Hi all,

do you have any suggestion which the best monitor under $500? mostly I am working with acoustic guitar, contra bass. cello, flute and vocal.

Cheers,
Learn2fly

has anyone discovered the apparently SECRET IDENTITY of the Yamaha club v series drivers made by eminence? i have not been able to find any specs at all. not even the voice coil diameter!
thank you, john b.

Hello!

Which?

Well this is my first post so I will say hi to everyone out there!

I have a Gateway P7811 FX laptop and it refuses to let me record in peace! It has all the specs I need but there is something conflicting with the whole ideal of recording. So I have made up my mind that it is time for a different computer so I would like some opinions.

We are making a langauge learning CD. English and Japanese in each track. Should we use the same mic and use one channel.
Or should we have each person record separately so it is easier to mix each persons voice.
We have 180 separate 1 minute tracks to do.

Why do musicians slave themselves for FREE (or for peanuts) just to get their name in a credit roll? I can tell you after having produced a movie that I could CARE LESS what credits (if any) someone has. There's only 2 things I care about: 1) Is the song what I'm looking for and is the quality up to par, and 2) How cheaply can I license it for? Is it within my budget?

Anybody have experience with the Soundcraft Spirit M12 mixer? It has direct output that can be made post-fader so I can use my existing A/D D/A converter and use it for its mic preamps. Are the preamps any good? What do they compare to?

I'm prepping to build a new computer for my studio and want to get the best performance I can. I know the Xeon processors are considered server/workstation chips. But I've heard they do a better job number crunching.
Has anyone had any experience with them in an audio DAW or am I better just going with a high-endi7 chip.

Thanks!

I'm pretty new with all this (recording, mixing etc.) and was wondering if there are any certain books anyone can recommend to me for getting started in general recording, mixing, compression, mastering. I've been looking around, mostly on Amazon and there are so many, it'd be good to have someone point me in the right direction.