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I second the notion of ignoring the wattage. It has very little to do with the apparent loudness of an amp. I'd say the most important things are: 1) Speaker cabinet type - get a 4x12 that matches the nominal output impedance of the amp, and get one that is sensitive. Go to Guitar Center or whatever...

If you want to add a noise gate to your pedalboard, check out the Rocktron Hush pedal. I have an old Rocktron rack unit and I couldn't believe it when I first set up the Hush on that. Somehow it just works better than a normal gate. If you want to stop the noise at its source, well... You could go f...

I'm going to second that. I also built and isolation cabinet and it sounded terrible. AC/DCs cabinets are probably the size of vocal booths or larger. I was trying to build one for quiet recording in an apartment. I found a DMC Cab-Tone and a THD Hot Plate were the best combination for that. I wish ...

The answer to your question is "Yes", but there are some addenda, quid-pro-quos, and provisos involved. Check out the entire chapter devoted to Mac/PC and cross-version compatibility in the ProTools 7.0 reference manual. It's chapter 10 starting on page 141. You can download the manual from www.digi...

Ok, I got your answer, but before you get the answer to your problem, you'll have to listen to my story. That's the price, sorry. On with the story: So I read your post and I'm thinking "Hey, I've got Vegas 4.0 and a drum machine. And I have no idea what this grid thing is he's talking about, maybe ...

Running an external clock can significantly improve the sound quality of your bounces. The 001 has no wordclock input, but you can run another sync source in such as ADAT from a lightpipe interface (Behringer, Focusrite, Presonus< Mackie Onyx, etc) THAT IS clocked to a better wordclock device and y...

optical storage (CD-R, DVD-R) should be your dead last resort because what you burn is not necessarily exactly what is on your hard drive. If you can send a firewire hard drive, that is best. Todd Wilcox So have we determined that this is shiser-von-crapovich? Well.. I'm not sure if I'd say "confir...

After failing to find anything conclusive on the web, I decided there was no reason why I couldn't do a real-world test just to see what would happen. I took a 320 MB file, copied it to an internal hard drive, then to a USB memory stick, then I burned it to a CD-R using Roxio at 48x (it actually bur...

You're correct! Bad science! Errors are corrected for in data discs, and verified bit for bit via a checksum after being burned. If you want the hard science, it can be found in Principles of Digital Audio by Ken Pohlmann. Block error rate can be counted, and is corrected for. If you take a DVD, bu...

Also, never ever touch the mouse while recording. Once you put your unit in record, don't even look at it until the passage is done. As the computer will make ANY mouse activity immediate priority, that puts A-to-D on the back burner. I think that might be a little bit of overkill. Your host CPU is...

Wow, and I thought Expand! had more sounds than I would ever use! I don't know of any expansion sounds at this time. Expand! is only a couple months old so they might not have released anything else yet. If you're looking for good drum sounds, you should consider a dedicated drum virtual instrument....

If you're sending something to a mastering engineer, a good idea would be to call the place and ask them what they prefer. In terms of digital audio, wave, broadcast wave, and AIFF are all the same technology, and should all sound identical when played back on the same hardware. Those are definitely...

I'm a little confused on this topic, but I read recently that the internal mix bus on PTLE is a 32-bit float bus whereas the HD one is a 48-bit integer bus. So that might make a difference in what you're hearing.

Todd Wilcox

I have my DAW on the Internet and it's never concerned me (I'm a professional IT consultant). Here's the big catch, though: I don't have Anti-virus software on any of my computers at home. I'm confident that based on the way I use the Internet (hardly ever and that's to get software updates from wel...