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Sorry about that, I never was great in physics class. Thank you for breaking it down into simple terms I can understand.

You raise good points. I guess some of my issues are playing quiet in some parts of a song, but playing a little louder in other parts. So the averages are coming in pretty low, prolly lower than -20 dB, but the louder parts sometimes go up to -6 dB. So I sometimes have trouble getting a good...

Thank you. I believe I have a grasp on the mic distance/input gain concept. My computer is a Sonica Grandia GD-02 that I purchased back in 2009. It was made for music recording with an insulated case and hot rodded specs. I will look under the hood and see if there is a way to control the fan.

Thank you for explaining. I think I know what to do. Rode has an LDC model like mine but with knobs, I'm assuming it may have a high pass filter. But my model has no such adjustments.

Thank you for the reply. And thank you for the hot tip on the sound meter phone app. With regards to both singing and playing louder, my vocals are coming in too loud and instruments too quiet. So it seems like I should play louder, because the vocals are already loud enough. Also, when I play...

Hello. My apologies if I use the wrong vocabulary. I've been recording singer/songwriter stuff with vocals, acoustic guitar, and occasional acoustic and electric overdubs. I read somewhere about how the inputs should be set to a certain dB level for recording. I normally record acoustic guitar...

Hello. It sounds like you are almost there but some technology issues are standing in the way. It seems that you wish to record birds outdoors and you want to use what you have instead of buying a lot of new equipment. I completely empathize with your situation. I have attempted to piece...

Thank you for the suggestion, I like your setup. Yeh, I'm trying to avoid dropping $2k on a computer so I am thinking about spending $100 in materials and building an insulated tower cabinet.

Thank you for posting, that is the type of desk I had at my previous job. I want to build something similar but on casters and maybe with a layer of qtr inch sheet insulation fastened inside. There will be ventilation holes of course, but I think what I am visualizing should be pretty quiet...

Agreed Agreed Thank you for the K.I.S.S. list :D Don't forget, I'm also considering building an insulated MDF or plywood cabinet within which I can place a tower. Yes, all this is very helpful. Thank you for taking the time to discuss. I don't mind mixing on my laptop but it is connected to...

I forgot thank all of you in the replies. Thank you @bouldersoundguy @Steenamaroo @Eric Malone

Sweetwater has a single premium system (~$2,600) and I found two smaller companies that advertise audio DAW specialty. One looks more customizable with way more model options than Sweetwater, including case and fan, but the prices are still premium ($2-3k range). The other also has many options...

Apologies for not elaborating. The Dell refurbs I am talking about come from a company that will essentially take a Dell shell and most models have the option to pick and choose from many processors, SSDs+HDDs for storage, up to 100s of Gigs of RAM, graphics cards, etc, a la carte. They also...

I used to work in an office and my desk had a compartment on one side pretty much the width of a file cabinet, give or take a few inches. The compartment had a door on front with hinges and a magnetic secured handle; the tower CPU went in there. I'm thinking about building something like that...

Hello. I tried the UTFSE but got limited results. What do y'all do to reduce computer fan noise during recording? In 2009 I bought a then hot rod desktop that claimed to be made specifically for music production. It boasts an insulated case to reduce noise even though I don't know how...

All good points, thank you. Must be synchronicity. I'm just now seeing this but last night around the same time you posted here, I was on amazon mulling over which book to buy, Song Mixing Secrets by John Rogers or the one you mentioned. I went with the former because it was like $5 on kindle. I...

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Aha! I recorded with one mic but also had the pickup plugged in. K&K passive p/u. On the mix, before reading this thread, I used a lot of automation on the plugged in guitar track because it was isolated. On the miked guitar, I used a little automation to raise the volume a dB or two between...

Thank you for your assessment. Do you mind expanding on what you mean by guitar sounding phasey? The guitar itself is an OM, so it doesn't have a boomy bass like a dreadnaught. On the EQ, I removed the lows around 100-200 Hz. I also lowered the guitar -1.5db at 2-3kHz so as not to compete with...

Thank you for replying. All good points. I use Cakewalk and do have the ability to make new tracks and I think they even have a "take" function as well. I painted a large portrait of my mom last year, acrylic on canvas. When I presented it to her, my sister in law asked how long it took me to...