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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...

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...

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.)...

#4 Kid has been playing around with Reaper and some DSK Orchestra plugins. She's writing new-age, orchestral kinda stuff, along the lines of the fantasy games and anime movies she likes. Her first experiments went well, but as she added a few more tracks (a half-dozen or so) she started...

I have a 16-year-old who wants to run before she can walk with regard to composing and recording. As I was advised in this old thread, I downloaded some of DSK's free plugins for her. Today she came to me looking for a certain type of orchestral percussion, saying she didn't have anything like...

The hard drive in my daughter's laptop started throwing up "imminent failure" messages, so I blew most of my weekend figuring out what we needed to replace it, selecting and ordering a drive, backing up the system image, creating a repair disc, etc. Ugh. This of course reminds me that the HD...

My 15 y.o. daughter wants to start recording the music she makes up. She's a pianist, but she's talked about making it "sound like an orchestra'. Her interests lie in the new-agey sort of music she hears as soundtracks to video games and anime cartoons. My experience to date has been all...

I have a few old cassettes around, demo tapes that I or my friends played on in the '80s. I'd like to transfer them to digital through my Scarlett 2i4. So, I dug out my old Denon DRM-710 cassette deck. I bought it new in the late '80s IIRC, it was at the time a mid-to-high-end consumer grade...

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Zoom HD8 recorder in very good condition. Used very little, spent most of its life in its original box. Includes power supply, manuals, and built-in CD burner. $140 PayPal shipped to the CONUS. I will happily ship to other locales, just PM me for rates.

I just inherited a Dell Inspiron 1545 from my daughter. She switched to a Chromebook because never says "no" to any little thing that pops up on her screen, and the computer was basically useless because it was all junked up with malware and other useless stuff. It took me all day to get it...

A recent Internet search revealed that a singer I recorded a demo with 25-ish years ago died last year. This put in me in a nostalgic mood, and made me realize our old demo should be better preserved that a couple cassettes sitting in my desk drawer. Better yet, I'm wondering if modern...