Ok...I was just reading a post where a guy said that Cubase SX sounds like crap compared to Logic. That made me start asking myself.

If I were to take the same wav or aiff and import it into two different programs. would one sound better?

If so, which PC based program sounds best?

Does anyone know a good place to get high-quality blank CDR media suitable for audio masters? Any idea what a good price to pay per disc might be?

Hello, i have been having trouble getting a good quality sound when i record an electric guitar. With distortion and without distortion the sound is muddy and muffled. I should most likely list my equipment:

Shure SM57 - for recording acoustic and amp (Behringer )
Tascam US-428 - input for mics and guitars
IBM Thinkpad t42 1.6ghz notebook - DAW running Cubase 5

OK guys, I know a lot when it comes to recording, but I'm not a bytehead or a tech guy so I'm not sure of the answer to this (I do have my assumptions though) but here it goes:

I have my mic hooked up through my mixer, and my mixer is connected to my computer. I have tried diff volumes, and right now I have gotten the best sound from turning the main vol almost all the way down and turning the mic volume all the way up. I have gotten a pretty good quality from that and if you have any better suggestions it would be greatly appreciated.

What am I missing? Right now I'm using Vintech X73i's a UA 1176 and a Distressor into a Rosetta 800 into my Digidesign 002. So far I've only really done acoustic guitar, room mics, and direct bass with good results.

NOTE: Moderator; Please quickly read this post and then go to the post below for more accurate description of my dilemma.

I have a RME multiface and have been more than happy with it. I have been using it with the PCMCIA card into my laptop but have just bought a dual G5.

Hello, I bought the TLM 103, not very happy with the sound and I was thinking about selling it and buying two less expensive mics...

I want a tube mic and a valve mic.

My choices after research were the RODE NTK and the CAD M9. any thoughs or advices on my crazy ideas "(for some people)" are welcome. .

How much quality is lost when going from A/D/A/D? Right now I have all of my outboard gear setup so I compress and EQ going into my DAW and use plugins for mixing and editing but I would like to start using the outboard stuff as inserts into my DAW.

So how do most studios do it? Record clean and insert the outboard gear later, or track with some compression and EQ?

I have a voice project I need to do in 8 bit, 8K. Everything I normally record is 44.1K, 16 bit or even 96K, 24 Bit but in downsampling the quality is terrible. We have SoundForge which can work that low, but we need some hardware to work with. No more request than we have for this we don't want to spend more than we have too.