Jim Tavegia

I looked at all the settings just like I have many times before. Today, the FCA 202 input mixer is showing up. It never did until today and I have looked at those vol control settings until I was nearly blue in the face. Maybe computers and black magic are strange bedfellows, but this one stumps me as, if it goes away, I will not know what to do to fix it. Time to buy a new magic wand. Thanks for the post. I was able to get my last HS band project into my desktop and burned cds just fine. Whew! Jim

I have enjoyed the Sony 7506s for ($99 US) and the Sennheiser HD 280 for the same money. Both are sealed and comfortable and used by many recording engineers. The new Senns are the HD380s and are about $170 US and supposed to be an upgrade. I have not heard them, but would not be afraid to buy site unseen. I use Senn mics and have not had a bad experience with their gear. Open back cans my choce would be the Grados; 60s and 80s at under $100 a pair. I own both of them, but you must buy the oversized ear cushions or your ears will hurt after a short time. I like the Grados just as much, but for most people they may be a little brighter, but at my age of 63 that is not a bad thing.

I built up a desktop using an ASUS P5B mother board and 2 1 gig sticks of DDR2 ram. I had local shop do a clean Win XP install. I am using an older Behringer FCA 202 firewire box that I had sitting around. In playback mode works great with 44.1 and 96k files which is all I do. I had not planned on doing any line in mixing into this desktop as it was mostly for creating school lesson plans and other internet work. I thought I would input some audio from my DAT from a recent recording session and realized that I did not have the line in mixer setting from the win vol control. The Behringer does not have a input mixing console. The win vol control does control all the wav out from my DVD burner and from WMP11. It will also playback files from Sony Sound Forge (2496 & 16/44.1) that I use for mastering tracks. Even though the Sound Forge shows the FCA 2o2 in the recording and playback pulldown menu, I have no input from the Behringer breakout box. Any assistance is appreciated.