Recent content by ahiddentableau

Have you looked at Steinberg's Groove Agent? It's basically what you're asking for: a machine that produces a number of fully orchestrated drum and percussion patterns according to whatever of the various available styles you choose. I have a little bit of experience using Groove Agent 2, and...

Why wouldn't an AUS AC adapter work? The TASCAM doesn't know what supply is feeding it--it's just looking for the DC voltage. This isn't one of those AC to AC cases where there are other variables like current and the like. It's direct current--it's either there or it isn't. If there's more...

Why not buy the 424 MKIII? I know that the MKII seems to get more play on the boards (pro-Japan anti-Chinese mentality?), but IMO the MKIII sounds just as good and best of all for you its power supply is external. That would make it way easier for you to get around the power issue as you could...

I have a Pro Channel and I've messed around with the mods you're talking about, but my recommendation is to avoid tube swapping on that particular unit. Keep in mind that it's made and biased for 12AT7s, not 12AX7s (a much higher gain tube). So when you change them out, you can really mess...

Nice tips in this thread! Kudos to the above members.

I feel your pain. IMO, though, you'd probably benefit more from upgrading your monitoring situation than anything else. Boomy problematic low-end in mixes is a common problem arising from not being able to hear what's really going on in the low end. Paying attention to my monitoring situation...

What a bummer! The only significant complaint I had with respect to the original was (and is) its lack of post-mic pre outputs. I'm really disappointed that after having all that time to make upgrades (and even with the production of an optional breakout box) they still don't give us line outs...

I guess this is where our opinions differ. My main argument is that $500 goes much farther when spent on the hifi speakers than the same amount spent on pro audio market. For the price of a pair of "walmart" pro audio speakers you can buy a pretty nice set of bookshelves. Obviously you have...

I think the whole argument that hifi speakers can't be used for pro audio is bogus. Nearfield/bookshelf speakers are the same thing whether they are pushed in the direction of the "pro audio" market or not. Yes, they can be hyped, but as noted above, so are most "pro audio" monitors. No set...

If I was in your shoes, I'd look for nice little set of bookshelf speakers. Hi-fi speakers. 5" inchers should be plenty, but you can listen in hi-fi stores to get a better idea. They're basically the same as nearfields, but because they're not part of the "Pro Audio" market they don't command...

I think you'd be well-served to invest in a better monitoring setup. Headphones are far from the best way to reproduce a track's low-end. Even the best ones struggle to reproduce frequencies below, say, 80Hz or so. Get a set of nearfields w/ a subwoofer. They don't have to be top-of-the-line...

There's no real strong agreement on brands, I don't think. But my impression is that for Macs, Apogee gets the most love. For PCs, I see a lot of people praising MOTU--that's probably what I'd look at first if I was building a little PC workstation. But there are so many options out there now...

One of the other posters nailed it for me: compression is a tool for less skilled or polished players (like me). The bass isn't my main instrument. Aside from using it to impart a certain tonality (compression as effect), I use compression because it keeps my playing volume nice and even so it...

Thanks for the wonderfully informative and helpful replies. I'll look into all the recommendations. Mag, yeah, I'm running OSX. So if Garageband '11 has flextime, couldn't I just do my tracking in GB and then move my (flextime) edited project over to mix and work out in my copy of logic 8...

Does anyone know the extent to which Reaper offers users' the ability to edit audio files? In Logic 9 users can specify a point (or points) in a wavform and stretch or edit/quantize note lengths, the beginnings and ends of individual sounds, and so on. I think they call it "flex time" or flex...