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due to my living arrangements, I'm finding myself having to record and playback almost exclusively with headphones. My question is not so much "What headphones to use?" but more about how to use them without driving yourself to distraction. I'm an electric instrumentalist, my guitars and bass...

I have a mid-2012 mac mini running Sierra's latest version (but not High Sierra) with 16 GB RAM and 2.something GHz processing and gobs of storage space. recently I put down 3 tracks of guitar using amp patches in GarageBand. Most of these patches have 5-7 plugins (native to GB, they are part...

I was playing along with some drum tracks in GarageBand when I got a wild hair to try something. I had been using the default 120 bpm in tracking when I thought "What does it sound like if I played it back at 60 bpm?" For some of you old enough to remember vinyl and turntables, there was an...

I'm not necessarily thinking of upgrading from Sierra to High Sierra but if I purchase a new mac it will come with HS. I've heard of mucho bugs with this latest OSX, moreso than Apple usually has. I've got a phalanx of plugins that are working just fine right now and I'd hate like hell to have...

I've got 18 archived tracks I want to master and dub onto a tape. I understand that loading each tune into its own audio track in a project is probably the best way to master them to consistent levels. But how do I achieve sequential playback of the mastered project i.e. to dub a tape that I...

I cleaned up my patch cables a couple days ago with DeOxit as was recommended here. It seemed to resolve the intermittent issue. I had fine results while I was mixing tracks and playing with plugins. I decided to dub a demo tape (yes, a cassette, I'm old school). After reacquainting myself...

don't remember where I saw it, some video somewhere. using two compressors on same track. first one to trim about 3db of gain reduction, second one about the same. keep from over squishing if tried to do all the reduction in a single step. it may be old hat to some but it is a revelation to...

I had something weird happen tonight. I was experimenting with plugins on some recordings of mine. After a while I noticed that my left channel wasn't sounding. There were lights in the meter for the track but no sound through the left headphone. I checked my phones and power amp with another...

I took advantage of some holiday/end of summer type of sales events to acquire a few titles at prices that agree with my skinflint yankee ways aka the prices they should have sold for in the first place :D Garage Band on a late 2012 mac Mini i5 with 16 G RAM and well, a slew of empty HD space...

another newbish question - in the MXL Genesis mic description, they used the phrases 'drop down' and 'look up' . What does that mean?

Can one compressor handle multiple tracks or do each of them need their own compressor? Does it have to be hardware (external) to prevent input clipping at the digital end (DAW)? I've got a bunch of 4 track master tapes that I want to digitally mix and master. I have a USB audio interface...