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inSync Tech Tips cover over 4,800 music and audio topics spanning 15 years of technological development. Look here to find answers to your tech questions, cool tips and tools for making music, and more.

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Apr 5, 2001, 12:00 AM

828/Firewire common questions.

Now that we’re shipping lots of the new MOTU 828 firewire audio interface the questions about firewire are ramping up. The most common of those... Read more »
Apr 3, 2001, 12:00 AM

More on gain staging and mixing with gain controls.

As a follow up to last week’s tip about gain structure between mixers, processors, and power amps (see inSync 3/29/01) one astute reader pointed... Read more »
Apr 2, 2001, 12:00 AM

AdvanSys SCSI card incompatible with 733 MHz G4.

“Hey, I just got one of the new 733 MHz G4 machines and when I dropped my AdvanSys SCSI card in it wouldn’t boot up. I sent the card back to the... Read more »
Mar 30, 2001, 12:00 AM

Differences between front loaded and horn loaded speaker cabinets.

“What’s the functional difference between front loaded and horn loaded speaker cabinets and why would I use one over the other?”Horn loading is... Read more »
Mar 29, 2001, 12:00 AM

Gain Structure applied in the real world

“To keep it simple, I have a mixer, an EQ, and a power amp. A mix comes into the board, I control the gain and fader of that channel to ensure... Read more »
Mar 28, 2001, 12:00 AM

Synching that old drum machine to your recorder.

Back to basics today.“This may be a basic question, but I’m new to digital recording. I’ve been using a DR 770 drum machine to record stereo... Read more »
Mar 27, 2001, 12:00 AM

Kurzweil OS/Base Rom incompatibilities.

We’ve had a number of customers run into trouble updating their Kurzweil K2600 software lately. Most of the confusion comes from a lack of... Read more »
Mar 26, 2001, 12:00 AM

Adding Optical Drives to Macs.

“Adding optical drives to Macs – what’s the answer?”First of all, great references for performing many upgrades to Macs of all varieties can be... Read more »
Mar 23, 2001, 12:00 AM

Encoding MPEG-2 Audio

Today’s question comes in from Andrew McKenna:“I’m working an audio project that will ultimately go to MPEG-2. In the past I have delivered .wav... Read more »
Mar 22, 2001, 12:00 AM

Phantom power usage on split microphone signals.

The logical next question to last week’s Tech Tip about splitting microphone signals between two mixers (see inSync 3/13/01) would have been,... Read more »

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