My understanding is that coming out of the preamp is a 'line level'. And if your multiitrack doesn't have a line level input and you go thru another input you are just going thru the multitrack's preamp, which is what you are trying to avoid even though you may have 'warmed' up your sound with the external preamp.

All.

I’m weighing up a possible mixer solution for a home studio. The current setup is as follows:

Vocals: BLUE Kiwi / U87 -> Liquid Channel
Acoustic guitar: KM184 x 2 -> John Hardy M1
Room: BLUE Kiwi -> John Hardy M1

Preamps -> LynxTWO -> PC with Cubase SX 3

I use Pro Tools LE version 6.4. I use an external Hard disk. When I start a new session I cann't do it on my external harddisk (La Cie 160 GB), I get the message ''session must be on an audio record volume''.

I'm wanting to take the next step and see how different my recordings sound with an external preamp. Right about now you're thinking to yourself, "What a loser! Never even purchased a real preamp yet." I'm currently using a Mackie 24 channel 8-bus board paired with a MOTU 828MkII A/D converter. Been recording with this gear for about three years.

hello, i will be getting pro tools le 002r very soon. i had some routing questions:

would is the best way to route external effect processors with pt 002r?

best way to monitor my tracks?

i currently have a 24 track Tascam m3500,Tascam da38 and Tascam 38 8 track analog deck.

best way to convert da38 to light pipe to send tracks and monitor them via the 002r?

I'm new to the game of recording so please bare with me. i was just wondering what some cheap external devices for a pc are that you can record 8 tracks or more simultaniously? or whatever you guys recommend. i dont know where to look for good quality. is m-audio any good? it doesnt neccisarily have to be 8 tracks i guess.

I was having a problem chaining my firewire 400 drive through my metric halo and into my mac. I discovered that since firewire 400 is only half-duplex, that was causing the problem (when the computer tried to write the data to the drive, it had to stop the incoming audio..Duh). So I bought a USB drive so that i could have the IO and drive on seperate buses.

Hi everyone.
I'm interested in buying a small mixer, but don't intend to use the preamps on it. What I'm interested in is simple functions like panning and levels, as I need to use a Decca-Tree setup for some concert recordings, and want to a live mix to two channels.

People,

Picked up a Western Digital External HD for transferring Project & Bundle files (SONAR XL) between our band's two project studios (since most of our projects are well over CD-R capacity.)

The internal secondary drives in the PC's in our studios (which are used exclusively for audio data) are formatted to NTFS.

I presently have a 2 in/ 2 out sound card from emagic and I am looking around for an upgrade. I need an 8 in 8 out card lwith an external AD/DA converter ike the MOTU mk2/3 or the Aardvarkq10 etc etc. - the reason being, I'd like to record drums with a track per mic. (as you can imagine, trying to record drums on just two tracks is hard work)