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Hi folks. I just acquired a pair of used Behringer Truth B2031A monitors, as I wanted something with 8" woofers (and also front-ported, as I need to have them backed up against the wall of my small home studio). Here is my initial measurement graph (1/6 smoothing), showing the left and right...

Hi all, I've been offered a pair of Kali Audo LP6 studio monitors (original version from around 2020). Unfortunately, I am not in a position to test them before buying. I read that many people are bothered by the self-noise hiss they produce. Can anyone tell me the frequency range of the hiss...

Hi all, I've been offered an old Alesis Nanoverb and an old Alesis Nanocompressor for a very low price indeed, by someone who is no longer involved with audio engineering. I don't normally use rack gear, because for my music production, I use mostly analog guitar pedals and DAW plugins, which I...

So I have a Sonicake Matribox multi-FX guitar pedal, that is generally well-regarded. Unfortunately, I often hear a crackle, momentarily at some higher peaks of the waveform, when using some effects combinations. It looks like it shouldn't be happening, because the level warning lights on my...

Hi folks, I've been experimenting with REW and Equalizer APO software, to compensate for (a) the room acoustics in my small home studio and (b) the imperefections of the speakers. In this case, I was using a pair of 3-way monitors (Moukey M20-3). The EQ compensation settings were generated by...

Hi all. I've experienced this issue occasionally in the two DAWs I've used: Tracktion Waveform and Reaper. It seems like occasionally one or more audio tracks lose volume, without me adjusting anything on that track. In Reaper, if I crank the track level or the clip gains up more, to try and...

Hi folks. Is anyone familiar with REW and Equalizer APO? I'm trying to compensate for room resonances in my small home studio, using Equalizer APO and REW (niether of which, I am very familiar with). I measured my room acoustics in REW, using a measurement mic and a pair of 4" active monitors. I...

Hi all. This is what I want to do: In my home studio, I have a USB audio interface which feeds a pair of small active studio monitors. All straightforward, so far... However, I want to utilize a passive subwoofer that I have, fed by a separate audio amplifier that I also have, (which has a sub...

Guitar too loud via audio interface's direct monitoring, while recording... I've been struggling with this problem for a while. When recording an electric guitar, via my Behringer UMC202HD audio interface, the direct monitoring signal is too loud, relative to the already-recorded tracks...

Compensating for one's normal age-related high-frequency hearing loss... Our ability to hear higher frequencies (above about 1kHz) tails off increasingly (typically) as we pass the age of about 20. One graph I've seen suggests that the average 70-yr-old man's abilty to hear 8kHz frequencies is...

Highest headphone impedence suitable for the Behringer U-PHORIA UMC202HD audio interface? Hi folks. I've googled but haven't found a conclusive answer... What is the highest headphone impedence suitable for the headphone output on the Behringer U-PHORIA UMC202HD audio interface (when mixing and...

Hi folks. For my home mixing and mastering, I'm still using a pair of passive Tannoy Reveals that I bought 20 years ago. Do you think these are still likely to be good, or should I replace them due to their age? Are there better budget monitors of a similar (or smaller) size nowadays? I'm...

My logic suggests that if I use a noise gate, I should put it at the end of the effects chain, so that it eliminates noise from all the preceding effects. However, I often see people putting the noise gate near (or even at) the beginning of the effects chain. Is there a valid reason for doing that?

Happy New Year, folks. Does someone have the electronics savvy to answer this? How I can split an electric guitar cable signal into two, so that I can have one branch going into an effects pedal and the other branch going into an audio interface? I have a hunch that a simple Y splitter cable...

Recording guitar tracks: Using effects pedals vs. adding plugin effects, afterwards, within a DAW? Which way do you prefer, and why? Thanks, all!