Recent content by Rich_S

Nektar Impact LX25+ MIDI Controller for sale. 25 full-size velocity-sensitive keys, 8 trigger pads for drums, transport controls for your DAW. Like-new condition, in original box. Used only once or twice in smoke-free home studio. I used it with Reaper with no problems, but it is...

Has anybody here heard of, dealt with, or purchased from these folks? https://www.soundproofcow.com/ I'm planning on building some bass traps for my small studio/office in the coming months, and I guess the Facebook algorithm intercepted my brain waves. Their ad just popped up in my FB feed...

Is the Safe N Sound stiff enough to stand on its own just wrapped in fabric, or does it need to be framed?

Having the new distribution panel installed in or near your studio space is a good thing. It means the wiring to your audio gear can be short, and the ground connections will have a short, direct path to the ground rod. That way, your gear has an easy path to drain away noise. When the...

The mirrored closet doors are going to get gone. I think I'll replace them with normal wood sliding doors and hang an absorber panel on the outer one. Opening the inner door will expose the "diffusers" hidden behind (i.e. plastic tubs of cables and stomp boxes, and overflow from my wife's...

Background: Mrs_S and I just moved to our "forever" home, downsizing from 2,100 to 1,400 sq ft. I put off doing any serious room treatment at our old house, because I knew we'd be moving in a few years. Now, I've settled into my new space, and we ain't NEVER moving again. My "studio" isn't...

I'm starting to work (in my brain, at least) on treating my "studio" (aka family room, aka home office). However, we're empty nesters now, and we may be moving to a smaller place in a year or two. So, I don't want to go drilling a lot of holes in the walls, just to have to patch them all...

Yes, it's another "which monitors" thread. Before I get started, please lay off the "room treatment" treatises. I know my room needs treatment and will post about it elsewhere. This is my monitors thread. The last kid's off to college, and I'm starting to have a bit more time for recording...

No noobie questions today, just a story with a happy ending. My daughter is a senior in high school, working on a senior capstone project of composing and recording a short piece of music in the fantasy film/video game genre. Last spring, she conducted her school choir in a short a cappella...

I got an email last night from Sweetwater, containing Mitch Gallagher's demo of the new PreSonus FaderPort. I watched it, and thought it does a lot of useful/cool stuff. I've been thinking for a while that I ought to invest in a small control surface; it seems as though it would make a lot of...

I should mention that I don't intend to sync the audio to the video. If I record the audio separately, it will just be to have a better recording than what the camcorder's getting. On second thought, if I DID decide to sync them, I assume I should run the Scarlett at 48 kHz? Here's a snip...

My high school junior (who wants to compose video-game music someday) has composed a piece which her choir director has agreed to perform at their spring "pops" concert next week with my daughter conducting. Am I proud? Insanely so. She was asking me tonight if, instead of the usual cellphone...

A bunch of my gear is DIY. Here are a few of my favorite pieces. My clone of a Marshall 18 Watter, built on a converted Bogen CHB-20A PA amp chassis, and done up in the 2-tone-blue style of the old Univox Group B amps from the '70s. More Univox: this started as a non-working chassis from and...

I just finished this today: I built it on the cheap, largely out of leftover lumber that was taking up space in the garage. The desk top and shelf are made from OSB underlayment left over from the "water heater failed and melted the bathroom floor" remodeling job. I prettied up the OSB by...

Hi, all. I'm starting a new thread here after realizing my daughter's drop-outs are not from a lack of computer horsepower, they seem to be caused by problems between Reaper and her DSK VST instrument plugins. (Here's the old thread, but it's largely redundant with this one at this point.)...