Hello All,
My name is John Stuart. I play and teach classical cello in San Antonio Tx.
I have some limited experience with recording. Most of that experience is posting cello works on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/alamocitycello
I have also done some on-site live recordings.

I appreciate any help you can provide. Thanks in advance!

I'm building a relatively small & sleek home studio with (hopefully) high-endsound. I'm a IT guy during the day and a musician at night, with an 850sq ft apartment as well as the following existing items:

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).

I will be recording an unusual music group in a couple weeks and wanted to get opinions and advice on a mic setup. I will have access to 8 precision mic preamps going optical into a digi002. I will also have access to various high quality microphones from the university's recording studio.

I'm a singer/songwriter whose looking to do some cheap recording (I know, I'm such a rare breed).
I've got the M-audio fast track USB interface, the accompanying Session software, a Sennheiser e835 (I think), and am about to get a Studio Projects B1.

Im a drummer/guitarist, and i want to start recording myself and others
i am asking for advice mainly. i see there are a lot of experienced and smart people in these fourms so i would like to know what exactly i will need to get my self a decent start. i just want to be able to record and edit music.

thanks

I use FL, Ableton, Reason and logic, I have a basic home studio and am lookin for some basic midi pad controllers, I was looking at these three, please tell me which would be the best or if you know any other good ones in this price range, And i know that in this prices range nothing is tooo good, but its all i can aford.

I have a reasonable understanding of all functions of a compressor, except release times. I would be very grateful for some insight into what kinds of settings one would use and why.

Hi,

I wonder could somebody please offer some soundproofing advice. I have just moved home and have a podcasting set up in my 'office'. The room is about 8'x8' with not a great deal of furniture in it.

I have a desk, studio monitors, mixing desk with two mics and the computer.

Hi,
I currently have a dual xeon 3.2 Ghz w/ 2 Gig RAM running Sonar 8 PE with a MOTU 1224 and use a Mackie 1604VLZ for connecting XLRs and playback monitoring (to avoid CPU latency). I'm considering upgrading the MOTU 1224 to either the 2408mkiii or HD192.