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Am I hallucinating, or did the listed prices go up substantially since this thread began last month?

For running a simple video camera from a tracking room to the control room (not for recording video) just for a visual on what's happening in there. Of these choices, which is my best bet for making the 30' trip? S-Video Composite Firewire (DV) The camera has all three outputs. But I don't know whic...

Just bumping this post with a little added info... This unit isn't just an acoustic guitar preamp. That's a little deceptive, it is really a remarkably clean and neutral two-channel mic pre with parametric EQ. I have used mine numerous times to record chamber music and other live events in a room wi...

I just couldn't resist sharing this silliness with the TapeOp community, where we advocate people making their own reverbs out of garbage cans.

I thought this place would really appreciate the absurdity. For the affluent rack who has it all...

http://www.lynxstudio.com/product_detail.asp?i=52

I find this funny. Even more funny that it has it's own "spec sheet"

Not so funny is the $95 price tag.

Reminds me of the good old "pet rock" from days of yore...

End of time wasting, see ya.

I never really thought about this, but it actually has happened twice, both times from people who had zero experience with recording studios and were very unsure about it. Both times were parents hiring me to create their child's music school audition reels. When they discovered that I wasn't going ...

Man, I gotta tell you... 110 things I've done to make PC recording feasible! I did the same minimal install of XP and removed everything unneeded first thing as well. Worked pretty fine for a while too. Technically, still works fine, except this current missing MOTU midiport thing. This PC is used o...

Hey guys, Darlington - that seems like the way to go, if I really could devote the appropriate time and attention to it. And also budget for some quality tools, scopes and such. Been procrastinating on all of the above for oh, 20 years now. Gregg - I'm in this swank little pocket of suburban white f...

Hey there, I took my space echo to a dead Hi-Fi shop in Syracuse, NY (Clark Music) where a guitar player that I have known for a very long time does their repair work on stereo equipment and such. But I know him as the only guy who has MRL tape and still remembers how to maintain all this old shit t...

Hey there, I'm still on XP sp2. Although I spoke WAY too soon about all this working now. The situation is baffling to me, and seems now more likely to be a Windows problem.... one I haven't a solution to at hand. Any help would be great. I can restore full functionality to this rig now by reinstall...

Update for anyone interested: 1. If I lived in Portland, I'd be delivering beer to Carl, for the win. 2. Not a PC problem at all. MOTU hardware and drivers basically suck for PC. Suspicious of a clocking glitch as Carl suggested, I first tried clocking to a Digidesign sync unit I have laying here, a...

I want to thank you guys for spending some quality Sunday time with me pulling teeth. I'm beginning to suspect, via this thread, that the 828 interface is bad. Not sure if it's relevant, but when tracking and the glitch happens, the DAW actually draws a waveform of the glitch on each track. As if th...

Carl, I didn't see your post before I replied. I initially thought the sound was a clocking glitch too. How did you resolve your problem? To be clear, I am using 2 more devices than the MOTU. I have a Presonus Digimax for more in/out connected via lightpipe. I have an ART Digital MPA for DI use conn...

Hmm, those are good questions. Some of the diagnosing has been inhibited by not taking everything offline to move cards around and such, and by not having a second system to try things with - but here's what I can answer: This problem has always existed with this system. Unfortunately the whole thin...

Thanks man, so yeah... been trying a lot of stuff over the last year or so. Here's what I know of what you suggested to try: It does ruin all tracks when it happens. Sounds like digital crap, for sure "dzzt" Task manager doesn't show any changes that I can see, but it's hard to tell, because we only...