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Hey guys. I'm finally giving in and rearranging my studio, getting out of the corner and moving to the other side of the basement. I'm only renting the place now and will possibly be moving within a year, but I really want to build a wall to get some sort of isolated section of my basement...

Every now and then when I'm playing my guitar, I hear a noise that sounds like sine wave (like an electronic tuner in pitch pipe mode). I thought it was my guitar, but then my other guitars and even my bass started doing it. On top of this, it started happening on both my recording gear and my...

I just got an ART Digital MPA Gold and it's on it's way. I'm pretty pumped to have a dedicated pre-amp, as I've only had my firepod thus far (and an ART Tube MP, but come on, let's be serious). I've heard really amazing tracks come from this thing when the tubes were replaced, so that's what I...

Does anyone know if there's a difference between the Fender Blues Deville and the Fender Hot Rod Deville? Are they the same amp, or was the Blues discontinued?

I'd like to start getting into doing more automation, like riding the fader on vocals and what not, but I tend not to use it because it makes it much more difficult to change the overall volume of the track if I find it to be sitting improperly in the mix. Also, before mastering, I like to make...

I have this old mix that I'm trying to play around with, since I've learned quite a lot since the first time I mixed it. I went to go take a listen to the drums, and apparently I had no idea what I was doing because they sound awful. I still tried to work with that I have and started mixing...

Ok, I thought I had posted this already, but I couldn't find it when I went back to check on replies. We've all seen the million and one threads in this forums asking "which mic is better" or "which mic should I use for this". While we have a large group of contributors to attest to a mic's...

I have an extra 4 year old tower that was pretty decent for it's time, so I was thinking of putting OSX on it and using it as my studio desktop. I'm currently running Logic 8 on a macbook, so it wouldn't be too much of a downgrade, if any. However, I found out the processor doesn't meet the...

Of course we've all seen the hundreds of threads in this section of the forums asking which mic we should buy, and inevitably, someone says "try them and decide for yourself." I'm always wondering where this person lives where this is an option. I've lived in Philadelphia for two years now and I...

I'm getting a bit frustrated at my drums. Specifically my snare. I can't get my drums to stop clipping. Well I can, but then my snare is so far back in the mix it sounds buried. I'm mixing in logic and I keep getting a nice little red 6.0 above my fader on the snare channel when I finally get it...

I currently own a Firepod (along with the rest of the world) but was planning on upgrading to the Focusrite Saffire Pro 26 to get better pres, as well as leaving the window open to run some pres in via optical down the road. However, I just found a MOTU 896HD on craigslist for 400 dollars. It...

So after the only feedback I got from everyone was to "clean my room", I did so! I cleaned up my basement and even slaved hours over making a nice little video tour of my space. I figure this would give you a better idea of what I'm working with than some pictures. Hopefully someone will reply...

I was hoping to get some advice on how to arrange my basement for my studio. I've been using it the way I set it up when I moved in for a while now and it's ok, but I think it's not very acoustically sound. You can see a Virtual Tour of it at www.benrosenbach.com/studio.mov. I've since moved a...

So I've been doing home recording for a while now, but I still feel extremely amateur with the subject. For one I don't and have not taken any classes, everything is self taught. Most of what I do is pretty menial stuff: mic placement, proper signal chain, some EQing, compression, reverb, all...

Does anyone know of any good places to outsource some mastering to, specifically some hip-hop. I don't have a clue how to master and I know it's something that takes a LOT of time and practice to get even decent at, so I wanted to outsource the mastering. Hoping for something relatively cheap...

Hey, this really has nothing to do with anything, but I was wondering if someone could clarify how recording with a console works, both with an analog or digital console. What's the signal path involved? Does audio come back out of the console or just in? I would assume a digital console would...

Is there any advice you guys could give to putting reverb on drums? I generally struggle in this because I like a short, small reverb on the drums because I think it sounds more natural, but I usually can't hear it when I mix it in, so I also try to layer a second, more quiet, longer reverb that...

Hey guys, I just showed my friend how he can control his Juno D with a computer using the piano roll in Logic via a MIDI interface (I just used the one out on the back of my m-audio radium). He was pretty impressed, but he was wondering if there were any free programs that he can do piano roll...

Hey guys, I really need some help on this one. I can't find anything on the web anywhere about this tuner breaking, in fact, everyone is saying it's impossible to break, but I did it! My Korg rackmount tuner won't work anymore. When I turn it on, every single light turns on and it doesn't...

This isn't really a MIDI question, but involves some sample files and their inability to load on my mac. I used to use FLStudio on a PC and I've gathered quite a bit of samples over the years of upgrading and I'm trying to import them into my current sample library on Battery 3. IMHO, a lot of...