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funny you should bring this up. I just ran into this on friday. I was reading through the phat conductors midi beat juggling tutorial and could not get clip triggers to work through the iac. I gave up pretty quickly but I will do more detailed testing tomorrow and let you know what I find. In any ...

heh I'm sorry I mean mixing as in mixdows/mastering. I've been djing for quiet a while on decks and in live (since live 4) :p I've just started to produce my own tracks though and I'm pretty sure the best way to learn is absolutley by spending some time in a recording studio working with an engineer ...

I am learning the ways of the mix and since I do not have access to a real studio and probably never will, I need to train my ears somehow. I read lots of tutorials on mixing and have studied much of the concepts behind it but all this really means nothing without actually hearing some shitty mixes ...

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"IE, if you're rendering a 24bit file, and the master fader is set to -48dBFS (just for example), your song will only ever be using at most 18bits (6dB equals 1 bit of resolution in 24bit audio). Even though the final file is still a 24bit file. "

Wait, I did this calculation and I got 16bits? Am I ...

I'm pretty new to all this and I'm doing my best to follow along but I have a question about clipping the channels. Tell me where I'm mistaken:

Based on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headroom

I was under the impression that a signal at 0dBFS was full use of your headroom. A signal greater than ...

yea, I have a macbook (which I just bought a few days ago) haven't had a chance to use iac yet but I hear thats pretty much the same thing and people use it as a loopback. let me know if that works, i'll give it a shot on my laptop too.

I don't think you can do that without using some sort of midi loopback device. I use midiox. Maybe I'm totally wrong...

any recommendations on a good mic for the m-audio microtrack?

I'm new to Mac (but am quite intimate with bsd/linux) and it has been pretty sweet learning a new OS. These sound like great recommendations. Kent, you mention turning off Mail.app, etc...How can I see what is currently turned on (besides ps axu in a terminal heh) and how do I turn it off? I already ...

I recently read an article where Noisia said they use these...who knows if thats true or if they were just dropping a plug for a friend but I was going to give these a shot tonight and see how they sound. Anyone have any expirience with them?

Does anyone have any recommendations for a good percussion mic? I find myself wanting to record lots of random percussive sounds (i.e. banging on hand railings, metal AC ducts, 50 gallon drums, etc) and I'm not sure what mic would be best. I would probably lug my macbook around with me in a backpack ...