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I know nothing of macs, never even touched one! I have however dabbled with Windows PCs since XP days and have been following forums for well over 15 years. In that time I have had I think 5 or 6 interfaces and several tower computers and laptops. Never in all that time has any interface or OS...

Push the boat a tad further and get the M4. Those 2 extra line ins and outs are very handy, a wee mixer and you have 4 mic channels. Dave.

The Lenovo E590 W11 laptop I have bought for my son does not have a removable battery. That worried me a bit but, I found a YT procedure for replacing it and it does not look too arduous a task? You have to 'tell' the machine you are going to remove the battery first and then it all shuts down...

Can I assume you are using two mics on the guitar in the (now "classic") configuration of one pointed at about the neck/body join and one pointed at the lower bout? Then you will balanced the two tracks to get the sound mix quality you desire and render to mono? The same idea does not apply to...

Well! I WAS going to wax lyrical about how my son runs Samplitude Pro X3, Reaper and Cakewalk on a pretty basic Lenovo T430 and does very well with it! But then you went and spoiled it all by saying you are getting a mac! I wish you all the luck in the world friend. Dave.

In that case, record the track with the guitar in the "null" position then video the guy miming to the track. Unless there are legal/contractual reasons why that can't be done. Pretty standard practice in the film work? Post dubbing because the location is just too noisy or the sound is...

Well, hang on! How bad is it? Post a clip* of guitar at -20 dBFS average oriented for minimum hum then damp the stings for say 20 seconds. If your noise floor is better than -70dBFS I would say you are doing pretty well. If significantly worse than neg 70 then you need to investigate noise gates...

ISO transformers? Do you mean balanced mains supplies? Probably not so bad when it is about 55V above earth but over here such gear constitutes a big hazard to service personnel who may not realized that even though a mains fuse has popped, one side it still at 115V ref earth. In fact it is...

The fact is friend, guitars and their amplifiers have ALWAYS* been noisy Bs! The amps themselves were often not that well designed for low noise and as ' rock n roll' moved into ever more high gain, distorted sounds this got worse. But, noisy as a 100W amp was, once you hit the strings the...

https://www.screwfix.com/p/masterplug-13a-fused-hard-wired-active-in-line-rcd/389kg That ^ is ideal fitted in your main diss feed because you can't do a gig and forget it! Dave.

In my opinion the bridge and thus the strings of a guitar should always be bonded to the jack earth/ground sleeve. That way, hand on or off should make no difference to hum...IF IT DOES! You have another grounding issue in the amp setup! Rob is absolutely right to call anyone who deliberately...

I would. love to see the schematic. "Mute circuits"? Yes SB, I have had problems with both bipolar mute transistors and FETs in the past. Might be good to find a mute rail. This is a fault that really needs an oscilloscope. Feed in 1kHz and go about with a probe. You could use a digital meter...

I didn't qualify "bass" or " mids". A sound source starts to go omni when a dimension becomes comparable to a wavelength. 1.5kHz is 0.733 of a foot. But yes, sound IS tricky so try everything. Dave.

OK, Let's suppose the chaps monitors are 8ins* across? That means they are omnidirectional from about 1.5kHz down and goodly chunk of that energy will hit the window and come back, delayed and mess with the response and surely stereo imaging? And of course, 1k5Hz is slap bang in our most...

I am by no means an acoustics expert! But I would think facing a reflective surface is even worse than having one 3m behind you? Sound is omnidirectional, wherever that reflective surface is it will....WELL! Reflect! TBH most of the problems with small* rooms is in the bass frequencies. Some...

The good news is, your room is not a simple L to W ratio so that helps. Yes, the reflective French window could be a problem. Curtain on a take down rail? If possible interpose a large absorbent object twixt you and window, a sofa say or an absorbent gobo. As ever I shall recommend you go to...

Do it again! This time at 2am if you have to. My son spent hours practicing guitar and when he needed to do "a take" often he had to wait until the wee small hours when traffic, people and pigeons had shut up. Even then there were odd noise off that needed to be edited. Noise reduction software...

From the spec' the device requires 14V at 700mA, that is close to 10W* and that is quite a bit of power to contain in a small enclosure. The situation is further worsened because the PSU is just a transformer. That means the rectifiers and regulators are in the device not the PSU and the latter...

That ^ is very interesting and it seems for once China has missed a trick? The net is awash with every conceivable sort of adapter you could wish for. You can couple almost any audio or video connector to almost any other. Indeed, I have just bought an HDMI to USB 3 (A) "video capture" dongle...

Let us dispose of one matter straight away? If Cioteval you seek an interface that will make a "night and day" difference from your Volt, you are, WTGR living in la-la land. No matter how much you pay for an AI I do not think you will detect ANY improvement in sound quality. I would even go so...