I don't know about the new format of the forum, to be honest.

I myself, despite six degrees of separation, know of at least one gold selling album (US) recorded and mixed completely ITB in a small bedroom in Marina Del Rey. I can vouch for it. I was there for a good week while it was being done. The only outboard that was used was in the front end, AFAIK.

Hey!

JohnTodd has a new album out and there are some great songs on it! He was kind enough to allow me to play with this track "I'll Be There" So below is the journey.

Kudo's John!

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You know, one of the chains in my workflow just bit the dust, so I crawled out of my cave to do a little shopping - and I am amazed that all of the marketing tends to want to point us towards a "hybrid" system - with "real" tactile touch of faders, and the ability to mix OTB because it has that "analog sound and feel".

What are the benefits of relocating the power supply from inside a piece of gear and into it's own external box? Electrical interference reduction maybe? I've notice a number of really high-end preamps having this feature.

Hello

I'm currently at a crossroads with my gear! I've been running a small production studio (one room job!) and will be renovating to a decent sized control room and a nice live room:biggrin:

I have been looking for a mixer that covers a need of many of us. I'm talking about using a mixer for its analog summing without just setting the faders to unity and automating in the computer. I have used SSL and AMEK mixers with their own automation engines and recall systems, but we all know how much they cost.

Im a communications student studying audio at this time, all I've ever done for recording is mic the instrument...run those to a Mackie 1604-vlz which runs into our 002 factory board then into pro tools. We'd track everything and then i'd use a few basic PT plugins to mix afterwards.

Out Of The Box - A term that refers to a recording project that was partially or completely produced using hardware equipment outside of the computer. Box is another term for a computer.

See: DAW

OTB - see analog summing and hybrid DAW
see: ITB

I've been told that ITB converters may be a better choice for high-end audio now. It does make sense. What are some of the better PCI converters?

I have some older vintage analog tape gear along with new computer recording gear...and I need some advice on how best to wrangle and incorporate all of the various pieces I want to use so I can record and :roll: playback some analog tracks and then run those into my DAW, then maybe mix other analog sources back again..some digital stuff and some analog stuff and be able to move between the two