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That helps a bit, but nowhere near enough to make the recording usable sadly!

When recording guitars near my computer, there is a clear 1KHz signal being recorded via the guitar pickups. It attenuates if I move sufficiently far away from my computer, it's louder on my bass guitar (single coil pickup) than my normal guitar (active humbuckers), and it disappears if I turn...

Some of that stuff is intrinsic to being able to put the computer to sleep; all you can hope is that the hardware all supports it. (I notice you're from Northampton; I grew up in Dallington. Small world.)

Sleep mode does several things: 1: leaves all your programs in exactly the state you left them when you turned the PC off, 2: saves a lot of energy and thus money, 3: speeds startup times from a minute to a second, 4: is a lot quieter when the machine is off than when it is on. If those things...

One big problem I have with the 2496 drivers is that they don't cope with the machine entering Sleep Mode. Sometimes you can fix it by restarting the Windows Audio service but it usually involves restarting any apps that use audio too. I know it wouldn't be a problem with the audio apps as they...

I'm a musician and a computer game player and I'm looking to upgrade my sound card in the near future. For the last 10 years or so I've enjoyed using the M-Audio Audiophile 2496 PCI card, but I want to upgrade for 2 reasons: firstly, it's old, the drivers don't work well on modern systems, and...

With Sonar you need to back up the project files and the project audio but you don't need the picture cache - it's purely there for optimisation.

Yes, deleting or severely reducing the contents of the Picture Cache folder can have a massive effect on Sonar performance. As the name suggests it's just a cache, where it stashes images of the audio waveforms in your projects, supposedly to make drawing them faster. Unfortunately when the...

So it pretty much has to be done with a compressor that has a pretty distinctive colouring to the sound?

Yeah, but what I'm saying is that mixing your 30:1 compressed send with the original signal 50/50 (for example) would seem to be broadly equivalent to having a 15:1 compressor insert, because your original material can be considered to have a 1:1 compressor on it. You smash half the signal, then...

I do. I use parallel compression on my snare and toms. It works fine but I'm not convinced it sounds any different to just having a compressor as an insert with a long attack. It just works out more convenient this way as I only need one plugin for it.

Not to split hairs too much but what are you calling 'density'? A simple transparent compressor will push peaks above the threshold down by a certain amount proportional to the ratio, and that's it. Add that back to the original signal and compensate for the gain and what you should get is an...

I know what the method involves. I am just saying that the signal would seem to end up pretty much the same. When we talk about 'punch' we usually mean high dynamic range on the transients. And a longer attack does this too, letting the transient slip through before the gain reduction starts.

Find your Picture Cache folder and delete files from there. (Look in the options/settings dialog to find out where that folder is.) I suggest deleting everything over a year old, or 3/4 of the contents, whichever is more. Any picture cache files that are actually needed will be regenerated when...

I hope this doesn't count as hijacking this thread, but it seemed relevant so I'll ask: isn't parallel compression doing pretty much the same thing as just having a compressor with a slow attack and adding gain compensation? If you assume a compressor with no significant colouration then surely...

If you were to say that it's next to impossible to remove the tonal colouring applied by the microphone, or an existing preamp, then that's fair enough, but a preamp is just a signal processor like any other, and if its characteristics can be understood, it can be simulated digitally. People...

I would also suggest getting 2 hard drives rather than 1. If you have a large sample library or other static data which you'll be reading during tracking, it can theoretically make a big difference to not have to split a single drive between your recorded audio and streaming in sample data.

I intend to record some vocals in the near future - some in a pop/rock style, some in the aggressive heavy metal styles, for what it's worth. I have a Samson USB condenser microphone, which though not exactly top of the line, seems to work ok and has a fairly flat response. I have no experience...