Tascam da-30 dat machine. All I hear is white noise coming out of the RMEcard. I am using a 75 ohm (I think) monster video cable. I also tried a regular audio rca cable and was getting a cliping sound over and over again. I also wasnt to thrilled in my hunt to find this little piece of text.

OK, so, we now know to get solid nickel contact patchbays rather than plated. Alright, now what's a good 48-point, 1U, 1/4" to rear solder, solid nickel contact patchbay? And what kind of price are we looking at; for 3-blades and 5-blades?

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Hi Fletcher et all,

It's high time I started making my own cables. Most of what I need is going to be very short run, semi-permenant XLR cables. I'll get Neutrik connectors, but would appreciate advice on what would be a good, reasonably priced cable. Also, could anyone suggest where I should make these purchases, as I am pretty in the dark when it comes to component retailers. Thanks a lot-

I've read over this forum and related sites, which all seem to agree that it is "safer" to go with Intel chips and non VIA chipsets.

I was wondering though, is there anyone out there that is using an AMD and/or VIA chipset without ANY problems? If so, what is your system configuration and what type of work are you doing.

I bought an 828 from musicians friend's warehouse in Kansas City for a whopping $99 because it had no manuals, software or anything but the unit. I downloaded the win 5.x drivers from motu's site and I've muddled my way through getting nuendo and logic to both work with it, but I'm confused by the monitoring and routing.

I tested three clocks for a friend and some people could not hear a difference. I was wondering if you guys can hear the difference in different clocks, if infact there is any audible difference.

The clocks were:
lucid gen-x6
lucid ad9624 internal clock
m-audio delta 1010 internal clock.