What is the point of recording at 192 htz or 96 htz when you have to dither everything down to 44.1htz to burn it to a CD? Does it sound better? I don’t understand why to buy a 24 bit 192 htz vs 24 bit 92 htz if you dither down to burn a CD? I am thinking of gettting the Aleis 24xz but it only records up to 96khz.

I had read many post about DIY preamps kits and myself been watching and thinking seriously about getting something done.

But is this question on my mind: Do the DIY kit preamps fill the need of self estime or they bring quality at not so expensive rates?

what i'm seriously looking for is cleaner, colored and quieter preamp, and the prices are relatively lows.

peace.

I was looking at the Focusrite Octo-pre with 8 channels of pre-amp and compression for under $1000. Seems almost too good to be true. Does anyone have an opinion of the quality of these units? Thanks. :)

Hi...
this is my first topic in this forum which seems very great!

Well, even if I know it's better to record guitars by mic-amp-mixer, in my homestudio it's easier to connect guitar-fxprocessor-mixer.

I would like to buy a new guitar fx processor (Pod or Behringer V-amp2) to improve the sounds of my guitars. Until now I've used an old model of Zoom.

I'm using a stereo pair of km185's. I was considering a Vintech 1272, a summit 200b, ... Any suggestions? What about that True Systems analog2? Please help if you've had great experiences with a dual preamp. Thanx 8-)

Could anyone tell me what is the sound quality of the converters on Mackie d8b console? I could get one cheap but it's not about the money.. I don't wanna get something with converters sounding much worse than a decent ouboard converter. I would buy RME 5692 card with 3 ADAT interfaces and use d8b as a mixer/converter going to either nuendo 2 or Cubase sx3.

I'm doing some cassette transfers for a client and I'm looking for some advice on purchasing a cassette deck. I've been looking at the Tascam 130 and a few Teac decks but I'm open to anything. I hear Nakamichi decks are the best. Basically I need a low noise, wide frequency range deck with very low wow/flutter. A deck with dbx NR would be a plus.

Any suggestions?

I'm pretty new to all this recording business and I'm having problems recording a decent electric guitar sound.

I'm running a cheapish (£90) Stagg MCO 5BK through a Tascam USB 122 into my Laptop but the recordings sound very distant and flat and lack any real punch. It's especially bad if I'm using distortion. Single clean notes aren't too bad but anything else is nasty.

Hi everyone,

I need to buy a high-quality wired lapel microphone to connect on my brand-new Sony MZ-RH910 minidisc

I have a DAW with 3.4 Intel, 2 Gig RAM and 320 gig in hard drive space. I use Delta 1010 and Audiophile 24/192 cards. For some reason, the quality of recording on Audiophile 24/192 (not 24/96 card which came out initially) sounds better than on Delta 1010. I record keyboards and vocals mostly and rarely Guitar and I was comparing the quality of vocal parts.