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It seems to me from my amateurish attempts at mixing, the loudness of the singing voice in a song matters greatly to how integrated (and professional) the song sounds. Too quiet or too loud but particularly when it's a bit too loud, the voice sounds like it is separate from the music, like just...

I've been using Audacity to do music recordings and it's been easy to get started and pretty good in some ways, particularly since it got the option to apply realtime effects. However, I've looked around and, unless I'm misunderstanding, it seems there is no way to set up a bunch of realtime...

Not even a year ago, I asked about inexpensive headphones for recording and wound up buying SENNHEISER HD 206 Closed-Back Over Ear Headphones. I have no good basis for judgment, but these sounded reasonable to me and I went with them. However, after wearing them for a while (>20 minutes, say)...

Whoops, sorry. I found that I actually had a USB-A to USB-C adapter so I could connect it using the included cable. Please delete this thread.

I posted a thread a bit back about my vocals not sounding quite as I want and got a lot of great feedback about my boxy room and possible treatments, better headphones, mic technique--even singing tips and general encouragement. All very helpful! Now I've been fooling around with songs recorded...

I have cheap ($7) headphones and want to buy a "starter" pair for recording (I do not have monitor speakers). From the suggestions in a previous thread, it seems two contenders, and they both turn out to be $30 with free shipping right now: Tascam TH-200x Sennheiser HD-206 Is there a clear...

I am quite new to recording music and finally got an audio interface and have begun trying things out. I've been singing to karaoke tracks just to kind of get the lay of the land. So far, I am displeased with the tone of my vocals when singing. I'll describe my setup and what's wrong. Setup...

In another thread I posted recently (https://homerecording.com/bbs/threads/thoughts-on-these-silent-pcs-for-recording.416613/), I got the sense that whether or not one uses plugins is the make or break issue for how much computing power you need (RAM and speed of processor). I have never used...

I want to record with a silent PC. Does anyone have an opinion about these offerings, for example: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=silent+computer&crid=NBOFVMIQBXZ1&sprefix=silent+computer%2Caps%2C318&ref=nb_sb_noss_1 For example, this one...

I want to get into recording music and own an electric guitar but have no effects pedals. I was thinking I would buy an audio interface and then use my computer to put any effects on the guitar parts. I've held off on buying effects pedals for this reason. I'm wondering how good this could be...

I've been seeing this term "room noise" on various forums, and wondered about it. It seems to me I should probably be able to get this or extremely close to it. I just have to turn off the furnace (not just the blowers, but the furnace itself) and have either a silent computer in the room or the...

All interfaces have some kind of indicator to show you if there is signal or clipping. For many inexpensive ones, it's just a green and red light. But some have level meters, like the MOTU M series, that show where in the range you are (green...orange...red!). I'd think setting your level as...

I'm looking into various options for a new computer for recording (and maybe for all my computing use). What are reasonable specs these days? I anticipate probably wanting the option to have up to about 20 tracks and to use various effects and plugins, then to mix down to mp3 or whatever. But...

I'm looking down the road of home recording and have wondered about the noise coming from one's computer (fan, disk access chittering, etc.). I would not call my old computer's fan loud, but it's audible and when you shut it off and the room goes silent, you realize just how audible it was. For...

I'm considering which audio interface to buy and wondering if I should get one with two mic inputs rather than just one. This would be for recording acoustic guitar + singing. I already have a simple mixer that could take in two mics (I actually own three and it has 4 inputs) and output one XLR...

I want to get back to audio recording and have an old M-Audio Firewire Solo but no Firewire card. I had thought that it is so old that today's interfaces could give a much better sound quality for music recording, but now I am not so sure. I want to do home music recording of all sorts...