Anthony Ferrara (Ex-Soundscape US)- Is joining Mackie as of the 1st October.

Let's say I have a mixer w/ unbalanced i/o and another piece of gear w/ balanced i/o and they're both connected in both ways ins and outs. Is there any way to transform the unbalanced signal into balanced? If yes, how should it be done and pricewise does it worth to be done in many channels?

Has anyone built a RYO using a DFI WT70-E mobo and a 1.5Gig P4? It uses the Intel 850 chipset.

Heckuva sale going on here -- both for $199 -- should I JUMP?

I just bought a new MIDI controller(88 keys, no onboard sounds) I want to use it for EVERYTHING...VSTi's, outboard modules etc.
I also have a EMU Proteus keyboard, and an ASR-X sampler(has 13 pads)

Ash normally says something's discontinued when they don't carry it (this seems to be "Standard Operating Procedure" for them--back when I worked at Ensoniq, they said this about some of the Ensoniq products that were very current at the time.) Also, while doing a search for something else on Soundscape's website, I stumbled on a "3rd party developer" document for Mixtreme, dated 8/8/01--the pr

Over a few weeks I have tried a few mic`s and here are the results.

The mics tested was:
Soundelux U95S
Blue Cactus
AKG C12VR
DPA large membran model
CAD E-300(my own)
Brauner VM-1

C12VR: Overpriced piece of sh*t...Not very impressed, looking at the price (in Norway $3000)

Jim Holland had a thread over in Craig Andertons forum at musicplayer.com where his song "Waxman" was featured. I felt I would like to try to remix it, mostly coz he boasted many tracks, and that I never had tried anything like that before...

I can find the Genelec 1029 used for around $650 and the Behringer Truth are $650 new... which one do you guys recommend? I felt the Gens very powerful for the size and with good lows and highs... the Truth sound a little more flat... but I didn't know the room at all and they positioning was quite different from one to another...

Today I called samash to get another mixtreme

"sorry theyre discontinued" said the samash rep!

Now there are no phone numbers on the SS site!

Have we been Mackied? Same guys that won't support my Ultramix only 1 year after buying it ?

I was scared when Mackie bought SS, I guess I had good reason.

Please SS guys, whats going on ?

Here's the drill,

I bought a couple of Palm handheld computer / organizers for me and the engineer at the studio. Idea being, fast updatable (syncronises with base computer(s) ) studio diary at all times, (even remote internet updating is possible)