Recent content by TalismanRich

The 1600 mkII has USB, so I'm guessing that you can export from the Korg to a computer. That was a big advantage of the Yamaha AW1600 over the 16G. When I transferred a practice session from my AW16G some years back. I had to export tracks individually on CD-RWs. They were too big to...

A good basic laptop with 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD is the starting point. 12th to 14th Gen Intel Core 5 or 7 processors will be plenty. AMD Ryzen 7s would be an alternative. I've been using Lenovo for years. My daughter has HP laptops. Most current laptops have little if any...

I have both, but 90% of my time is spent on the computer. If I record with my Zoom R-24, the tracks go straight into the computer for mixing. And like Rob, I usually limit myself to the stock plugins from Reaper. REAeq, REAcomp and REAverb with the Bricasti IRs are my mainstays. There...

If the noise changes as you move around, electromagnetic interference is the root problem. You have two choices, eliminate the interference or shield the guitar. Move the guitar around until you find where the interference is coming from and address that. When the noise get loud, that's...

Are thumbs fingers? :unsure: It's just semantics. Is this a song? How about this? Or this?

You can get noise through the air with a guitar. Fluorescent lights, digital equipment, transformers, light dimmers can all induce noise that is picked up by a guitar. I can move my guitar around the basement and get more or less noise. That's one reason humbuckers were invented! Single...

Colin, I'm sorry to hear about Bron's passing. Your love and dedication to her was obvious to anyone reading your posts.

An audio interface goes two ways. You will have mic/line inputs and line outputs that should be a much better match for your mixer. Using the headphone outputs will work in a pinch, but often come with various noises (low levels of hiss and digital hash are common). I have one computer...

What kind of noise are you talking about? If it's just background hiss, that's very easily reduced with any number of plugins. In Reaper, there is REAFir. You basically sample the noise, and the plugin will cut the noise out. Waves makes a plug in series called Clarity. Izotope had...

I was surprised by the number of schemes that people have come up with to screw people. I'm glad my income isn't dependent on getting Spotify for Apple streams.

I just ran across this video dealing with the whole broken streaming system. It's got some really good points. Now I just need to figure out how to collaborate with that Taylor gal that gets a hundred gazillion streams each week! I see a new Lambo coming to my garage really soon.

DOOMED..... we're all DOOMED. You just wait until you try to fire up your DAW and a big red dot pops on the screen and says "I can't do that!" As for the song, I enjoyed it. Nice chord changes, clever, funny lyrics and a good video. Greta as the Stay-Puff marshmallow was classic.

I've found that lithium batteries really don't seem to lose much for a long time. My old cell phone lasted 5 years and still held a charge for 2 days. They are worlds better than the old NiCad batteries or even NiMH batteries. My Ryobi tools don't seem to have lost much at all over the...

Frank, based on your comments, I had ordered the JW06 adapter. The post office sort of lost track of it for 8 days. It suddenly appeared on the tracker on Sunday. It showed up today and I had time to test it out. It worked without issue, as I expected. The question I had was how did it...

If you're looking for "future proof" equipment, then expandability is probably the first thing you should consider. Today you might want 3 drum mics and a synth, but is that as far as you will ever go? I have an 8 channel recorder that I use for remote recordings, and I wish I had 8 more...