haven't played with him a ton, but the games I do remember him ringing or one of us trialing, I always remember hooli making playing the game a lot of fun.

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If you are serious about printing these, then the first thing you will want to do is find an IPS monitor in your area. Universities (especially with digital design/art programs) will likely have a few in a library or lab on campus that you can probably use if you make some phone calls. Bigger city libraries might also have them, especially if they have a technology lab. IPS monitors give much truer colour to real life and if properly calibrated can be trusted to give a good representation of how the final print will look.

When you are happy with how it looks, save it in a lossless format (psd is usually fine), but the printing company you choose might have different requirements. It used to be that you had to have everything in CMYK, but for art prints, you will likely be printing digitally anyway so RGB with an integrated colour profile (I like Adobe RGB, you can choose it when editing a document's settings in photoshop) will probably do fine, though ask your printer if they have a colour profile you can import into photoshop, some do and that will help you get even closer results from monitor to printer.

Find a local printer in your area, smaller shops do exist and they will be easier to work with for your needs than a huge production company (that might require you to get so many hundreds or thousands of prints). You will probably be looking for giclee prints, which I have no experience with at all. But if you find a smaller shop, they will be more than happy to help you make decisions and guide you through the process. If there are any art schools or colleges/unis with an art program in your area, ask them if they know any good local printers that do the kind of work you are looking for. I know a lot of universities have a couple of print shops around them that take care of banners, fliers etc for students that may be able to do what you are looking for.

GL, I like the picture, but dont really have any feedback. I probably wouldn't buy because its not my sort of thing, but you are really good :3

basically this. my suggestion was if you are really interested in getting serious with your audio gear. If you really just want to use mumble/skpe, then modmic, the cheap logitech desk mic that was making the rounds or something similar is perfect. I like the modmic idea cause you can stick that baby on a nice pair of headphones (maybe some audiotechnica's or similar :> ) and you have a better sounding headset (mic and sound) than you can buy with reasonable quantities of money.

150 USD or so.

I meant a microphone preamp.

If you want someone to cut, grade and encode videos for youtube, thats a pretty big part of what I do for extv now, so I can help you out. lmk.

it was 92 pounds per head for i46. Thats just entry.

honestly, if you are going to be spending all that money on a snowball, you might as well do it right with a proper external preamp or mixer with a preamp and a real microphone. Microphones built for computer use are stupidly overpriced for how terrible they sound, and there is no reason to get one now that mixers are starting to have usb outs.

http://www.amazon.com/Behringer-302USB-Premium-5-Input-Interface/dp/B005EHILV4/

is, from what I hear, a great little mixer. I have a larger version without USB that I attach to my computer using a behringer usb soundcard. This gives you the advantage of getting a decent soundcard as well, since you can plug your phones right on in and they sound pretty damn good. You can also listen to anything with RCA audio out and even get that shit right into your computer.

Add to that what is now my favorite microphone under 30:
http://www.amazon.com/Behringer-XM8500-Dynamic-Cardioid-Microphone/dp/B0002KZAKS/

it sounds just like the classic and timeless shure sm58 (the goto choice for eXtv audio guru and awesome guy Airon), maybe a little more output, but easily solved with a little fiddling on the mid band knob on the mixer I linked (bump it up, not down). Its basically designed for vocals (though being very versatile, I used it to catch the clickity clack of a das keyboard for a promotional video) and sounds exactly the same as the $100 SM58, especially through mumble/skype.

Just food for thought. Might be a bit more hassle than you want, but keep in mind that once you are thinking about throwing down for a snowball, you might as well explore other options at this price range, even if not directly designed for this kind of application. The one issue is that mics like this will pickup your keyboard if you have a mechanical. But angling it the right way (up and away from the keyboard, towards your face) and playing with the gain will help you overcome that.

hope it helped!

could be a cord issue, but could also be a driver problem.

run devmgmt.msc and go to the audio section and uninstall the driver for your device. Plug it back in and see if it works (if it is built into the motherboard/case, you might have to restart). If that doesn't work, uninstall all audio drivers and restart again.

how is the device plugged in? is it USB or is it straight on the motherboard? you may need to reinstall your chipset drivers.

Ummmm, guys, I think we are forgetting someone

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might want to add a contact link.

kbnhud is working
as is pvhud.

I might end up going to this, from the indianapolis area. I have a car that can seat 4 with more than enough room for everyone to bring a computer and a monitor. If anyone wants to carpool and is willing to chip in some for gas, I would be more than happy to have some company! It's a 15 hour drive, but that's not really too bad if we stop at every major city and have a good time with it.

also, LANs in the Indy area. There is a nice one up in michigan, but the biggest in 5 hours or so is the IU LANWar in bloomington, I am on the officer staff and it is about a 500 man LAN, though we are certainly trying to make it bigger :)

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