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Hey folks, I was recently put in charge of a college radio station's recording/live studio that's been in somewhat of a state of disrepair over the past few years, and the wiring hasn't been redone since the late 60s, although the old equipment from that era is long gone. I'm looking to pick up some...

You should make an XLR patchbay for your mic signals and preamp inputs. Then, use a TRS patchbay for your inserts and compressors. Alternatively, and probably better, you could just add inputs for your external preamps to your wall plate in the tracking room and then just have the preamp outputs on...

Hey all, I'm hoping you might be able to recommend a good way of setting up patchbays for a radio live/recording studio. We currently have a 16 channel Ramsa console with the direct outs running to 16 channels of converters to ProTools. We have 16 XLR inputs on wallplates in the live room than feed ...

For what its worth, I listened to the F5s before buying my A7x's. Clearly these two speakers are in very different price ranges, but even compared to other speakers around $500, the F5 did not sound good. They had none of the clarity or extended frequency response of my A7x's. The Yamaha HS series i...

Slightly more expensive than some of the recommendations, but I'd definitely recommend checking out the Adam A_x range. I have the A7x's and they sound great. If you want smaller, maybe look at the A5x. Also worth checking out are the new JBLs- they're really cheap and sound excellent. The Equators ...

It seems like a laptop would be fine for mobile recording. You don't have the live-or-die aspect of a live recording, and a little downtime probably isn't a big deal. That was my thought as well- especially as most of what I'll be doing is tracking drums separate from guitars, separate from vocals,...

The HD24XR is ideal in a fixed studio/overdub enviroment. It also does well live. Think of it as a reliable tape recorder that uses a hard drive. I ran mine against a Radar Nyquist and my HD24XR had better low end depth and clearer top end transient details. They are not too far apart in design as ...

I think, based on a lot of reading this evening and some consideration of what I want to get out of this rig, that I'll stick to the rackmount preamp idea and hold off on a console till I have a more permanent space to work in. It seems like too much hassle to cart around a console, and there's pret...

After seeing countless computers go down for no reason just before or in the middle of tracking live shows, I'm never using a computer for location recording without a 100% redundant backup again. I heartily endorse the HD24/HD24XR idea - however, like you said, it's definitely better for tracking ...

Well they call the HD24XR poor man's Radar...not exactly the same but not far off either. I've used Radar before and as a DAW it doesn't really do it for me...and a Radar system would be larger and more fragile to travel with. As for compressors I would only carry with me things that I would use a ...

The reason I got the HD24XR was because I found one really cheap...like $600...and its very good conversion...and it works well for transferring from 2" machines, which I also do a decent amount of, and it can record at the same time as its feeding my computer. Not only that but all the I/O is on T...

Giving band members individual headphone mixes is generally more effort than I would want to deal with on the remote recording level, but you can, like I have...pick up a Furman HDS-6 and a few headphone boxes and then at least everyone gets individual level control, if not mix control, for their h...

Thank you so much for all your responses. I'd been looking at the HD24 as an option, but I really don't know too much about it. It definitely seems like a different kind of setup than 16 channels of convertors into my MacBook. I've never had any issues with my computer flaking out on a job, but I al...

Hey all, Right now I'm an intern at a local studio, play in a band, do live sound around town, and am also a college student. While I love working out of nicer studios with HD rigs and racks of outboard, most bands I encounter locally don't have the budget to track in a bigger studio, so I'm working...

If it was up to me...rather than replace your 003 right away I'd look at getting some external conversion fed in to their for now, which you'll be able to use later...and then when the 003 is really obsolete find something else with it. I'm definitely thinking of doing that. I have some mics and pr...