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Hm. I think I've tried all that. At least, I've tried dozens of combinations and haven't been able to tame a single peak. There's nothing that says 500ms or 55ms, just on-screen virtual dials that roll from 0 to 100. The decibels are just represented by bouncing vertical bars, and they don't...

I read that nearfield speakers are good for small home studios. My music room is about 5' x 8', so I bought a pair of 5" M-Audio BX5 monitors. They're useless. I mean, they look nice on my desk, but no one seems my music room, anyway. My old open-back Sennheiser headphones are much better for...

I have a pair of 5" nearfields. They're terrible. Get something bigger.

There's no way to know whether (a) is true. The bass sounded fine to me. The song seemed emotional. As far as style, that's a matter of taste. When I look for advice, I ask people who like what in the US is called Americana - music built on the shoulders of old American styles like country...

I've been writing songs ever since someone showed me how to play guitar almost fifty years ago. (Before that, I wrote poetry.) Since I'm not a pro, it's never mattered to me what anyone thought of my music. I can't recall ever getting a compliment until maybe ten years ago. Now there's a...

I like my stuff. The challenge is finding anyone else who does!

I just got a new channel strip (an ART Pro Channel II) to hook up to my old digital recording/mixing deck (a Tascam 2488neo). I got the channel strip because the deck's onboard EQ is too limited and its compressor is useless. The back of the Tascam includes these jacks: - Effect send 1 -...

Thanks! That was my first guess, but I didn't want to fry anything by experimenting.

My sweeping generalizations: Competitiveness varies by region. For instance, I hear Texas guitar pulls are show-downs. A heritage thing? I went to a couple of jams in the Blue Ridge mountains a while back and was impressed by how uncompetitive they were - even compared to staid Northern New...

My Tascam digital recorder and my mic preamp both have phantom power switches to use with condensor mics. 1. Do I hit the one on the preamp, the one on the Tascam, or both? 2. Does it make a difference whether I'm using a line or mic input? Thanks!

[My notes are in brackets. The manual says:] SELECTING MIC EFFECTS 1. When the MICX4 key is pressed (regardles sof whether eight or four mic effects have been selected) and the SELECT key of the input or track is pressed, the MIC EFFECT screen is shown. [A picture reads:] MIC EFFECT...

Hey! Over the past fifty years, I've written over 200 songs. When I play live, I mostly play a lot of blues, country, and folk. My song writing is mostly in the old-style American-rootsy story-telling tradition - not jazz, classic rock, punk, hip-hop, or electronica. No looping, sampling, or...

How do you make the compression work? I change the settings, but that doesn't change the sound. The peaks remain just as high regardless. Is there something I have to do to engage it after I dial in new settings? I've tried the Save, Yes/Enter, and Send buttons, but they don't seem to do it...