Crappity crap, crap crap.

For the last time, my Frontier Tango 24 has over-heated. I can't complain--it's worked fine as a front end for my RME card for 10 years. But as the years have gone by it's now happening every few months.

So... to refresh, it's 24 bit/48khz. 8 in A/D and 8 out D/A. Selectable +10/-4 on each channel. Word clock sync. That's about it.

I need recommendations on a soundcard to buy for my fiancee for Christmas.

After nearly 10 years away from it, I am about to embark again on digitally mastering historical audio from cassette then reel-to-reel tape. Back then, I simply cleaned the heads frequently. But I now note that the original Sony manuals for both my major "near-pro" consumer cassette and reel-to-reel decks talks about frequent demagnetizing.

Hi all! I'm putting together a home studio and am looking for some recommendations before I buy.

As for my situation, I'm recording spoken vocals for audio-only video games -- essentially radio dramas with some interactive elements. For now I only need to record 1 actor at a time, but I want my studio to support more than that in case I need multiple simultaneous actors later on.

Hi,

I've never used headphones outside of a studio environment---so forgive me if this is obvious. I'm looking for a set of headphones or two that I can take with me for recording and live performance that sound -OK-, are portable and not so expensive that I'll cry if they get smushed.

Hey folks, so what are people using these days for outboard EQ?

I usually like to track pure and EQ in the mix but after a series of recording events last night too boring to explain I think I would like to try inserting a EQ into the input chain.

It's my dbx 386 pre that I had in mind. I guess my budget us around $500 and I'll need two channels of parametric EQ.

Hi,

I recently bought a Win7 laptop for home use. I'm going to try to re-purpose it for use as a 'Rompler'... to replace my Korg and Ensoniq Keyboard WS which are getting ready to die.

I don't need a lot of sequencing... I just need to switch patches quickly. So this is meant to be not much more than a glorified multi-preset keyboard.

Hi all!

I'm a classical baritone singer and I've been exploring quite a little into studio recording. I have recorded quite a bit with my AT2020, and I was wondering what condenser microphones are there which will suit my voice better? I'm hoping to find one which is low in noise.

Hi all, I'm considering the purchase of a Universal Audio 710 mic preamp.

http://www.sweetwater.com/mobile/detail.php?itemid=710

My question is: will it outclass my pair of RODE NT2a mics? Is it too much pre for these mics to the point that I will need to upgrade the mics?

Thanks for your thoughts.

Lots of discussion of brands of basic mic cable in the archives, but I can't find any discussion of preferred brands of snake cable. Hardware recommendations would also be a help. I'm looking into making a 24 channel fan to breakout box, and maybe a couple of xlrf-xlrm subsnakes. I'd appreciate any help with brands and suppliers.