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still mulling my music room options. There's a master bedroom on the first floor, it is rectangular but also bigger in all dimensions. current room is 109" (2.77 m) wide by 133" (3.37 m) long by 88" (2.23 m) high = 738 ft3 (20.9 m3) master bedroom is 137" (3.48 m) wide by 158" (4.01 m) long...

not quite sure which forum to ask this in, if you know of a more appropriate one, please let us know I do the majority of my recording these days via DI to an audio interface. When I'm playing through an amp, I like to turn the amp volume up to a healthy point almost always north of 5 and then...

I have two options at the moment for placing my new monitors. I already know about the equilateral triangle arrangement i.e. speakers as far apart as your position from the speakers but what about what vertical plane should they be at. my desk hutch is the most likely place I'd be putting the...

I might have had a bit of an epiphany tonight regarding my music room. I used to play in my bedroom until my brother moved out then I took over his former office. It's roughly 10' by 10' and less than 8 foot ceiling. Except for the corner where the accordion style door is a 45 degree angle...

I recently purchased an acoustic that came with built in passive transducer. I tested it through my USB interface and while it does work fairly well I was wondering about some options. There really isn't much in the way of tone control when going direct. I was thinking perhaps some sort of...

for the noob like me who is not a drummer and have never really done much with drum tracks, are the drum loops in Garage Band already mixed and tweaked and ready to go? Sorry if this is a bone-head question, I really don't know anything about them. I see all these youtube videos about mixing...

which I'm assuming means in a well-treated, good sounding room and also assuming good sound isolation from outside. but what about when recording in less than optimal conditions? Or going direct? Let's go with the latter first, going direct. I don't always get the same sound on playback as I...

I love the bean, I really do. Java sets my mind (and bowels) in motion. Without it I am nothing. That said, I just cleaned up yet another *^)(#^#@ spill of nearly a whole freaking cup of the stuff. I was doing some mixing, tweaking compression on a track recorded long ago and revisited...

I downloaded this on Saturday and tested it with an AC/DC song and one of my own originals, and it works. It only does major and minor chords but still it's pretty handy as long as you don't expect it to transcribe the changes to 'Tea Leaves'. :) Riffstation - The ultimate practice app for...

I've had this thing for years. I think I bought it at the local GC grand opening sale, they had a whole barrel full of them for some really low price, I want to say 79.99 or something like that. It might even have been the first non-radio Shack mic that I bought that wasn't an SM-57. I've...

not asking for specific brand recommendation but thinking about two different pres. One pre has two channels, and about 60 db of gain, for 299 the other pre has one channel, with 80 db of gain, for 50 dollars more, 349 on one hand, a two channel pre would allow me to utilize stereo (m/s or...

absolutely everything sounds like shit, nothing seems to come together nicely and that you were totally wasting your life in the pursuit of a good recording? Nah, me neither :) LIAR LIAR PANTS ON FIRE oh, alright, yes I do have those days. Thankfully not very often. Sometimes I sit at the...

like the title says, I had a nice happening sound (finally) going direct. Great. Think I'm going to hear what went in come back out ... eh, nope. :eek::cursing: recording solid body electric direct, wearing headphones, getting good solid sound without fartiness. nice fat waveforms in the...

Do you think bookcases full of magazines and books act as bass traps? Because I have about 16 feet of shelves crammed with pulp fiber objects in my music room. Or if they do, would they have to be in the corners?

apart from some messing with camcorders back in the late '80s and early '90s, I have zero experience in video. I should ameliorate that statement with a college course of video production I took. But we really didn't get to do all that much in class that was our own personal production, it was...

having a real productive day ... not but I decided to take a picture anyway ;)

I was trying out some of my mics for vocals last night and checking out the patches that come with the GarageBand vocal project option. I was just getting into the delay patch when something somewhere decided to go into a loop and just kept repeating the same thing and locking up GB tight as a...

this is not the first time this has happened, unfortunately. Upon deciding to call it a night, I saved my file in my usual manner, gave it a name and saved it to the folder I made for it. Then I decided to do something else and went to open it and I got this error message Audio file "broken...

I've been running into issues recording guitar direct to my late 2012 mac mini i5 dual core 2.5 GHz 16 GB DDR3 1600 MHz with Intel HD Graphics 4000 1536 MB. I alternate between direct into the mic input and using my Behringer UMC404HD. Guitars are passive single coils and humbuckers, no active...

I've read in multiple places recommending that monitors be placed at least 3 feet from the wall behind them and preferably more than that from the walls to the side. Alas I do not have that luxury. 3 feet from the wall behind them would be putting them pretty damn near the center of my tiny...