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I have an Ibanez RG1570 with the original pickups (a Vintage 8 in the bridge, Single 1 in the middle and Vintage 7 in the neck). I play metal with this guitar and want an aggressive tone, but the stock pickups are just "too hot" for me. When I use a high gain amp sim or my MXR Fullbore Metal...

I acquired an Alesis Quadraverb as part of a "package" of rack equipment not long ago and I've been trying to figure out how to use it ever since. I'd like to plug it into the FX loop of my guitar amp and use it for reverb and/or delay, but when I try that I get some terrible feedback and the...

Not long ago I acquired a rack full of gear from a friend of a co-worker who was moving. I paid $250 for all of it and there's a couple of useful things in the bundle, but a couple seem to be a waste of space/money. #1 is a dbx 266XL compressor. I finally got it wired up to work with my...

Last night I was attempting to record some guitar through my US-1800 when all of a sudden I started getting this very loud static noise on the input. It maxed out the meter and was kind of like white noise with a constant clipping sound. It happened on both of the instrument (line-in) inputs...

Last night I downloaded some stems from a website that were made available expressly for the purpose of using them to learn mixing. It's the largest song/most tracks I've imported into Studio One and worked with so far and while the CPU and memory on my laptop were ok (for now) the "Disc...

Ok, so I have an old laptop that I'm using for recording in my home studio. The specs are in my signature, but I think I'm hitting the limit on what I can do with it these days. My question is this, is there a "rule of thumb" when it comes to setting up tracks in my DAW...meaning in this...

I know this is probably going to make some people's blood boil because the topic gets beat to death around here and it's also a topic that is pretty clear what the answer if from prior conversations. I am curious if anyone here records and/or mixes music in a home studio environment that is not...

Ok, let me say I'm a total newb when it comes to using hardware processors of any kind so I might be totally off base with this, but I need help. I recently bought 2 channel hardware compressor and I want to use it to add compression to tracks while mixing (not while recording)...mostly because...

Hello all. I've been away from the forums (and recording) for a few months due to being busy with other things, but I've recently started another project and I've been re-energized. A co-worker of mine has a friend moving out of state who was looking to sell some gear that he used in a DJ rig...

About a year ago I bought a tube amp from a local music store. This is the first tube amp I've ever owned as I've always had solid state practice amps. The other day I put the amp on an amp stand (I play at very low volumes and it helps if I angle the amp towards me). I noticed that the amps...

I've been debating over the best way to store my guitars. I have 7 electrics and 1 acoustic guitar and I have been storing them on a rack like this one (but not this exact one). I often have a few minutes to a couple of hours to pick up a guitar and play so I like them being out of the cases...

I've recorded a track with some guitars, bass and drums (using EZ Drummer) and I've got the parts how I like them. It sounds pretty good through my Rokit 5's and my Presonus "mixing" headphones, but through my laptop speakers, earbuds and my iMac speakers the guitars come through too loud and...

I've searched the net and these forums for this info, but I can't seem to find exactly what I'm looking for. Tonight I tried downloading a song from the Mix This! forums to play around with on my 2006 Macbook Pro. I imported the wav files for each track (I think there are about 10 tracks) and...

I need to upgrade my recording Macbook Pro from Snow Leopard and I have the option to upgrade to Lion or Mavericks. I'm wondering if others have upgraded to Mavericks and how it's working out? I've read quite a few things saying it had issues in the past and I wonder if those have been worked...

I recently purchased a TASCAM US-1800 interface and I would like to connect an external music source (CD player, mp3 player, iPhone, iPad) as an input so I can listen to reference material both on it's own and while I'm recording (e.g. cover songs). How can I go about getting something like my...

I just bought a TASCAM US-1800 to replace my Audiobox USB interface because I read/heard that the Audiobox has no way to control the input signal (padding?) and that it can make your guitar input too "hot" which causes clipping. Whenever I record with Amplitube 3 in Studio One (directly into...

Found this in the Deals section at Sweetwater. If you're looking for an affordable interface to record mics and guitars this is a decent one. One caveat (because I own one) is that you can't pad instruments so a guitar with "hot" pickups could clip unless you mess with the levels a lot...

Forgive me if this has been asked/discussed before, but I noticed there isn't a forum dedicated to Studio One, but there seem to be one for all of the other major DAWs (that I'm aware of anyway). Is there a reason why it's not represented? Not enough users? I have some questions specific to...

I tried searching for this, but couldn't find any specifics info about this device. I am looking at picking up a TASCAM US-1200 to replace my Presonus Audiobox USB. Does anyone have any experience with it? Good, bad or indifferent? Any other suggestions for audio interfaces in the $200...

I'm not sure if this has been asked before (I did a search, but didn't find the specific mics I'm asking about), but I found a deal on Audio-Technica M8000 mics online and I'm considering purchasing them. I plan to use them in my home studio to mic guitar amp(s) often and possibly for vocals...