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As an interesting experiment, you have probably learned a lot. Sound wise, the big players in sampling would actually sell this and call it super mangled-tron and people would find a use for it. Is it a mellotron? No, of course not. Its an effected instrument, and some people make music that...

My first rule now is that predicting acoustic treatment is pointless. I finish the room then treat what I find. One thing I always do since studio 1, is never have 90 degree corners, and on longer walls I pull out the middle to help reduce parallel surfaces. Even a few degrees make huge...

Glass fibre or rockwool is what Dave means. Pics wise I didnt take any of the actual building, sorry. Plasterboard here in the UK is quite cheap compared with plywood. Its crazily expensive, and sometimes the non-marine types are a bit variable in usefulness for sound. Compare the weights. The...

One studio I built I put neoprene acoustic decoupler strip under the bottom timber. A few years later it got demolished. That foam had compressed from it's 6mm down to a thin hard (and pointless) hard lump! Loads of people swear by green glue. I used it once and I vowed never to repeat it. The...

Subs Tops Vrx is odd. It’s not a line array but a constant curvature system. The venue it’s in is very deep and wide but one big tiered space but with a low ish roof. Deafen the front row but it’s quiet at the back. No place for delays. I tried vrx and I like it. Hang one sub and three tops each...

Are you certain the relays are faulty, or are the relays fine but the drive circuitry has failed? Those little dip relays do fail with age, but i could be something else?

No, the opposite = hear the room, make the adjustments - My two studios sound very different, but now I can swap between the two seamlessly as I have 'learned' their differences - so in one, bass is different. So I can put a double bass into the mix (as an example) and have it just a bit too...

Actually, I find the venue sound far more tricky because often I am trying to create tracks that will get played there, so I've got a wider need to make sure the studio sound, works live, where the volume is up, the bass goes lower, but the acoustics wrecks the music more. Next time you record...

If you want to scare yourself, repeat the tests in different places in the room. I think I learned that (from doing this in theatres) interpretation is key - on it's own testing frequency response means very little. Pretty much now at a new venue I just play a track I know and listen. Very...

It is not possible to give a specific rate per stream - the fees paid depend on where in the world. Here are a few examples from my own stats, including things I haven't even heard of. Bytedance? No idea, but for 39 MILLION streams they generated £4.40! Facebook is a good earner, but apple is...

You now have three perfectly sensible traces. I do think you are over thinking the entire thing, losing perspective. If you turn down the blue speaker a tiny bit it tracks perfectly, the green trace suggests the HF unit has a difference in HF response. Its a gradual tapering off, then a sudden...

I have a Presonus firepod, a tascam 1640 and a behringer 1820, and I struggle to hear any differences between them!

I meant use any old mic - as their frequency response ups and down are rarely much different where you have issues

Where are you getting the idea about 'sales' from?? My music sales - as in real purchases in the form of downloads are tiny, but my PRS income is constantly growing. Sales now percentage wise earn me next to nothing - a few million streams however, do. Th catch is that earnings seem to now be...

The three traces are so similar with just subtle differences that makes me think the measurement system is the culprit here. I think you said the mic was an 8000 measurement mic, so we can be pretty sure it is pretty flat. Outside means no resonances, so 30dB of reduction at some points...

That could indeed have wrecked it because you get weird comb filtering effects that add in spikes to the response curve where they overlap which combine or reject to a degree.

No - LA325's Very heavy, and probably at least 5 coats of paint through their life, but never let us down.

I learned long ago that buying cheap products that were a little less than perfect, and tweaking them, was always a bit of an illusion. In my office, I run a pair of RCF 5" monitors. I have 5 pairs of them, in flight cases for stage edge fills. For music serious listening, they're just OK, but I...

I do the same. Audacity is on every computer and if I need to do some normalising, or fade in or fade out it's quick and simple, but I'd never record a normal session on it, even though it actually can do it. It is just not that nice to use once you go outside mono or stereo tracks. Everyone...

Well, so far I have wrecked a perfectly stable cubase install, and it now freezes and crashes. More soon. If I set up a midi track with just the midi in from the mixer, over USB - it records fader movements, However, my plan was to set up another midi track, no input bt with the mixer as output...