Since christmas is coming up i thought id ask for some kind of midi keyboard as a present. the budget i got is around 150$ or less, it doesn't have to be the best just good enough for me to get a feel. i want more of a synth action controller but don't know where to start.

here's what i'm looking at for controllers in my price:

Hello, happy holidays! I have a question to see if anyone has experience with this mixer. I'm going DI 1-2 on my mbox from the mixer, so I can use the pre's on the mackie. I'm getting a hiss, low level but annoying. Is this normal or can I get around it somehow?The pre's on the mixer are much better than the mbox, that's why I want to use them. Is this a good idea or am I adding to much noise.

Hi Remy,
Can you please explain in more details? please?

For example, after tracking a live band, "(8 tracks)

RemyRAD wrote: do a second pass with the studio speakers on.

What speakers control room monitors? tracking room, amp cabinet?

if a question like this one has been posted, i am so sorry.

i had a small argument with my bassist regarding the placement of the compressor. my chain is this: mic > preamp> e.q. > compressor.
his was: mic, >preamp, >compressor, > e.q.
both into the daw.

which would be the correct way? even if it is neither i welcome any suggestion.

HI,

So I decided to stick with this Toshiba M305D-S4830 for my budget recording rig to go with my 16 channel Mackie 1640 and use the firewire setup to record band gigs of around 8-12 channels at any one time. Hopefully it's not going to be a mistake to jump into the realm of Vista 64 bit, I plan on using Cubase but am not tied down by it (if anyone has a better idea I'm all ears).

Hello all!

So glad I found this forum, will hopefully help with my future recordings! :)

In a few weeks I have to do a seminar on some classical styles of recording i.e blumlein par, ORTF etc. And I have been goign through my small jazz collection to see if any of them were produced with this microphone placement.

A buddy of mine let me borrow his Great River Mp2nv and I fell in love with the thing however there is one thing bothering me. When he's tracking a song from his motif xs to Pro Tools he always has the impedance switch in. He's tracking everything from kick, snare, guitars, bass, piano pretty much everthing is with the impedance switch on.

Is this a good thing?

I recently just purchased a UA 2192 and had a question on monitoring. I have the outputs from the UA going directly into my monitors but the problem is that there is no volume control on the 2192 and it makes it very difficult to work with when tracking or mixing.

I just picked up the amp sim. program Guitar Rig for my Pro Tools setup. I'm new to recording electric guitar by direct input, so can anyone give me any pointers?. I have a Digi 002, so do I just plug straight from the guitar into one of the 4 Digi002 input's that have a preamp?..

Hello, happy holidays. I have a question about how should I set up a cue box for my home studio. We have a room setup as a booth and we need to get a cue system hooked up asap. What is the best way to go about it, I have a Mackie 12 ch mixer going DI 1-2 to my Mbox, so I can use the pre's on the Mackie. I need to get a cue mix to the artist 50 feet away.