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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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Mar 6, 2001, 12:00 AM

More questions about interfacing balanced and unbalanced gear.

“I have a small mixer I like to use for smaller gigs that does not have balanced outs. The rest of the equipment in this rig is set up for... Read more »
Mar 5, 2001, 12:00 AM

Guitar Amp Care – Use of the Standby Switch

A refresher and reminder to use that standby switch. When a tube amp is switched on it should be run in standby for at least 30 seconds,... Read more »
Mar 2, 2001, 12:00 AM

Bit Depth of effects cards in the Roland VS-2480.

It’s a little scary when we get a statistically significant number of support questions about a product that hasn’t shipped yet (and isn’t... Read more »
Mar 1, 2001, 12:00 AM

Use of different types of monitors in studios.

“In the pictures I’ve seen of studios, I’ve noticed about 3 different monitors of different sizes. Are all of these monitors nearfield or do... Read more »
Feb 28, 2001, 12:00 AM

Keeping lines balanced, or not.

“I‘ve asked others this question, but it seems to have as many answers as there are folks to ask! IF you break the “balanced” signal chain, is... Read more »
Feb 26, 2001, 12:00 AM

G4 Mac power up problems.

We’ve had a few people recently report that their G4 (PCI video) Macs have ‘died’ and will not power up. Knowing how extremely rare Mac hardware... Read more »
Feb 23, 2001, 12:00 AM

More detail on computer monitor energy saving modes

As a follow up to a past Tech Tip we did on computer monitor sleep modes (inSync 1/8/2001) an avid inSync reader has supplied us with the... Read more »
Feb 22, 2001, 12:00 AM

Follow up on the ‘magic’ of the studio

We’ve had several interesting responses to last week’s Tip (inSync 2/15/2001) on the “magic” of the recording studio. What’s interesting is that... Read more »
Feb 21, 2001, 12:00 AM

Workarounds for multitracking when short on outboard gear

“Let’s say I recorded a live band on ADAT without compressing/limiting because I’m not real sure of myself yet using a compressor and I don’t... Read more »
Feb 20, 2001, 12:00 AM

Using mixer inserts to drive a DAW without latency

Today we wish to follow up on our 2/12 Tech Tip about using mixer inserts for sends and returns from a DAW. A number of people have written in... Read more »

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