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As part of the acoustic treatment of my very reverberant live-work space (brick walls and ceiling, concrete floor) I need to install some acoustic pinboards. I am well aware that I will also need plenty of bass traps to dampen the lower frequencies. But that is something I will need to deal with...

I do like the natural reverb of my place. If I sing a folk song, which I do now and then, it sounds not at all bad. But as soon as there's any bass, things get nasty.

Thanks everyone! Loads of interesting ideas here to help me on my way.

The short section of wall behind the digital piano is the only cavity wall in the space. All the others are solid brick. And as I said before, the floor is solid concrete and the ceiling is vaulted brick.

That's interesting. I've actually got a green cloth, a white one and a black one. I assumed too that even the three cloths together wouldn't amount to much acoustically, but I will give it a try.

Thanks for the further info. When you say I should pack the corners with something dense and heavy, are you talking about the kind of bass traps that you can buy from music shops, or are you suggesting a more homemade solution? I am also wondering if I could use floor-standing absorber panels...

Thanks for all your replies so far. The space is around 6m × 4m and is part of a larger space that includes a short 2m wide corridor leading to the kitchen. The thing between the round windows is some kind of square steel bar. It is flat against the wall. Thanks for the idea about the...

I have just moved into a studio flat in a complex of live-work spaces for artists in a converted brewery. It is very reverberant and, I think, quite challenging to turn into a recording space, especially as I want the space to perform several other functions as well, and as I also don't want to...

I've been looking at the socket tester in more detail and now I'm getting more confused. The socket tester looks like this: After testing it in the (French-style) wall sockets, I tested it on a schuko extension lead, both ways round, and each way all three lights came on, which it says means...

I have two computers, a desktop and a laptop, and I have two audio interfaces, a Scarlett 2i2 and a very old and cheap Edirol UA-1EX which I'm using to help diagnose the problems I have been having with the 2i2. I also have two problems, and I'm not sure if they are related or not. The first...

My bass has started sending a fuzzy buzzy crackly sound to my amp, mainly when I play an open D string, but also to some extent when I play D on the A string or on the G string (i.e. an octave up), or I play an open G string. It sounds a bit like the sound is playing through a broken speaker...

Recently I have been finding that my ASIO keeps stopping dead for no apparent reason. This has been happening since Windows 10 was upgraded to 1903, but I don't know if this is a coincidence. This happens both when I am using Reaper and when I am using Guitar Rig in standalone mode. What happens...

My Scarlett 2i2 has developed fairly bad coil whine. Sometimes a quick tap on the top of the case will make it quieten down quite a bit. And I usually find that pressing my finger hard on a certain point on the back of the case reduces the noise, and occasionally that effect lasts for quite some...

When my audio interface (Scarlett 2i2) is connected to any device with a power supply independent of my computer, such as my bass amp, it captures ringing, buzzes and squeaks like this . The bass amp is earthed, but I get the same thing when I attach devices which are not earthed, such as my...

Thanks for all your comments. I've tried attaching the audio interface to my laptop running on battery power with no cables connecting it to anything else and I still get the same problem. I've discovered that the problem is much worse when my microphone is connected (Rode M3), even when it is...