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For what it's worth when I mentioned physics I meant it more in the Scottie way than a Brian Cox way. Especially fitting considering Dave's opening line cause me to hear his entire post in the voice of Kirk! A nice way to think about it, maybe, is like having a one to one conversation but in...

Pleasure. :)

That's great. There's definitely something to be said for having realistic targets and keeping things simple. I hope you find the same success with your new setup but if you don't it's a good thing you joined a home recording forum. ;)

Best of luck. (y) There are some basics with monitoring that can help a lot, if you don't already know. The main things are placing them such that they, and you, make an equilateral triangle, and placing them so that they are at approximately the same height as your ears. Of course try to...

It depends what you have. The goal with monitor speakers is that they should be neutral sounding. They should tell you the truth without accentuating this or diminishing that. Of course there are varying degrees of this with some monitor speakers being very good and others being terrible...

Hi. Welcome to HR! No, the Scarlett does not have a power amp built in. Most, or perhaps all, audio interfaces are like this. They output line level. What you'd need, then, is a power amp and a set of passive speakers or a set of active speakers.

There's no need to be defensive. You've come looking for help and advice and you're getting it. I'll never discourage someone from experimenting to learn but there is value in saying "that's not how it works" if that's not how something works. No one's criticising your recordings and no one's...

All the other info in this thread is relevant and useful but this ^ is where I'd start. If you can get your hands on a tried and tested brand like Verbatim, and set burn speed to the slowest, that might be all that's needed.

What brand of CDRs did you use? It's too long ago to give you specifics but I do remember issues with some brands. If I recall I settled on buying Verbatim and burning at the slowest possible speeds.

The fundamental difference between what you're describing and noise cancelling headphones is that with noise cancelling headphones the desired audio, your mp3 or whatever, is already isolated, as is the noise. The idea of recording a sample of some of the noise might sound nice but unless that...

Hate to be that guy but compressors don't 'bring up the low points' and noise cancelling headphones don't sample noise from a few minutes ago. These solutions will either not help or make the problem worse.

I'm with BSG. Assuming the daw (which daw?) allows the same degree of panning in both setups, there shouldn't be a difference. You could prove it by making a wav file with two sine waves, one pitch in the left and another in the right, Import that to dual mono tracks, hard panned, then again to...

The issue with foam, which I guess is the advice you got before, is that it's only really useful across a small range of frequencies. Relatively higher frequencies. That means if you walk in there and clap your hands or hit a cymbal or snare you're going to feel like the room is dead, and...

You could argue that powering them all on knowing that they're probably going to go bang would detract from their condition. :ROFLMAO:

Not arguing against the idea of some grounding issue but what you describe sounds pretty normal. There are numerous sources of interference in your studio and, most likely, far fewer in the kitchen. To prove you can either walk around pointing the guitar (pickups) at stuff using it as a...

Just realised this is essentially the same as your other thread. The title may change but the physics won't. You've got two sources of noise (computer and you) and one capture device (microphone). You need to balance them either by adjusting the volume or position of the two sources. Your...

Rich is correct. Adjusting the input gain level wont help with this because it's adjusting the source (voice/instrument) and background noise equally. As he said, the solution is to adjust the ratio of source to background noise, as perceived by the microphone. Your pictures aren't loading just...

Thanks for the detailed reply. The last thing Dell, Acer, HP etc are thinking about is airflow and keeping the machine cool, and audio recording, usually, isn't particularly demanding. What you're describing is taking a, most likely, inadequate case and fan setup, I.E designed to run hot/loud...

Hi @Dusty Ol' Bones This is a bit of a tricky one. Makers like Dell, Acer, HP etc are known for cutting corners particularly in cooling and expansion, so there's a good chance you'd buy a tower to find it has a pathetic intel CPU heatsink, small case fans and not enough of them, and not enough...

It's likely the BSOD has an error code on it which may be useful so, yes, if you can get a clear photograph of that that'd be great. You can also look up system logs to find out a bit more about recent BSOD crashes. Some instructions are here. It may not mean a lot, or anything, to you but you...