Okay so our my death metal band wants to do some recording. I have a Yamaha MG16/4 Mixing Console, a drum mic kit, Garageband, and a Mac Mini. I basically need to know anything and everything that could help me as I am just starting out. I want to be able to get a clear sound from the drums and a powerful but clear hit on the bass drum. And how should I go about recording the guitars?

I'd like suggestions for a guitar amp extension speaker cabinet that I could use to isolate my Matchless Hurricane (15 amp) or Fender Blues Jr. (after adding a speaker out jack). I'd be using it for jazz, folk, county, and blues right now. This would be used primarily for recording so I'd like it to be a single speaker and either have no grille cloth or a removable grille.

I'm finally thinking about a laptop to get but i would like some advice. I'm using pro tools right now for producing and scratch live for djing. i really want to laptop that i dont have to worry about crashing or some b.s failing me... any advice would be great

thanks

Ok, so It has 2 XLR and 6 RCA inputs(3 pairs). Is there any way to record 8 mics simultaneously into different tracks in software? My question is more about getting the 6 mics to go into the 6 RCA inputs separately. I don't know if I need another device or preamp or whatever in between the mics and the inputs. Or something like a mixer in which you can route certain channels into rca outputs.

In lieu of building a guitar amp isolation cabinet I was thinking of putting the amp in another room that has pretty good isolation. (Specifically a well isolated wine cellar. Not sure how the music will affect the wine.) This would entail a pretty long cable run.

I purchased 2 ART Tubefire (TF) a few months ago to facilitate recording live gigs, needed more than 8 channels is the reason for 2 units.

I am using a P4 3.0ghz, 120gb sata (dedicated drive), 2gb dual memory, firewire (VIA chip) pci card equipped PC running Windows XP SP3.

i have a friend who is using a cheapo keyboard that has only a output in headphone output form that he would normally use to play in silence but he recently started using it to connect directly to his pc for recording in Audacity my question is how good of qualility is that really for him?you know its just one headphone hole, should he upgrade like i think?

Hello, this is my first post so please forgive how noob my questions will sound. Im on the RX7 forum, and those guys will jump all over you if someone asks something wrong haha.

I am running WinXP SP3, Pentium 4 2.4Ghz 1.75G RAM - I just recently purchased and installed a EMU 1212m and the Patchmix mixer for the 1212m - all drivers and everything installed everything fine except for two things...

just a quick question:

sampling rates - will a higher rate give you higher quality? Or is this just a measurement of how fast the interface syncs with the clock? I am a little confused about this.