I am new to digital audio. I use CakeWalk Pro Audio and am trying to integrate a Yamaha TG100 tone generator. In my Windows-based computer I have a SoundBlaster AWE-64 sound card/DI adapter.

Analog compression before digital? I do it, because I am not totally knocked out with plugin compression so far. and I am pretty much doing what I used to do while recording to 2" tape..

I dont do it for "tape sound" (*see below)

Or to serve max level to my converters (*see below)

I do it to compress!

What do you DAW guys do?

I was searching for a good price on a Studio Projects C3 and came across this http://pw1.netcom.c…"]website[/]="http://pw1.netcom.c…"]website[/] that states "Audio goes to 2 track DAT in the digital domain at 20 bits, bypassing the usual 16 bit A/

Who is using the D8B and what do you think of it so far? What are you recording to? Any tips on setting it up? How many MFX and UFX cards do you really need? Is the automation smooth enough to use? Any software limitations or bugs that cause headaches?

I've talked to dealers and reps and Mackie guys directly, but I want to know what the people who have them think. Thanks.

I've been trying to figure out what PC (Mac or Intel) to get. Initially I will be recording
- a cappella
- 1 to 3 tracks at a time
- will easily get up to 24 tracks so I would like like the capacity to have at least 48
- not sure how many plugins I will want on each track (due to my inexperience with all of this)

Could someone tell me which of the two would work best for someone who would basically be using it to check monitoring levels?

I have purchased an Echo Gina 24 interface to run on a pentium 4 pc. The card included Cubasis VST bundled with the software...the card recieves the input from the ADAT (8 lines at once) this is all good...but the software will not allow the signal to register within the program. What have I misconfigured?

Searched the site for info on this, but couldn't find any.

Has any found that drums mixed all digital either directly in a DAW or through a digital console don't quite have the impact of going out the D/A's to an analog console. When mixing drums all digital I find then to have to much realness and not enough impact for rock and roll. Do you find the same thing?

I'd like to know what is the determining factor on the higher cost that some converters have, related to others. As far as I know, the electronics involved are pretty the same, but prizes are not!
Thanx in advance, sorry for my english (poor!)