Hi! I want to know how to route and use outboard gear such as compressor,eq,reverbs et delays.. ?

Do we need a console?
How we apply the effects after the tracks are recorded?

I'm a bit messy with this subject and I need help!

Thanks

I was watching stand up comedy on television the other night and something hit me. The comic was waving the mic all around and using the mic at all distances from his mouth. The thing that caught me off guard was that there wasn't much difference in sound as he did this.

SM57-58 have been a standard live and in the studio for over 20 years. But I wonder, of the people that have used them from when they first gained widespread use in the late 70's, how do they compare to the ones Shure currently manufactures? Are they really still as good?

Greetings.

I'm preparing for a long project, archiving some local bands from many genres.

And I need advice on how to recording audio for this project...
So far I've had advice to buy either AKG 414 or Sennheiser 416...
The budget has around 2000$ for audio hardware, so let me know what you think the setup should be.

http://www.macrumors.com/2009/03/14/updated-mac-pro-benchmarks-and-video-of-internals/

Okay, so here's the deal:

Hi All,

I had a request by a friend who I will be recording that we record his vocals with a hardware compressor in line before the signal gets sent to the DAW. I'm not exactly sure what the advantage of doing this would be other than his monitor mix would have compression?
Please stop me here if I should just slap on compression in the DAW during tracking.

Hi! I've been listen to many recording and I'm always a big fan of reverb on snare. I want to know how to put reverb on a snare drum...

Any tips?

Thanks :)

I have recently started a home recording studio, and was wondering what you guys think of using the Z-2300 system as a faux-studio monitor. I have every intention of getting studio monitors soon, but at the moment I am more curious as to how well you think these can get the job done.

I just recently got the rest of my rig together, and am having troubles getting my hardware to be recognized.

Here's the set up:
PreSonus Firepod > 6p-4p firewire cable > laptop (running 64bit vista).

I also have an external hard drive, so sub that in for the Firepod when called for.