Mojave MA-200 or Bock 195. The Bock is solid state, but you would never know it. Whether or not something has a tube in it or not is an unreliable indicator of how it will actually sound. By the way,...

If you don't like bright/hyped, stay away from just about all the condensers in that price range, including the Blue mics. It generally takes more than your budget to get a condenser mic that's not...

I would skip the KSub for your applications. I've used it, and in small rooms it can be okay, but it's not really designed to get up and go and move a lot of air, and the bandpass design makes its...

If you're going to truly upgrade and you're in the price range of the Peavey SP stuff, I'd skip over that, the Carvin, and the Behringer altogether and look at QSC KW, K, or JBL PRX600 self-powered...

Why do you need a patch bay for anything? Just plug it into the mixer. It's one cable, and it's not like you're going to be switching it in and out during the show.

If you're feeding an amplifier...

Yep, use the S/PDIF out on the 002 into the DAC-1.

Not especially, but it can work in a pinch as long as you're not after room-shaking low end. Really doesn't do a very good job of reproducing the bottom octave of the instrument. If you use it in...

I'm biased as a Mac user, but I think many things run better on a Mac, Pro Tools included, unless you're savvy enough as a PC power user to really configure the system optimally in terms of hardware...

The big question is probably whether "fantastic" is really a noticeable step up from "really good" for most listeners. Having owned an 896HD and also having worked with or owned a bunch of Apogee,...

VRX isn't a line array. Doesn't act like one, even though it sort of looks like one. Useful little buggers in ballrooms and other typical short-throw wide-angle apps. The Peavey may sound great, but...

I'd be buying a used example of something better before I bought a new Behringer of any sort. I just had to use 2442 recently for something. It really didn't sound good- thin and brittle- and then...

You can easily run AES over fiber for very long distances (miles and miles) with the right line drivers.

Maybe. But what's really important for a home/project studio is: What environment makes YOU feel inspired? That's really the most important thing.

"Lightly weighted" should probably be interpreted as meaning "unweighted," although I haven't played the exact instrument in question. The total weight of the YPG535 would indicate that the keybed is...

The Bose L1 is a good smaller-venue setup for giving the sound some lift- easy to use and natural. Whether it would work for you I guess depends on how much gain you need from it. It does...

Not sure what you are getting at here- are you looking for some suggestions for mics and compressors and such for a drumkit session to go with the Toft and Apogee?

You need to go into Applications-Utilities-AudioMIDI Setup, and change your defaults there. I'm away from my studio computer, but there's a setting where you can change the default I/O used for...

I think you're on the right track. I have the unique perspective of living on both sides of this equation- having been a FOH engineer in some decently larger-scale situations, and frequently being on...

Biggest things with sound isolation are mass and decoupling. Period. There is no magic product that gets around this. Probably the easiest/cheapest way to improve things is to put up some resilient...

On the 003, the ADAT channels are 9-16, while the built-in preamps and/or analog line inputs operate on channels 1-8. So the OctoPre or similar on the ADAT inputs would add inputs, not replace the...

Specs looks rather good. Honestly, I think the main issue you're going to have is name and brand recognition- I've never heard of them, and I install PA systems professionally, so I'm not sure others...

Yamaha's commercial line is a whole different (and better) animal than their MI line, which this mixer is part of. I'm not really a huge fan of the cheaper Yamaha boards- some of them really don't...

Your equipment setup and band configuration is honestly very simple. Unless you're looking for recallability of settings for specific venues, I'd just invest in a few good-quality graphic EQ's. If...

The Dante cards are a great option, because on the other end (at your PC), you only need Audinate's Virtual sound card software ($149) and an ethernet port. No audio interface and less complexity,...

I'm not seeing conversion on your list, so I'm assuming you're keeping the MOTU as your conversion?

If that's the case, I'd do something about that before I worried about a master clock and...