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Back in the early 90's I got an insurance settlement for nearly $30k. I immediately went out and bought two of the first blackface ADAT's (WoW, the Latest Thing!), a Soundcraft Spirit board, a Sony DAT deck, some mid-level mics, a couple Aphex Expressors, a Roland R-880 reverb, and a couple other od...

It's merely a controller w/mic pre's, no software. Minimum you'd need if you went PT|Mix would be a used Core card (about $2k) and a used 888|24 8 channel I/O interface (about $1.2k), a host computer, and all the necessary cables. And that would be a bare-bones system; most people would want to add ...

My favorite Nilsson/Lennon Lost Weekend story was the one where they were in this restaurant/bar in LA, getting very obnoxious and inebriated. Lennon places a Kotex on his head. Finally, a waitress comes up to them and threatens to throw them out if they don't cool their jets. Lennon says to her, "D...

The sync'ing of analog tape and DAW or MDM is fraught with issues and is a series of compromises. In the best of cases it can work well, but when you're on the clock and working with a sync situation in tracking mode, beware of the countless times it has killed a vibe because of some sync malfunctio...

The amount of pre-pro varies from project to project, but there is always an element of it in my work. A lot of times, the arrangement needs to be tweaked in pre-pro to make a song work. After that point, we'll usually do a click track or other tempo map and rough some stuff in as a go-by. It's amaz...

Hmmm. Nobody mentioned the API 3124 in this thread. They're still making 'em! Although you have to buy them 4 channels at a time.

The 3124M is doubly handy, as it serves as a 4-channel submixer as well as 4 discrete mic pre's.

http://www.apiaudio.com/3124.htm

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