A Non O Miss wrote:Pepsi or Coke.....SURPRISE!!!

Is one of those much more expensive and heavily promoted as the luxury brand? I personally dislike both types of sugary water.

Okay well a replacement keyboard direct from apple is £29... doesn't seem too bad really. Maybe next time when one of your novice apple owning friends is about to spend £250 on a dvd replacement, tell them to type it into google so they can get it all done for £100. I'd definitely do that for my fr...

Given my personal experience with many Firewire interfaces [ RME Fireface, Saffire 26 i/o, and the Lexicon Ionic FW recently ] I have to say the MR816 has been a treat. Worthy of the investment on many levels IMHO. Tim The Fireface is the only one of those I know well. What didn't you like about it?

[quote="johnny hOkay well a replacement keyboard direct from apple is £29... doesn't seem too bad really. Maybe next time when one of your novice apple owning friends is about to spend £250 on a dvd replacement, tell them to type it into google so they can get it all done for £100. I'd definite...

There's absolutely nothing "musical" about fiddling around on the floor taking out bits of ram, resolving irq conflicts, running virus checkers and installing firewalls. Nothing at all. There is no comparison with guitarists who can't tune their guitars by ear. Anything which gets in the ...

in the spirit of retracking this thread - i will now quote Dale Cambell, the first respondent to this epic Computers built from 1997-1999 are best, .. that sorts it really - does it not? Lord help us, are we now getting into the magic of obsolete computers? Anyone for gold-plated oxygen-free MIDI c...

Stan wrote:

Exalted Wombat wrote:I use mostly my brain, coupled with near enough 50 years of training and experience.

You are a rare breed Exalted Wombat.

Yup. You can't get me at Tesco or Sainsbury's. Only Waitrose.

"You can build a PC for thruppence that can bury a Mac". Which is great if you know how to build a PC and maintain it and fix it and fiddle with it and optimise it and know where to get the best components, etc., but, hard though it may be to believe, not everyone (in fact, very few) know...

I use mostly my brain, coupled with near enough 50 years of training and experience. Next in importance come my fingers and a Kurzweil PC3X keyboard. Then whatever recording and editing gear seems the best choice. It used to be an Atari plus multitrack tape. There were a tricky few years when the ad...

There are two headphone outputs on the Focusrite Saffire Pro 40. There seem to be comprehensive routing options allowing you to set up further monitor mixes, but these will have to be routed to Line Out sockets, which will need further amplification to drive headphones. You may find it more convenie...

A PC of course can be as expensive as you want it to be. Though it's becoming frustratingly difficult to specify a sensible DAW (leaving out the soundcard, which would have to be added to either platform) costing more than £1000. All the bragging rights go to Mac buyers in this department

Google "SM57 resistor". The 57 has been around a long time, from when inputs typically had a rather lower impedence than today's do. Paralleling a resistor across its output certainly changes the sound with many preamps. Only you can say if you consider it an improvement. The only downsid...