We get the settings to how we like them, and a minute or two later, they sound naff. We boost xxHz a bit more until we like it again, and a minute or two later, we don't like it. Again. Or we keep going until the 'right' sound sticks. We break, listen back later, and it sounds naff.
Leave it...
Whatever you do in your studio, keep it simple. Getting to far into settings will have you spending more time twiddling than outputting—and getting frustrated.
I had the same happen when I had an instrument far left and right. One copy in each and one side inverted. They cut each other out in mono playback. Problem fixed by moving one side out of time by a few milliseconds , which I had forgotten to do.
I tried posting a link the other day, but the site blocked it. Someone else had the same. I'll try it now. waves room - Recherche Google
. That looks wrong but the link works. I must have misunderstood.
The search brought up some hotel sites. Skim down to to one called audioholics or search...
What have you heard said about them? I googled waves room and got some pages talking about 'standing waves', which you don't want in a studio. I would paste the addresses, but this site won't have it.
Google studios in the area. Email them, telling them what you want and your budget. Downloaded MIDI tracks might help. The one that said about asking in your church is right. If nobody does know one, there might well be a computer whizz that knows is will be quick to learn a Digital Audio...
My setup cost me under £90 for a PC from a charity shop. The Digital Audio Workstation is the free Audacity. The mic is a tie-clip one I was given a stage mic on freecycle but don't need it.
I didn't spend anything on the virtual instruments and fx. Go to vst4free.
I quote 'One slight snag, Audacity does not save as .wav'. I didn't use early Audacity and therefore don't know if it has always exported wavs, and I didn't want to seem argumentative.
This has got to be the unfriendliest music site I've known. How long have you got to post yourself before anyone talks to you? I've seen long threads with answers that have nothing to do with the OP. How about the one that starts off telling us what compression does, but the answers go on about...
Download Audacity. You can it Google it easily. That's a Digital Audio Workstation that can run plugins for all any effect you can think of. There's no MIDI editor yet, but I use Record Producer Deluxe and Anvil Studio for that. Loads of them can be found at vst4free.
I use a MIDI electric...