Talk:Outboard gear

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I think this article is informitive, true, and gives any reader a stronger understanding of the use of the term 'outboard gear/equipment' when relating it to audio recording. Please consider letting it sit as others may add to it and expand upon it.

Digital vs Analog, Effects Units

I tried to make this article something that someone who's never recorded music might have a chance of understanding. It still has a ways to go. I think there should be clarification as to which outboard gear is analog and which is digital. Also, please don't just list things like "m-box" as examples of outboard without some explanation of what they are. As a non-musician I haven't the slightest clue what an "m-box" is, what it does, and in what situations you'd use it.

Finally I have a sneaking suspicion that this page is redundant, and that "outboard" and effects units are the same thing. If they aren't could somebody please clarify this.

Just to reiterate: please write for the average person, not audio n00bs who already know all this stuff. Anything you write in audio n00blish will be translated into English.--Atlantictire (talk) 04:50, 22 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]