I have a 7 piece Ska band coming in and I've never recorded brass instruments before. Let me know out of the following mic list what should be used. Any tips on mic placement?

Shure SM57
Audix i5
Oktava MK319
Blue 8 Ball
Sennheiser E609
D112
Beta52a

I'm thinking the i5 or the trusty 57. but I'm not sure.

My laptop started playing up earlier today, i put a floppy in the drive and when i tried to access it the drive made a really bad vibrating noise, i would compare the sound to a small radio controlled plane!
I took the disk out and it stopped...

I need some help with a new studio.The last time I messed with this I had MCI 16 & 24 track machines,now I have none.I do have around $20,000 or so.Two 2.5 G5s and a couple AMD fx53 pcs.Have not any experience with DAWs,just tape.Any sugestions? I love the sound of tape,but need low matinence.

Dear Membership,

Hi all!

i'm new here. I've recently finished my job at a recording college and have set about starting my own fun business up for recording demo's, voice over and mainly my own electronic production. I've got a half decent set of my own mics and can borrow from old work...but I'm finding all these funky 'new' mics I previously didn't know about.

I know that everyone is probably really sick of the Mac questions, but I'm looking for some advice from people with experience with Macs for recording and composing.

Hey gang,,,,

I'll be working on my own project while i go thru learning curve of using all my gear.

My first thought was to have a nice sized room, where i could record aswell. ( on other side away from control desk area)..

Or to have minimum recomended sized control room connected to one mid sized recording room ( guitars, vocal)

Hi,

I've searched the archives and learned alot! However, I still thought it worthwhile to post my query...

I'm a new DAW user coming from the ADAT world. I'm using Pro Tools LE 6.4 (waiting for 6.7 upgrade CD) with an M-Box and an iMac G5 20. I'm already using decent mics, pre's and compression while tracking.

Hi there,

i'm producing some music and we release records (12").
Our music is mainly digital.

I'd like to have some information about what is the most
accurate way to finalize my tracks in the studio before to
give the pre-master to the engineer.

hello there,

looking to get an interface which i can record bass guitar and turntables through onto an ibook G4. I hear that M-audio don't work well with Macs, Edirol make a couple of decent looking products but i've read some pretty unflattering things about them. Any ideas? I'm looking to keep the price below £300

cheers,
Mike