This is my review of the Hairball Gold pre. I built this from the DIY kit.

This review will be mainly in two parts - a brief review of the DIY aspect and the actual use of the preamp.

Hi,
I'm a producer of electronic music from Canada, a newbie on this forum.
I have somewhat of a problem when trying to balance individual elements during mixing of a song.
Trance genre requires specific things like a present and strong backbeat with a pronounced kick that doesn't interfere with the rest of the mix.

This might be a stupid question, but, well, I'm just starting to learn... I'm planning on buying a pair of studio monitors. I have a choice of two from the same manufacturer: Both have 19mm/0.75'' tweeters and their differences include:

Style and "quality" aside, what are the various elements that can make audio dangerous to consumer equipment.

For instance, how much bass is too much, can really high treble thrash speakers, what types of Wavesforms can trash equipment, etc.

I am completing my electronic "Dance?" album. I have gone through and read most of the posts about Mastering and how much room to leave for the mastering engineer.In my mix I am busing all the drums to a stereo fader and using the Waves L1 Ultramximizer at about 3-9 db of reductio. Bass sounds I am compressing pretty hard at about -8 of reduction on the trransients at a 4-6:1 ratio.