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No clue how this particular gobo/reflextion filter/mic shield sounds when recording vocals, but I figure I could try to use multiple layers of absorbant material (here read my leftover cheap foam wedges) with air gaps in between (a la reflexion filter) using silicon caulk beads as spacers...

I admit, I'm no handy man. But Ikea furniture usually gives me ideas, sometimes good; sometimes not that great...but I think I might have something here : GORM Shelving unit - 78x35x174 cm - IKEA I'm thinking of using the bottom part for my rack/recording interface, the middle shelf for my...

MICKE Storage unit - black-brown/white - IKEA Could one of those units get rid of the PC noise if lined with sound dampening material? I'm already using a Cooler Master power supply, a SilenX PC fan and a SlienX CPU cooler. All of them whisper quiet yet...my vocal mic still picks up the...

I just replaced my bedroom curtains with thick, heavy curtains from Ikea, hopefully they help some. I had some cheap wedge foam laying about (the Foam factory stuff) so while I was at Ikea I grabbed a pair of their cheap picture frames (8.5" X28" I think) at 5.95 apiece. A bit of spray-on glue...

Okay, so I've been trying various techniques for best signal to noise ratio and (hopefully) sound quality improvement. The mic: a Audio Technica AT2020. The preamp/interface: M-Audio Fast Track Ultra. In all three clips I used a pop filter. The recording software is N-Track Studio 6 and I...

I got this from the N-Track forum, the poster says that after recording a vocal track, he records a "dead air" track (litterally stands in front of the mic without singing) and reverses the phase of the latter track. He then plays both tracks side by side and according to him, it reduces...

Hiya folks, I've been sporadically visiting this forum and now that I think I have a semi-decent setup, it's painfully obvious that the better quality the microphone is, the crappier a room full of ambient noises and refexions can screw up a clean vocal track. By process of elimination, the...

I got the LM-9 that came with my copy of Cubasis VST to work in N-Track, but the LM-4 only works with Cubasis, the interface has the script under the pads all garbled up (e.g. rather than Bass drum, snare, hi-hat, etc all you see is xxxx xxxx xxxx) ... any reason for this? :confused:

Any DIY ideas? As it is the walls are thick enough. Like you can hear a neighbour's TV or stereo blasting from the corridor, but not from within the apartment, and you will hear partying neighbors as they're heading to the elevators - that apartment door is pretty noise transparent. The...

I'm not sure of what was causing the problems I was experiencing with my outdated version of Cakewalk, but the out-of sync playback I was getting from it is not present in N-Track Studio so ... I've converted to N-Track ... again! :p The past few weeks have seen several changes: Apex mics...

First I got an Apex 460 large diaphragm tube mic which sounded too fuzzy - I swapped the tube. Fuzziness gone, I tried various vocal test recordings which really brought out the short-comings of my Behringer Eurorack MX602A and ART Tube MP: -blurry mids and lack of top end in spite of the...

Before I fork out cash on another set of headphones, is there a way to reduce the leakage from my AKG K240 Monitor phones? I record to the PC via a E-MU 0404 card, using Cakewalk Pro Audio. Hearing the back track at low level under the vocals sounds quite distracting, and pretty much limits...

If you want a preamp that's clean & transparent with as little coloration as possible, which is the better pick?

Just in case check out this link: http://emusician.com/mag/emusic_tracking_elusive_vocal/index.html Getting a more "open" "airy" vocal sound may be as simple as using a setting between cardioid and Omni directional on my newly aquired Apex 460! :D All of my previous mics were cardioid, this...

Okay, I confess, I have a shoestring budget thus my choice in equipment. I try my best to get the best bang for the buck: Apex Mics, E-MU 0404 audio card, AKG phones ... I also use Behringer gear and was rather surprised of the negative feedback they receive: Eurorack 602A (I needed something...

I just bought one yesterday (belayed birthday present! ;) ) as it's the only large diaphragm mic I can afford for vocals. I've read all of the reviews and decided regardless to upgrade the stock vacuum tube - The Tube Shop recommended the Ei 12AX7 as a definite improvement over the stock tube...

Since the general consensus was that Pentium II CPU's beat the crap out of Celeron's, I decided to upgrade my CPU to a Pentium II 400. Problem! My motherboad can only support up to Celeron 300 and PII 333, so no matter what setting I specify in my BIOS, it defaults to Pentium II 266! That is...

Perhaps one setting is wrong or my system has a bad CPU hog that messes things up ... perhaps the Dman can't co-exist with the Sound Blaster Live! card ... here's the problem: After recording vocals to a MIDI accompaniment, playback is just erratic and shaky: slows down speeds up, seems to...

Perhaps one setting is wrong or my system has a bad CPU hog that messes things up ... perhaps the Dman can't co-exist with the Sound Blaster Live! card ... here's the problem: After recording vocals to a MIDI accompaniment, playback is just erratic and shaky: slows down speeds up, seems to...

I like N-Track studio and the flexibility it offers, but before I consider registering it, I'd like to make sure I know how to properly use it ... Thus far, every time I've imported a midi file and tried to transfer that file into audio (the record mixer is set to midi), after I hit the record...