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Another audio setup "trick" from way back? When running an external interface (or a decent internal card e.g. the M-A 2496) it was usual to disable* the On Board Sound Card. Reasons for this were, to free up PC power which was not as cheap and generous as it is today but also, along with...

Not my field of expertise but my son builds songs from samples which he triggers playing guitar. I think his MO goes something like this... Track 1 a click trk 2 a kick trk 3 a cello trk 4 a bass trk 5 a crumbhorn* Rinse and repeat for the whole of Green Onions by Booker T. So, "amplitudes"...

I too do not understand the problem? I have a MOTU M4 on a Lenovo laptop W10 and can play any YT, radio or recorded sound I fancy. If I run a file in Audacity e.g. it (and the M4) cares not which driver I use. WASAPI, Direct Sound or MME. When I need to make "serious" recordings in Samplitude...

I was probably wrong to call a device that brings up low level in formation an "expander" but then I don't know quite what to call it? A compressor can increase volume if make up gain automatically tracks with gain reduction but since "limiting" is merely an extreme form of compression, the...

Yes, I am thinking of "expansion" in the terms of what R3 sound balancers did to smash Beet 5 through AM radio! Pulling up the quiet passages and puling down the loud. "Compression" can be applied to low levels to make them more audible or the top end to prevent overload or both Possibly THE...

Oh! Right! Well that's MY theory and I'm sticking to it! Dave.

Compressors don't make quiet parts louder, you need an Expander for that. Piccy is the one in Samplitude ProX 6. I am sure there will be one in Reaper and probably Audacity. In hardware terms there is really no difference between a compressor and an expander, it just really depends what you...

OOoo! I have 4 of those. Two with tape on and two empty. Seems to be a bonus when I come to sell my A3440? Dave.

Thank you Jay. IMHO "fatigue" at that sound level would more likely to be due to mental stress rather than "ear bashing"? Much of course depends I would say on the material being mixed? If a genre you like and of good musicianship you can probably do a good 3-4 hours at a stretch. Some weird...

An interesting thread but I wonder how many of you are monitoring the SPL you are running at and whether you have your speakers calibrated? Dave.

I have the SATA hard drive out of a defunct Toshiba Freeview HDD/DVD recorder. I would like to check it for any recordings from years ago which might be interesting. I have a W10 tower PC and I could easily plug the drive in but I have two questions. 1)Is the drive liable to cause any 'boot'...

https://www.diy.com/departments/rockwool-sound-stone-wool-fibres-insulation-slab-pack-of-6/1440515_BQ.prd That ^ of course is a company local to me. The curtains can still be used for "mirror points", For some in depth larnin' look up "Studio SOS" soundonsound .com Dave.

Not a "Real Time" analyser but I have used Right Mark Analyser for many years to check for hums and other noises. One restriction is that it only works* with 16bit .wavs but that is hardly onerous. If printing out the graphs, invert page colour. White on black uses toner up PDQ! *That might...

Hmm, I detect a whiff of snake oil there? Remember, an open window has a sound absorbency of infinity*, it leaves and nothing comes back. ANY kind of material is going to be worse. *Well, actually rated as "1". Everything else is less than unity. Dave.

Yes, a dry, perfectly acceptable room for speech recording. The room might not be quite so good if recording wide band music, especially the low end. I think people often get confused about room treatment because there are different requirements for acoustic RECORDING and monitoring and...

I completely agree with your earlier point Rob about people speaking of "garbage sound". Audio forums are full of such hyperbolic statements and this is nowhere more true than with the guitar brigade! Endless "night and day" claims about "NOS" or "Cryo" valves. Often based on a 30 second clip...

Bugger! However there are many, many versions of that S/PDIF converter in the market I bet you could find similar and I also bet they are all the same PCB out of the same factory! The KA6 should serve you well. I know it works fine on mac and indeed Linux. One problem is that the S/PDIF is RCA...

S/PDIF connections USED to be common on audio interfaces (as did MIDI!) but no longer. If you can find one I can heartily recommend the Native Instruments KA6 sadly no longer available new. I have waded through some of the Thomann pages on AIs and only two seem to have S/PDIF at under £200* ...

That is interesting. Did you use a simulated guitar pickup source for the tests? Problematic I know because what values of L and R do you choose! What was the difference, if any in the 1kHz insertion loss? I am not surprised the Radial did better on ambient electrical noise reduction. The...

Not necessarily bloody wrong either! The main deign point of an active DI is to present a high, 1M Ohm input resistance and I am trying to explain that a lower, C ~150k might tame the fizz a bit. If he spent $20 on a passive DI and absolutely hated it (I am betting he would not) he could...