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8 New Channels: Slaving an M-Audio ProFire 2626 to a Focusrite Saffire Pro 40

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Using the Focusrite Saffire Pro 40 with M-Audio 2626 as Slave If you have an old micpreamp / soundcard which no longer has driver updates – or is Firewire 400, or which Mac updates have rendered obsolete, here’s an idea that worked for me. An ADAT-slaved micpreamp  will allow you to use your up-to-date 8 …

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The Recording of Hendrix “All Along the Watch Tower”

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This very cool article by Ray Padgett in his forthcoming book, includes recordings of early takes (including a wasted Brian Jones playing piano very badly), and Hendrix’ guitar stems. Jimi spent months agonising over ever bit of the track.  He started recording just drums and acoustic guitars, with Dave Mason on 12-string.  It was all rather struggle, …

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