Audio Recording

FA: DOD 866 Stereo Compressor Limiter Gate..Minty!
Up for auction, a lightly used .mint condition DOS 866 series II Stereo Compressor Gate. These are way better built than the DBX 166 and 266 series, and sound sweeter Low reserve met! See and bid at: http://cgi.ebay.com/DOD-866-II-Stereo-Compressor-Limiter-Gate-Not-DBX_W0QQitemZ7397519193QQcategoryZ23793QQssPag... 14 Mar 2006 08:43

Hardwood Floors!
I'm going over the painted plywood floor in my live room with hardwood flooring. My first reason is aesthetics, but I am concerned about sound. I've seen prefinished wood online for $2 a sq. ft. but one installer says beware of crappy wood. My main concern with sound is the finish on the wood. I will be doing the c... 16 Mar 2006 15:53

Renaissance Compressor Native vs RNC/RNLA?
What is a better for $200? Keep in mind that I do not use compression pre AD. thanks. ... 13 Mar 2006 11:20

Quantegy 472 tape
http://www.quantegy.com/PDFs/specsheets/472.pdf Anyone use this tape and if so how does it compare to Maxell's XL-II tape? I'm looking for a better tape then the XL-II ones, but I'm thinking this may be wishfull thinking. ... 13 Mar 2006 12:54

JVC or Aiwa tape deck?
I noticed a Luxman K112 is available as Ive had that deck before, but there are so many better decks technically then that that Im passing on it. I'm looking for a second deck. I found a JVC TD V711 which seems to be in good condition. I remember when that deck was out and seemed to be one of JVCs better tape d... 10 Mar 2006 20:08

Emu 1616m am I kidding myself?
Hi I have just taken the plunge and bought an ACER 5022 Turion laptop (1gb ram, winXP etc), and an EMU 1616m cardbus interface. Running Reason, at an ASIO latency of 5ms, the audio is glitching all over the place, with the cpu meter going up and down like a yoyo. Take the latency up to 20ms, and all seems rea... 10 Mar 2006 04:55

Connecting a Digital8 Cam to bar's sound board
I may be video taping a friend's performance at a local country bar. Since it's a typical noisy cowboy/cowgirl type of place, we're thinking we should hook up my camcorder to the house sound board. Using a Sony Digital8 Camcorder, has an 1/8" mic-in jack, though I've never used it. Since the camera has onboard mi... 11 Mar 2006 11:40

videos
If this has been posted before, my apologies. I did search Google Groups ("videos" "rec.music.bluenote") and didn't get anything. This site has some very cool stuff: http://www.dailymotion.com/alternativa/1 Trane, Miles, Mingus with Eric Dolphy, Cannonball in 1963 (with a young Joe Zawinul), some early He... 11 Mar 2006 13:44

Advice on mixer/audio interface
I'm upgrading my home studio and I'd appreciate advice on any options I should consider for the following: I have a computer based sequencing/audio/recording setup on a Mac, but no audio interface for it yet. I've also outgrown my current mixer. So I need an audio interface and/or a mixer. Here are my needs: ... 9 Mar 2006 10:19

anyone have experience with Beat Quantizer?
I use Cubase SX 1 and I need something to clean up some drum tracks. Pro Tools has Beat Detective, and I found Beat Quantizer seems to be a comparable product. Anyone have any experiences (good or bad) with this product? ... 6 Mar 2006 12:30