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I've been working on the desk in the pictures for about a week and a half, building it from plywood and 2x4s with a friend of mine. I thought I would show it off, I'm pretty proud of how it turned out. Now I only wish it was a little bigger. ;)

I'm not really sure what I'm looking for so I thought I would explain it and see if any one has some suggestions. I'm waffling between using Logic Pro X and Reaper for my home studio. I'm a guitar player and a hobbyist who likes to write and record songs for fun. The one thing that keeps...

I've been using Amplitube 3 for a while now and I'm really just starting to understand how to get the tones I want out of it. I saw that Amplitube 4 is out and I read the marketing material on what the new features are, but I'm not convinced as to whether it's worth the money to upgrade. Has...

Input 1, a dedicated XLR input, on my TASCAM US-1800 seems to have stopped working. The other inputs work fine (it has 8 XLR ins and 2 1/4" input jacks). I'm not sure when exactly it happened since I don't use the XLR inputs very often, but it must have been within the last few months. The...

I recently downloaded TSE Audio's Tubescreamer clone plug-in (it's free), but I can't seem to find it in Reaper's plug-in window. I've tried copying the .component file into the AU folder and the .vst file into multiple VST folders (I have one where I put downloaded plug-ins that's been added...

Hello all. Been a while since I've been on the forums, I took a break from recording for a bit. I'm back at it now, but having a weird issue. I upgraded to Reaper v5 (finally) and noticed that there was some latency when recording. After some searching I found some information that said I...

I dropped my brand new Gibson Les Paul Studio 70's Tribute off at Sam Ash yesterday to have it set up (I bought the extended warranty and comes with unlimited adjustments and string replacements (if I buy the strings) for 2 years) and get new strings on it. I figured it's free so why not use...

Well, I pulled the trigger. Didn't have to sleep in the dog house either. I convinced my wife it was an amazing deal so she said to just go get it. It will be a while before I can do that again though. I'm having a little bit of buyers remorse to be honest. The mini humbuckers in this thing...

I have a chance to pick up one of these for $600 brand new. I've played it twice and I love it, but I'm curious if anyone knows anything else about them. I'm a lefty so it's rare to find these and such a good deal. I might snatch it up for that price. It would be my first Les Paul.

I had one of my guitars professionally set up by the tech in the local music store last summer (so about a year ago) and it was playing great until about a week ago. Now I have this buzzing at the nut on the G string (not fret buzz, but a very fast and quiet buzz). It only happens when I have...

I wasn't sure where to post this since it's not a mix, but rather I'd like some feedback on some guitar lead improv I did over a blues backing track. I hope this is the right place, if not let me know or mods feel free to move it to the right place. There are some rough spots, I did a few...

I picked up a copy of Mixing Secrets for the Small Studio and Recording Secrets for the Small Studio both by Mike Senior. I'm starting with Recording Secrets since that seems like the logical place to start. I've heard really good things about the Mixing book from a lot of places. I'm hoping...

I'm using EZDrummer (1) right now to program drums, but I'm planning to upgrade to EZD2 to take advantage of the "song writing" feature (being able to build parts with Tap2Find). Yesterday I saw a thread here talking about Jamstix and I watched some videos on it…I'm really impressed with the...

I've been mixing a pretty complex (for me) song that had lots of volume "issues" and needed EQing. I'd like to be able to quickly and easily A/B my mix with the original, but I'm not sure how to do that since I have just stems that I imported into Reaper. I'm thinking I could load the stems into...

I don't have any unwanted noise other than amp noise (which I'm not sure a power conditioner would solve), but I'm wondering if I should get a power conditioner for my rack? What are the other benefits? I have 3 power strips plugged into the same outlet right now and I guess it could aleviate...

Not sure if this has been posted here before (it's a fairly old post), I did a quick search and couldn't find anything. Reaper Tips & Tricks I found a lot of it useful/interesting.

So when I'm mixing a song that someone else has recorded the first thing I do is leveling the volumes to make them all "sit" where I want in the mix. I normally just use the faders of each track to do that, but I read an article where someone had an idea of using a "gain staging" plug-in to...

I have a Behringer Eurorack Pro RX1602 mixer that I'm thinking about using to run two sets of powered studio monitors through. I'd like to be able to A/B them while mixing and I think it will be easier to do through the mixer. I also don't want to "eat up" another set of outputs on my...

I watched some videos online about this piece of gear and then obsessed that I needed one in my studio. I found an awesome deal online and bought one. Now that it's here I've tried recording guitars through it and it just doesn't do anything for me. I'm wondering if it's only good for...

Doesn't really fit into a poll format so I'm just going to type the questions and you can reply with answers. 1. What size studio monitors do you use (list all if you have more than one) 2. Are they "standing up" or laying on their side? 3. Approximately what size is the room you use them in...