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Fascinating post Bobbsy. Very interesting info. :) You can easily tell that I'm a rank newbie to the wonderful world of audio theory. When I read this paragraph... ....my imagination immediately went underwater and started going "ping, ping, ping...." like in the old movies. For just a split...

If it's the type that i think it is, the two cables are only joined together by a thin web of rubber. They should be easy to gently pull apart until you have a large Y shape that will stretch across the gap between your speakers. I've had to do that with several cables and never had a problem...

Thanks Al, I'm pleased to say that you appear to have very powerful good wishes - there's been a happy ending already! :D I got in touch with the young lad at the shop where I bought it and he was able to send a query through to Singapore, (I think he said). It turned out to be one of those...

Thanks for that wonderfully generous offer mate. :) I rather think that there aren't any local numbers here in Australia. I spoke to a guy at the shop where I bought it and he said that it's even hard for them, and when they put queries through they get shuttled off to Japan... The "Pro Tools...

Hi all, Do any of you wise members know how to actually contact a human at Avid? I've never encountered a company that seems so unshakeably determined to avoid any contact with their customers. :( I bought an Mbox Pro audio interface yesterday which came bundled with Pro Tools 9, but with...

Maybe this forum needs a weekly "Polish The Turd" competition. :) A freshly uploaded bundle of awfulness each week to test our skills at operating all the goodies and see just how far we can get with improvements. Having a few people working on the same tracks, uploading results, and sharing...

You're in good company. One of the legends of songwriting, Irving Berlin, used to like to compose on the black keys. He actually had a piano that could transpose mechanically by moving the keyboard, so that he could use the same physical piano keys but play in different musical keys. Interesting...

Hi, I started with very low expectations, and was effortlessly able to meet them. I thought I'd sound like shit and I did. So I put some effort in. Not much you understand - I'm not that energetic - but enough to improve. Do I expect to sound like a commercial recording though? Put it this...

So a pentatonic scale is really a stick man doing a star jump..... hmmmm... Could be a song in that perhaps? But I don't think I'm the one the one to write it. ;)

Great thread. :) My 'studio' is not yet a slice of acoustic paradise, it's just a large comfortable attic room with a bunch of gear in it. My reasons for setting it up go like this: 1. I need a space to store the fruits of my gear addiction. 2. I like having a ‘man-cave ‘ to escape to, and...

Hi, I used to write lyrics first, because I'd had decades of experience wrangling words, and not very much with making music. But it often wasn't all that successful because I'd end up with lyrics that looked good on the page but didn't always sing well when I did begin to get some music going...

This sounds a bit like the old "Death of Melody" debate. The thesis there being that in the 'good old days' melody was king but now it's been put in the rest home. The popularity of writing songs on guitar by strumming chords has sometimes been fingered as one of the villains in the piece. The...

Hi, To be honest, I wouldn't spend too much time or money trying to solve your problems until you know what they are. Give the room a good workout and see if you can pick what your biggest down-sides and weak points are and then post back with details. I'm sure some of the people here will...

Hi all, Lots of people think you can't mix well with headphones, but here's a guy who say that you can, and explains how, and what the potentials pros and cons are in some detail. It's an article by Martin Walker who runs a studio and is a respected contributor to Sound On Sound magazine...

Good question. I think that Greg probably nailed it with the first reply in the thread. It really would depend a lot on what you're trying to achieve. I think that it's worth making a distinction between home and pro situations. Giving that this is HomeRecording.com and not...

Good post, and the analogy with bulding a race car was nice too. :) I totally agree that you should try and get the basic track as good as you possibly can before you start fiddling around. The scary thing is though that with modern software it's no longer quite true that "you can't polish a...

LAVA lamp? Hmmm... You don't mean that dark red 'LAVA lamp' on the left do you? We call them metronomes over here, but the lava lamp name might stick now.... :) Yeah, the sunlight is an issue. Those blinds on the western end stay down permanently and the boards on the north facing windows...

If the question is "Can you get fairly close to commercial quality at home?" then I'd say the answer is "Yes" - at least I sure hope it is! The final few percent will probably never be achievable at home, but I don't think that they're necessary for most purposes. When you're up against...

Glad you enjoyed it. I've got a lot of respect for Martin Walker's articles. He seems to be able to speak from great experience but in terms that I can usually still understand. :) I re-read that every so often and see how I'm progressing with his suggestions. Here's my home attic...

Hi, Like Grimtraveller, I've experimented with various rooms and setups and in my opinion the best place is wherever you feel most comfortable - because the likelihood of finding acoustic perfection in a home situation is nil. All the places I tried had pros and cons, but I've gone for the...