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I just made a few new upgrades to my home studio. I was just kinda curious as to what individual piece of gear do you guys feel you just couldn't live without? I am a big fan of my Sennheiser hd280 cans, absolutely marvelous.

So I am adding to my studio a few new pieces of gear. I just purchased an Akai MPK49 midi controller, Sennheiser HD280 headphones, and an ART MP V3 mic pre. If you guys have used any of this gear chime in on this. I wanna know what you all think.

I have been experimenting lately alot on recording guitars, but something bugs me about how they are sitting in my mix, not very full sounding. What I want to get some suggestions on would be like if I have 2 guitarists, how many tracks should I do to get that full guitar sound, where should I...

I have been using amp sims for a while now, getting better. But I am still after a wall of sound thick crazy mix. This is my latest attempt, any suggestions would be great. Post hardcore song by Nathan Limes on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for free

I am trying to figure out how to get drumagog 4 or kt drum trigger to send a midi signal to superior drummer. I have sonar 8, i have gotten kt drum trigger to do it before, but for some reason I can't for the life of me figure out how i did it before. I wanna replace the crappy drum recordings...

I am sure that this question has been asked a million and one times on here, but I don't care, I'm asking it one more time. I just got access to an acoustic drum kit, up until now I was cheating(S2.0). I want to master recording a live kit though, I have been playing with it, but I am getting...

Ok, so I am getting irritated quickly trying to get decent sounding guitar recordings. I am kinda wondering if it is me or the interface. Here is what I am using, I run a Sterling by Music Man JP100d guitar into a Boss NS-2, into a Bugera 6262 driving my Egnater tourmaster 2x12. Ok, so I have...

I am wanting to get a controller, but not sure what to get. These Behringers are very affordable and get alot of good reviews. I was wondering if anyone can tell me alittle more about these or what you guys are using to control Sonar 8?

I'm looking for a few good preamps to add to my home studio, under 500 dollars preferably. So what do you guys think?>

Anyone have one of the Presonus Channel Strips? I am thinking about getting one for tracking vocals and such. I seen a studio video of Whitechapel that the engineer was using a 300 dollar Presonus Channel Strip for tracking their vocalist. I do alot of metal band recordings, so I thought that...

So I am looking into getting a Presonus channel strip and maybe some mic preamps, comps, limiters and such, how do I hook it all up, I have been using all digital until now. Say I have a Focusrite pro40, and outboard gear, do I run the channel strip outs to mic xlr's? or what, be very...

So I have heard from some people that if you don't have sound dampening material that you can use quilts to kill off some of the reflections in a small room. Any comments on this. I am wanting to do some drum recordings in my little home studio, but don't have dampening material, if this would...

I have a very cool cabinet, which has a removable back panel to make it an open back cab. So far I have only used closed back, I was wondering what you guys prefer for recording guitars, open backed cabs or closed?

I threw this together in about a 30 minute stretch, I think I am getting pretty good at these amp sims and impulse responces, what do you guys think? And yes it is another metal recording.

I just purchased one because I wanted to downsize my rig for live shows. I got this because I think it would work really well for my studio as well. It has a removable back panel, so I can get an open back sound or a closed back. It has Celestion Elite 80 speakers in it, birch plywood build...

I am looking for a good 2x12 new or used, that would be the best for death metal. I will be using it for gigs and recording purposes, so dependable and excellent tone. What are you guys suggestions?

I have an e-mu 1212m pci interface, I am in the market for a 8 channel mic pre. I was wondering if I could get like a focusrite saffire pro 40 and use the adat output on it to send the 8 channels digitally to my e-mu and use it as my mic pre, I know you can with some interfaces, so I was just...

So I just purchased an E-MU 1212m pci interface for my desktop, running windows 7 64 bit. Anyone have any beneficial tips or suggestions for me. And I am in the market for a 8 channel mic pre, and since I am on a budget for the time being, the Behringer ADA8000 is what I am looking at. I...

I am wanting to get a pci or pcie audio interface for multi tracking drums. I am on a tight budget at the moment, was wondering what you guys think. I wouldn't really wanna spend alot, looking used is probably what I am going for. I want an interface capable of recording 8+ via adat...

I think it is sounding pretty good. But it isn't quite commercial grade yet, any suggestions to make my mix sound better.