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I'm really liking using as few mics as possible on the drums, but I can't get my toms to pop out like I'd like them to. Right now, I'm recording in an untreated basement (with the exception of some couches in one corner and some mattress pads in two other corners) using a D6 for the kick and a...

If you're like me, then paying $30-$50 for a shorter mic stand is obnoxious. But if you've got a bunch of $10 Musician's Friend mic stands lying around, then it's pretty easy to make yourself a mic stand that you can use for your kick, guitar cabs, or 1-year-olds. All you need is a fine-tooth...

I feel like this is a dumb question, but I'm still kinda new to the whole Mac thing and I can't figure out how to change the sample size of my firewire interface. On the Windows version of Reaper, I could do all that right there in the software, but it's not the same set of options on Mac. It...

On the off chance that someone, for some reason, wants to get rid of a D6, let me know. I absolutely love this mic on the kick drum, but don't want to pay $200 for it. I'd offer to trade, too, but I don't think I have much in that department other than an Aardvark Q10 and some old computer parts.

This is probably not as cool as some of your mods, but it could be a helpful tip if, like me, you have an amp that rattles. My Crate 65w amp has been rattling for a while, so I decided I was sick of it and looked into it and found that the metal around the actual amp was rattling against the...

When I say "newbie", I really just mean new to the bass. I've been playing drums my whole life and guitar for the past several years, so I've got the basic music stuff down (sort of). What I'm more interested in are any bass-specific tips some of you more veteran players might have for people...

Features 8 preamps (4 of which have phantom power) with XLR/ 1/4" combo connectors. 2 of the inputs can be switched to be more guitar friendly, although all of them can switch between mic and line inputs. There are 8 outputs on the back as well as sends and separate outputs for monitors. Here's...

I have a Gibraltar double bass pedal, one of the Intruder II pedals. It's a sturdy pedal, but for some reason I can't seem to play on it as well as when I play with, say, an Iron Cobra pedal. I can't afford to go out and buy different pedals, so I thought I'd just replace the springs with new...

I could really use a bass for my recordings rather than trying to emulate one with my Whammy pedal. I was playing around at GC and got hooked on the Schecters, especially the Stiletto Custom, so if anyone has a bass like that that they are for some reason willing to part with (preferably for not...

The other night my desktop froze up and the now it won't boot up (or at least, it wouldn't last time I checked). I'm not really sure what's wrong with it, but I've decided I don't want to deal with repairing and upgrading it anymore, so I'm selling it and switching to my laptop. Having said all...

I think I already know the answer to this question, but I just wanted to make sure. My desktop recently decided to crap out on me, so I'm thinking of switching to my laptop (MBP) for recording. If I'm using a firewire interface and a firewire 800 hard drive to record onto, is that going to cause...

I noticed this at school with several mics as well, so I don't think it's just my mic or kick, but when I've got the mic inside the kick, it sounds really balloony. I put it in there to help isolate it from the rest of the kit, but even after some EQing it still sounds off. How do I get rid of...

I'm looking at upgrading my studio setup, but I need to be able to scrape together the money to do so first... Is anyone interested in either of these things? I have a general idea of what I'd like to get for them, but I'm willing to negotiate a little bit. I won't be able to ship the 1010LT out...

I've been thinking of upgrading my interface. Right now I have an Aardvark Q10, which is pretty nice, but it gives me problems every now and then, but really I'd like to have something with firewire or USB so that I can hook it up to my laptop for some location recording (for instance, if...

This is sort of a generic music question, but since I'm playing guitar, I thought I'd post it here. How do you figure out what key a song is in? I played drums most of my life, so all I ever learned was rhythm, which is useful, but it doesn't help when I'm trying to learn an instrument with...

I've had the Q10 installed on my system for a while and I haven't had any issues with it until today. All of a sudden, it's making these weird noises when I play anything back (even just .wav files through WMP). It sounds almost like what a scratched CD sounds like. Is that called drop out...

In my Reaper project, I have 4 drum tracks that I send to another track so that I can apply reverb to them all at once. I set them all up as Post-FX and then set the levels and panning in the IO of the receiving track. Originally, I had the original drum tracks muted (with the mute button) so...

I didn't really know where else to put this, but... as someone who's just getting started in the recording business, what's a good job to start with? I've been taking audio classes at school and I do my own recording in my spare time and in the long run I would like to have my own small studio...

Well, mostly just one issue. If my computer's been on for a while, the Q10 driver stops working. I'll go to open Reaper and it will say that the driver has failed to initialize or I'll try to open the control panel and it will close the second it opens. I've reinstalled the driver (7.14), so my...

Ok everyone, what's your opinion: with or without a hole in the kick drum head? I'm aiming for the standard rock kick sound, nice and tight. Currently, I have my bass drum tuned perfectly to get a huge boom out of it, so I'm trying to figure out whether or not I should cut a hole in it for...