It seems that acoustic/electric bass guitars are becoming more common, as most music stores stock a few. How well do these perform in recording, and how do they differ in recording from their solid body counterparts (major advantages/disadvantages)?

i've got some condensers and dynamics, i'm generally a mic the cab up close kinda guy, but i want a amb sound for this session i'm workin on, and i don't want to use fake reverb.

its for a fast punk style sound, i'll prob still close mic it though, but i want to be able to choose what i want, when i mix it.

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Excuse me for my ignorance, but I keep hearing a technique used on commercial tracks and want to know how to emulate it for use in my recordings. It probably has a name, but if I can describe it I'd say it's a sort of feedback 'buildup' that is used in the transition from verse to chorus, before the big distorted guitars kick in.

I have a firepod at the moment (soon to be profire 2626) and i was thinking of getting 2 preamps with an eq and compressor built into them- the PreSonus eureka and Joemeek 6Q- and connecting them via spdif.

But they would be around 500 euro each. Would it be a better idea to get a digimax fs and have 8 preamps via ADAT then add external hardware to the inserts down the line.

my problem is i cant get my midi keyboard to work through the bcf.the bcf is accepting midi signal but is not not going through to my software.in any prog fl Cubase reason or stand alone synths.the bcf does work for mixing though

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So I'm looking into starting a professional home studio. I have some ideas of the equipment I'm looking into but there are a few odds and ends that there are a lot of choices for. Here's what I have so far.

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I am wondering about the order in which I should set up my devices. I am recording guitar direct (or bass) and wish to run it through a Lexicon MX200 effects processor, a preamp, a compressor, and then obviously the last connection will be my Firebox DI box.

In what order should I run the compressor, Lexicon (for a little reverb), and preamp?

I just started getting into these things after I downloaded a sexy little free plugin called "Stereo Tool" by Flux. http://www.dontcrac…

I have some extra money saved up. I'm thinking about getting the UA 2-610 for my studio, but I don't know if it will be the best for the style of recording that I do. I currently own the dbx 386 preamp which I'm not satisfied with as my main preamp. I also need a better AD/DA converter, right now I'm suck with the 200 dollar Behringer 8 track converter that to my ear sounds horrible.