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When you mic a bass guitar amp, what is the best distance to keep the microphone? Does the wavelength of the bass make a difference? Someone told me it's like 15 feet long. Does that mean the mic needs to be that far away?

I was thinking about scoring one of these for live recording. Do they live up to the hype?

Is there any problem with using a bass guitar direct into a mixing board? Can it damage the mixer at all?

Does anyone know the rules for playing cover songs live? Is it legal? What about recording the covers you play, is that legal? If not is there a legal way to do either?

I'm new but I think I'm getting better at this, doh! Last night I was working on a song that had a weak vocal track recorded digital at maybe -12db. I imported the track to wave lab, chose "select all" in the edit menu and then normalized the track to -0.5db. Here I usually quit and send the...

I use Cubase with Wave Lab. When I choose a track and select 'edit audio' on the pull down menu, the track opens up in Wave Lab for editing. A few times after editing the track, I returned to Cubase and it automatically updated the track in Cubase. I don't know how I did this and now when I...

I searched for a Marshall v67 for 3 days and finally gave up. I was in Mars and they wanted me to pay list price(in the $300 range) to order one, so I gave up. I tried out the mics they had set up, heard lots of differences and after about an hour I chose the v63. I compared it to a $700...

Could someone please tell exactly what is a noise floor and what is it's relevance to recording?

I'm new at recording and I have Cubase. It was a little hard to figure out how to use. When I first started I wasn't too aware of the audio file folders and how to save the songs in the .all file formats. I've finally have that figured out but I ended up with a few folders with multiple song...

I have a fender tube amp called 'The Twin'. It's got a fabulous sound when you crank the channel gain for distortion but it comes with a hum(the cost). It's not unusual for Fender amps and there is nothing wrong with the amp, it's not a loud hum, just there. What I was wondering is what is...