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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 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 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...

When recording with my audio interface (a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2), I get spluttery noise (as opposed to the steady hiss of white noise). Normally it is not noticeable except on the input level meters on my DAW where it looks much louder than it sounds, but recently I have started processing my...

Recently I have started getting very bad problems of latency. These may be connected to the Windows update that includes the patches for Meltdown and Spectre (and possibly specifically related to the fact that I have an AMD processor), because I can't think of anything else that has changed on...

I have a very old Roland Edirol UA1-EX audio interface which is no longer supported by Roland. However I managed to get it running in "advanced" mode (as opposed to generic USB audio) on a previous laptop with Windows 10 by modifying the driver installer. I have also managed to install the...

When I record through my desktop computer (via a Scarlett 2i2 which seems to work OK when connected to my laptop), I get a lot of unwanted hisses and fizzes consistent with a ground loop. If I am just recording with my microphone or my bass plugged directly into the audio interface, the sounds...