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Recently all the MP3 I encoded has a background screeching sound (just like those when you play old cassette tapes). Funny ! It's more apparent when I encode with SCMPX compared to the Blade encoder. Anyone has this probably or anyone knows the solution to these problem ?

My little studio is at a corner of my study room which sometimes becomes my guest room when we have visitors. I often have all the equipments in the rack on overnight so that corner of the room looks 'threatening' to our guests. So I wonder if its okay to keep on switching them on and off...

I've the Alesis Point 7s and they truly don't help me monitor the bass in my recording very much. I'm almost always uneasy about the low ends of my recording. Anyone have a method to overcome this besides getting a new set of speakers ? I don't hear people talk about having a sub-woofer to...

I'm using my Tascam 414 as a mixer connected to my PC's soundcard. Anyone knows how I can record a track clean to my PC via the 'line out' while having a reverb aux effect in the monitoring ? Can the 414 do that ?

Anyone's got a good site for downloading a good share/freeware compressor for use with my N-Track ?

I got lazy and decided to rearrange my equipments so that everything is within reach when I'm seated. Here's how it looks like now ---- ----- ------- ---- | o | | FT | | CM | | o | |LM | ------ | | |RM | ---- | RA | | | ------- ----- ------- |-TD--|...

What sort of processing works to make MIDI Drum tracks more realistic ? How possible is it in the first place ?

I'm trying to convert my songs in tapes created in my 4 track portastudio to 4 tracks in my PC. Is it possible for me to patch each channel of the mixer in my PortaStudio individually to separate inputs on my soundcard ? If not what are other options ?

After months of building up a small home studio, I realized that one of the most important piece of studio equipment is not much or at all talked about in the studio; the CHAIR !!!. I personally recommend all to get chairs with rollers so that you can move from the mixer to the keyboards to the...

Hey nobody talks about pickups used for recording ... What do you have in your guitar ? Mine is S/S/H Strat style guitar with a Dimarzio FastTrack 1/Stock/Stock. Set it on my DiMarzio pickup for all my distortion guitar recording. Nice crunch. Just got a Virtual Vintage '54 .. haven't set it up...

I've heard that the NT1 microphone is very nice and sensitive. I'm just wondering if it would it pick up a lot of those little noise from the computer and other atmospheric noise ? I heard some people gave it up for something less sensitive because their studio is not silent enough. Anyone has...

Anyone out there knows of a software which will do what an aural exciter like the BBE sonic maximizer would ?

I've good offers for a Digitech DSP256 and Alesis Midiverb in good condition. I don't know which to take. I just need a usable effects unit mostly for vocal reverb. Anyone can help me decide which one to go for ? My criteria is mostly on the quality of reverb. Thanks in advance.

SEK'D Prodif 24 has analog out but not an analog in. Does that mean that I cannot do direct recording into the harddisk via my microphone ? Can I use the Digital I/O for that purpose ? Anyone has experience with this card ? What do you think of it ?

I've ACID Music and I'm not really using it so much because it only allow you to program minor keys. For example if I've a song with the following chord progression C-Am-F-G, I can only do C-A-F-G. Of course when I sing over that rhythm it sounds funny. Anyone can help me overcome this ?