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Hi. The place where I work has a small video edit room and they want to upgrade their crap speakers to some nearfield monitors. They asked me for a reco. I'd prefer to go self powered. I know Mackie has a product for about $150 per. And Yamaha has the H5S. Any suggestions I can check out reviews on?...

Hi. Long story short, I have a Univox U45 tube amp, probably early '60's. Nice 8 watter, Jensen speaker. Used it for years for recording. Developed a minor hum. Took it to a reputable tube amp guy. He replaced components, tubes, then had me buy another matching transformer. He still couldn't get it ...

Hi Everybody. The company I work for bought a Canon 5D camera that shoots stills as well as gorgeous 1080 HD video, but it's sound features are crap. Any suggestions for a good bang-for-the-buck shotgun mic and a digital field recorder. Would love it be able to record aif 48k files for native import...

I read a wonderful article in Tape Op. I believe it was written by a drummer/engineer who had tracked at Ocean Way, then wanted to get the same big sound in a smaller room. A big part of the article was calculating where to put the room mikes based on a ratio of distance from the walls and distance ...

Old saying: never fall in love with your gear. Eventually it craps on you. I have a Univox U45 tube amp. (Not to be confused with the Univox U45-B. They look the same, but have very different schematics.) It's an 8 watter with a Jensen 12" speaker from early '60's.. A great amp for recording. Just d...

Hi. I've been tracking a demo project at home on Pro Tools. I'm about ready to print and thought I'd bust out some of my old analogue gear for the mix. I have a half rack Lexicon LXP-1 reveb-modulation unit. Problem is I've got a handful of wall warts and don't know which one to match it with. (I bo...

Have a Pro Tools set up at work. Lately clients have asked us to put together radio spots for local markets. Some times they provide the VO track and we add bkgd sfx and music. Some times we do the whole thing. The radio stations request mp3 files. Up to now, I've been printing everything hot, just ...

Loud amps also create sympathetic frequencies that feedback (think Hendrix). I've got an early 60's univox with a 12" Jensen. Probably about a 10 watter. But I dime it then play a cranked early 70's SG so the humbuckers are right in front of the speaker, just behind the mike. (I raise the cabinet.) ...

Hi Everybody. I think I know the answer to this, but I'll ask any way. I was just handed some footage of an NFL coach for a trade video. Sounds like it was recorded in a large tile warehouse, lots of reverberant ring and a boom mic that was pretty far from the subject. I think my best bet is to try ...

You can't make this stuff up. A guy (singer/songwriter) hands me about a half-dozen audio cassettes of demos he's done with bands about 30 years ago. He wants the material on CD. I have a Tascam 102 cassette deck in very good shape. I set up for Pro Tools. Match levels. Hit play. For about a second,...

Hi. I'm hoping someone can set me straight on this. I bought a second Proetus 1XR on ebay after my first one crapped out. It comes equipped with a ROM memory, which you can reinitialize, however the XR model has extra memory to accommodate additional patches. The previous owner had tweaked a lot of ...

At work, somebody brought me an ancient microcassette recorder and wanted over an hour and a half of yapping digitized and burned to CD. Excruciating long load into Pro Tools. Excruciating long bounce to mp3. Anybody know of a butt-simple easy-to-use field digital recorder that doesn't cost a fortun...

Hi. Am original owner of Digi001 (Mac G4 still running OS9). I think I'm hearing fluctuations in the phantom power. Turn it on and it's noisy and sometimes ramps up. Am plugging in a AKG 414 BULS mic. With vocals, the recording level seems to fade (evidenced by reduced amplitude in the waveform), th...

I'm also OS9. Bought a G4 dual 800 when it first shipped with OS9 and OSX. Am still running a digi 001. Have tons of plug-ins. Also work in Final Cut Pro. Am pretty much limited to 16 bit with PT, but at the same time, I've done some national stuff for agencies that they're thrilled with. Biggest pr...

Hi. Am getting back into recording. Use an old MIDI app to sketch instrument parts. Then transfer to pro tools to overdub live stuff like guitars, bass, vocals, etc. I'd forgotten how tedious it is to program drum tracks. Any good recommendations for sources for MIDI drum patterns? Primarily rock? L...