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I've got a gigabit home network, so the video latency is negligible. My gaming machine is the host so no latency at all there. My recording/video editing machine is the client, and I haven't been bothered by the tiny amount of video lag that I see. There's a little but not enough to bother me...

I listen to everything through the same speakers. My home studio is a combination of two spaces that used to exist at my old house, but now my gaming/YouTube/browsing computer and my studio computer are in the same room. I tried a KVM switch but it never worked very well for me. So now I'm...

My take on your questions: 1) it's less about the brand of the computer, and more about the specs of the hardware inside. All brands make some lemons, and most brands make some good computers. It depends on what you're planning to do with it. Audio tracks? MIDI? VST FX? VST instruments...

Compression is a whole world of its own. For now, I'd focus on that distortion and getting a clean capture in the first place. Do a little research on the concepts of gain staging and headroom. I'd suggest sticking with a single mic and a mono track for now, and just learn the ins-and-outs...

The difference will be negligible. It might shave off a tiny tiny bit of high end. Pop filters are meant for stopping bursts of air from reaching the diaphragm of the microphone. I don't think there would be any arguments that you would leave it off except when recording vocals. In the...

I think that's a terrible idea. It wouldn't add anything to the mix in stereo, and it would totally cancel out if anybody ever listened to it in mono (like on just about every cell phone or tablet on the market). If you want a wider stereo image, record a take of your acoustic guitar part...

Are the gain knob on the Yeti and the gain knob on the 2i2 both at zero and it's still clipping? I've been fooling with a 2i2 (2nd gen) lately and while the instrument inputs are ridiculously hot, I haven't noticed the same about the XLR inputs. But I've never used a Yeti Pro so I'm not sure...

Would one of the BM800/BM700 mics that sell for under $20 do the trick? Then you'd have the board and a body and a capsule to play with. I can verify that the Neewer NW800 works on 3v through 48v, and it comes in at about $19. And given its sound quality, you'd be doing it a favor by...

I'd throw in the Roland Rubix 22 as well. It's won out as my favorite of the 2x2 interfaces of the ones that I've tried so far. I can't speak for its behavior on Mac, but on Windows it's shown me no flaws in hardware or software. Well, it does have a half-assed ASIO control panel, but...

Keep an eye out for 1073 clones from the likes of Golden Age, Great River and a bunch of others. It's a classic preamp design that's copied by all sorts of companies. Separate in/out volumes let you go from clean to saturated and they make for a great DI (and a great all-around preamp...

When I did this between Windows 10 Enterprise laptops, I had to format the drive as FAT instead of NTFS. That apparently caused it lose that ownership information while in transit. I haven't had that issue with Win 10 Pro at home. But as Gtoboy mentioned, you can right click a file (or a...

If you're using on-board sound, then just grab ASIO4ALL and dial down the buffer size as much as your hardware will allow. It's not the best, but it'll work way better/faster than MME will, and should be fine when you're on the go.

External storage has never been cheaper than now. You can get 1TB of storage for less than $50. And once your transfer is finished, you'll have a viable backup drive. What are you backing up to now?

I've been using the 25 key version of that same Impact LX and I love it. Of course, I can't play piano to save my life so I can't really comment on the keybed quality. I like the keys a little better than my old XBoard 49, that's about all I can say. They're definitely synth-action and not...

The easiest way is just to use an external HDD or SSD. Transfer stuff from old computer to the drive, then from the drive to the new computer. Any particular reason you don't want to use an external drive for this purpose? For applications, you'll have to reinstall them on the new machine...

Oh sure, you can record directly into Audacity just like any other DAW. Mackie doesn't seem to have ASIO drivers for the ProFX, so Audacity should perform just as well as any DAW (Audacity doesn't support ASIO without considerable technical expertise). If the latency gets frustrating, you can...

You'd just use one or the other. They're both 2x2 interfaces. You'd use the ProFX if you have a bunch of signals that you want to sum into a single stereo track or 2 mono tracks. The Rubix comes with Ableton Live Lite, which is an OK DAW. Otherwise, download demo versions of all the big...

Windows 10 has a built-in clean install feature. Hit the windows key and start typing "reset this PC". Follow the direction from there. This doesn't disturb your documents/pics/videos/etc but it reinstalls Windows and wipes all of your applications. It even creates a handy html file on your...

I use OBS on both a computer running an AMD Ryzen 7 CPU and an entry-level NVIDIA Quadro GPU, and on a computer running an Intel i7 with an NVIDIA GTX 1080 and both of those machines have no problems keeping up with OBS at all. I also ran it on a computer running an Intel i3 with no GPU, and it...

I've heard a few hi gain guitars recorded in the Fredman technique with a pair of SM57s, where 1 mic is on axis and the other is at a 45 degree angle. The phase cancellation that happens is in the higher frequencies so it tends to get rid of some fizz from the amp.