Archive for the 'Audio' Category

MIDI devices on a Mac OSX Garage Band and MIDI devices

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

We have some awesome USB to MIDI adapters that are low cost and work great with Garage Band. However, setting up MIDI devices on macintosh computers can be tricky if you’ve never done it before. This is a guide for setting up MIDI devices on your Mac so that you can use them with garage [...]

iQfm Review: The Best FM Transmitter… Period

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

The title of this article suggests that the iQfm is the best FM transmitter on the planet, which is a pretty bold statement. FM transmitters are crucial to many of us that have a 2003 Honda Accord and think that the factory stereo system is too pretty to rip out… because whoever was on [...]

AuzenTech compatibility with Windows Vistaâ„¢

Friday, May 18th, 2007

Yes, Vista drivers for AuzenTech’s audio cards are available.  Now you can enjoy your AuzenTech audio card and Vista at.  AuzenTech has developers working hard to perfect Microsoft Windows Vistaâ„¢ drivers for all of their sound cards for both 32-bit and 64-bit systems. 
So far they have drivers for 32-bit and 64bit operating systmes for the following products:

Auzen [...]

Mouth Watering Audio Technica Meatloaf

Thursday, March 8th, 2007

We’ve just started to carry Audio Technica products at Sewell Direct. I always love to see us get into the high-end audio equipment that I can buy for myself. Here are a couple items that I am eyeing:

 
The ATH-M30 Monitor Headphones are probably the best value for high-end Monitor Headphones. When [...]

Wireless PC to TV Interference

Friday, March 2nd, 2007

Our wireless PC to TV converter runs on the standard 2.4 GHz frequency, so occasionally we have had customers experience interference problems with other wireless devices like cordlesss phones, or wireless internet.
Jonathan was digging around in the user manual and found how to change the operating channel (within the 2.4 GHz range, there are several [...]

Audio Technica Joins Family of Products

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

Just a quick heads up to all of those that are serious about Audio gear, we just decided to get really serious. Lewis just landed a huge deal with Audio Technica, supplier of professional audio recording equipment (provider of all the audio equipment for the Grammys); a deal only rivaled by his huge deal [...]

Recording Audio To Your Computer

Monday, January 29th, 2007

Whether it be from a microphone, or directly from an instrument such as a guitar or bass, you have several choice when recording audio onto your computer. This article aims to cover the basic options for connecting and recording audio onto your computer and the different hardware solutions available.
1. Sound Card Input/Built in [...]

PC to TV Converters- The run down

Thursday, December 7th, 2006

Here’s a watered down review of several of our different PC to TV converter solutions. The converters below are organized by functionality and by price. If you have a larger screen TV with High Definition capability, you may want to consider getting an adapter that will use that same functionality. The others will work, they [...]

A/V over Cat 5

Wednesday, November 29th, 2006

Audio over Cat 5

Audio Preamps

Wednesday, August 2nd, 2006

RME gave you the Fireface 800, the king of FireWire audio interfaces. Now they present the Quadmic 4-Channel Microphone Preamp. This thing is awesome. It’s like stuffing your mic signal through a carwash with all those spinny brushes. Imagine having four channels, each with a low cut filter, phantom power, and a signal to noise [...]