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Hey guys, I just finished building a room in my basement and I want to use it as a control room and a recording room. It has a cement floor but I recently covered that up with free carpet that I got from a friend, although now I am reading that a reflective floor is better for recording because...

Do they work? I have metal return and supply ducts and I would like to reduce their noise without replacing them with flex duct (hear flex collects a lot of dust and breaks down) and duct board (haven heard good things about it). You can hear what goes on in the the basement in the bedrooms...

http://www.soundproofingcompany.com/media/rsic-dc04/rsic-dc04-instructions.pdf There's a 1 inch gap, roughly, between the top of the wall frame and the bottom of the ceiling joist and I was wondering if you should put any insulation on top of the frame or if that will defeat the purpose? Just...

So I'm going to wall off a section of my basement and its going to require me to create two new interior walls to close off a corner section. I'm thinking of doing a staggered stud wall with 2 x 4's on top of a 2 x 6 base (and top frame). I'm just kind of lost on the proper spacing between the...

I'm gonna be walling off a section of my basement and I was hoping to not have to paint the new drywall because I don't care how it looks, I just care about sound. How does a painted wall affect sound? Positively, negatively, or is it neutral?

My basement isn't finished, so you can still see all the fiberglass (pretty sure it is fibre glass) insulation between the wall joists. I have a plastic sheet covering the walls and I was wondering what this insulation will do to the sound of my room because I have absolutely no idea, thanks.

Thinking of putting some roxul safe n sound between the joists of my basement but I read that that stuff is meant for the interior of walls and I don't intend on installing drywall to cover my ceiling so is there any other material you can use? Like sheets or something? Is there a health hazard...

. Ok, very cool Mjb, thank you again for your input its really helping me out. So the first picture here is looking back down the space that would be behind the monitor setup you described, and the second picture is showing that nook where I'd set up my desk. By the way all that junk lying...

Great thanks for the help man. The basement here is my only other option really, but I would have no clue about how to do the basement because there's so much storage, the walls aren't finished, it's just plastic covering insulation everywhere…etc, and the stairs are in the middle of it, it's...

My room is 9 feet by 13.5 - 14 feet (it's practically a rectangle but a bit oddly shaped in some parts. Ill attach an image of it.) I was thinking of getting a pair of yamaha hs8's but Im not sure if an 8 inch monitor is too big? I've heard some people saying that 8 inches in a small - medium...

Im recording and mixing in my spare bedroom which is about 9 feet by 13.5 - 14 feet. I attached a rough drawing of the rooms shape, basically my desk is an L-shape in the right corner of the room, in front of a window on the top wall (forgot to label that). The room is a bit oddly shaped so Im...

Just wanna avoid stressing my interface or my computer so I had a few questions: 1) Should you turn your interface on before you start up the computer or after? 2) Should you turn the interface off before or after you turn off your computer? 3) If you take a break from recording is it good to...

I got a saffire pro 40 and in the documentation it says I need to activate the plugins for it to work in my DAW (which in my case is Reaper), and I honestly have no idea how to do that. Does anyone know how to set up saffire pro properly for Reaper? Im currently looking it up on youtube and...

Is there a huge difference between them? Which one will have the least amount of latency in recording?

I read the sticky about interfaces and Im currently researching but I was wondering if I could get specific opinions and advice from you guys about interfaces that really work well with macbook pro (13 inch)? Its got the usb 3 and firewire 800 ports on it. Im going to be recording with the DAW...

What does it mean when an audio interface is bus powered? Are interfaces with bus pwoering better than audio interfaces without it?

Got a new 13 inch Macbook pro, its got the usb 3 and firewire. Im wondering what some of the best interfaces would be for it? (preferably under 800 bucks). I dont want to record drums so I dont need a ton of instrument inputs, I just wanna record vocals, bass, electric and accoustic guitar. I'll...

Hey I'm thinking of getting a new laptop and was wondering what would make a good one? I constantly read contradicting opinions about macs and pc's, some say that mac is overpriced and that pc is just as good and some say mac is the way to go. I just want to record bass, guitar, and vocals in...

I'm wanting to record on my 32 bit laptop with vista, the program I am trying to use is called Reaper. I've had a presonus audiobox usb for a while now and have been having problems with it (ex, anytime i unplug it and then i plug it back in, it won't work so i have to uninstall the drivers and...

Hi I'm trying to use a nosie gate in reaper for my electric guitar. I created a track, my electric gutiar track, then I hit the FX on the track tab and selected the VST Reagate. The problem is that from there nothing happens, the volume meters in the Reagate settings aren't flickering and I've...