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I would always recommend having bass effects running parallel to the straight bass sound, instead of in-line. I used to run my bass into a pre-amp, and take one output to the main bass amp and speakers. Also take a second out to my pedals, and the out from that into a small amp, that would just run ...

I have found the original Blackface ADATs to be fairly unreliable, chewing tapes too often, and the A/D converters too "grainy", probably because they are early 16-bit chips. The LX and XT's are a lot better sounding, and seem more reliable, definately a good choice for A/D and location recording. T...

S/PDIF is normally stereo, but can carry DTS/AC3 signals. These are 5.1 files encoded into a stereo stream, and sound like very nasty noise, until put through a decoder to turn them back into 5.1. This is very handy for testing 5.1 mixes, as you can make a 5.1 mix, encode it to AC3, then cut it to a...