Very interesting article. The only thing missing is the part where you have to explain to the PHB with no technical knowledge whatsoever what happened. "Well, the CPU meter feature was causing a problem with the dongle." ??? ETAOIN SHRDLU craunches marmosets interstitially during vascular ...

XENYEX802 Premium 8-Input 2-Bus Mixer $45.00. Behringer can start a fight over quality among some people, but it's hard to beat the price just to get your feet wet.

One thing that I've found to be true that I was told is that it is often better to have light amounts of compression on everything, and a final mixdown as well, instead of just on final mixdown set to"squash". Classic compressor vst has a "premastering" setting that I use a lot o...

It might just be realband causing the problem, but for there is a setting in kore for sax and brass that causes a crash every time. The guitar rig causes a recoverable "fatal error" type thing with certain settings on certain plugins. And occasionally graphic elements disappear, settings c...

It's interesting to see the different "approaches" to DAW. There are a lot of good choices in all price ranges. And bad ones too. Mixcraft seemed to be the easiest for me to jump in and use; coming from a less midi/more audio background. Mixcraft is good for quick-and-dirty/meatball audio ...

I use both Kore and Kontakt player in <another> cough*cough "daw" which shall go nameless. (biab/rb). Kore is ok for what it does, and the free sounds are great, although most of what you get is of the "weird" variety, with too much effects, etc. But the ones you can use are grea...

I've become partial to Voxengo Curve EQ. Worth the price; the spectrum matching is a time saver.

Dollars to Donuts (what exactly does that mean, anyway), the drive letter of your USB has changed. Computer > right click Manage >Storage>Disk managment, right click on usb, change drive letter and paths (win7) in xp, it's similar, you're looking for disk management . Try "mmc" in run.

There are times when only an automated mix "macro" will do. One tied into a hardware console. The Mixcraft solution is workable, however, except when a plugin doesn't have a "main volume" or "output" type selector. That however is a plugin problem. So, you cut out the p...

I'm running it on a Toshiba Walmart Special L455D with a Sempron single core win 7 32 bit and whatever it can use from 4 GB ram. I could pick up a little more by turning off Aero and Sidebar, disable virus. Definitely not a speed demon. More than adequate for work. It's running the Blood Pressurize ...

In theory. I've put a project on a USB and edited it from there; slow. Very slow. A usb stick is not going to be as fast as even a slow hard drive except in the limited circumstances of Ready Boost, where you're more concerned with access time than transfer rate. Wiki: "...a flash drive has a m...

How bout this: http://www.flv2mp3.com/ convert the video to mp3, then import.

Are you using a mixer? (actual hardware mixer) If so, the audio you're monitoring needs to be on a different channel than the one you're recording. For example, My radio station's board has 2 channels, P and A. (program , audition) To hear what was already recorded, while recording something new, pr...

the old "use the tape deck as a limiter" trick, chief.

Easeus disk copy FTW. I use it for cloning our station's Production Drive. If it ever dies, plug in the USB, and it looks exactly like the one that died. Drawback for being free: Have to boot from CD/USB, and 3-4 hours per clone. But, the quality win7 included backup took 13 hours, and who knows if ...