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Yes, for classical, start from the standard recital config (viola standing off piano's right hand). If you want a more centered image however, you can manipulate but I wouldn't go too crazy. Listen to some recordings in headphones to guess how it's been done. For recordings I think some are manipula...

Processing in the monitor path is often to satisfy a producer or artist for how they want to hear something, without committing their wacky ideas to tape for you to repair later. "Need those cymbals boosted 15 dB at 5k?", "Sure!" For cue mixes, an artist might want something to really cut through, t...

Maybe. Depends on if the firewire bus/pci is the limiting factor. Of course it depends on your wordlength and sample rate as well. You'll just have to try it, right? you're the one with the setup. You'd need to set the PC as master for clocking purposes, unless you have external clocking options on ...

Nice call! I caught this last night. Other than the music being great, yeah I was hooked for all the mic shots. They really had the full business going for these performances. Someone knew what they were doing!

I've seen the Toft in a classical studio here and it felt to be of good quality. Good knobs at least! In your budget you could also grow your own with the SSL X-Desk + X-Panda . You'd need to add EQ's. Or an Allen & Heath GS-R24 is probably the most complete analog package under $10k. There might be...

First off, no audio console you could buy is going to appreciate in value. They aren't handmade musical instruments. The best financial situation you could hope for is to buy a current model second-hand, then you can turn around and sell it for about what you paid. I'd expect anything made in the la...

I'm pretty sure that VU meters in general are much more forgiving. They do a lot of bouncing, but you have to really be pinning it to experience serious clipping or distortion. This of course depends on what they are cal'd to and the max operating level of the gear. You can't just assume. Peak to a...

Are you sure all the VU's are cal'd to 0 VU = +4 dBu = 1.23 Vrms? That'd be worth checking.

Also, where they sit in the chain could make a difference on what you're seeing (input, pre ins, post ins, post fader).

What's the Tascam patchbay, what IO is there, just in and out or anything else?

nick_a's right, you probably need a patchbay to make things easy.

Is the manual for your console here? Otherwise, post a link to the manual and I'll give you some ideas.

This and this.

Define some criteria for yourself (university degree?, quick and dirty learning course?, etc). This topic has been discussed ad nauseum and can be searched in the forum. Do some research on the major directories below and come back with some specific questions. There are graduates of these programs ...

This is a fine way to do it--essentially turning your DAW into a multieffects processor. There aren't any phase issues when using aux send type FX as long as you're returning 100% wet mixes, which is how those are used anyway. 1-2ms of latency on a reverb or delay is not something you'll notice or t...

To my ears I prefer the silky top end of Intel.

I agree, it's a bit hard to get what your asking. Try bullet pointing your specific questions. As to wordclock, you just have to try it. With short runs you can get away with almost anything. I'm sure you can work something out, it always is a shame when I see a Big Ben somewhere where it's not real...