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hey that sounds like a pretty good idea to shut down some of the outside noise, unfortunately I don't have enough rockwool for that, that window is HUGE, the reason I wanted to make a "compact" booth instead of treating the whole room is in three parts : I will be moving for sure come the...

Hi all ! my current apartment has the most dreadful noises, I can hear the general building ventilation through the walls, cars out the window, the fridge down in the kitchen, there's a lot. now I used to record at a nice studio space I was renting but with covid this became a difficult keep...

So i did something stupid, i bought a used pair of Dynaudio BM5a Compact without noticing they were the compact version and not the regular BM5a, the seller didn't help, i'm not sure what went through me at that moment, over excitement or something, bottom line, i brought them home THEN realized...

This machine has been mentioned countless times as a great way to get lo fi tape compression and clip the mixer section into grittiness. But only the MKII is mentioned, while the MKIII seems to be owned by people wanting cleaner recordings, at least from information gathered in this forum, so I...

I share a studio with a fellow musician, I'll be recording and using his monitoring system but with my own interface. I own an Apogee Duet, the original version with unbalanced outputs. When using his gear, the simple thing to do is to take the main out cables from his interface and plug them...

Hi, I may have a good deal on the sub version Q108B but I have no idea how much it's worth so I'm not sure, all i know is that it's suposed to be high end, well, I thought this would be the best place to ask, any clues ?? I have a hard time finding information on what this thing is worth used...

I just sent the following mail to Golden Age Project : "Hi, I recently bought a pre-73 and a comp 54 from someone used, very in love with the pre-73 sound, but the comp 54 seems to have an issue, even with the makeup gain at maximum i can hardly match de volume of the bypassed signal, it does...

New apartment, one wall needs to be soundproofed, little space to do so Hello all ! I'm new to the world of soundproofing, I spent a lot of days on forum research before posting here and now I just need to cover specifics. Here is a drawing of what the apartment I just moved in looks like, I...

Hi guys, I just finished building Roxul acoustic panels (wood frames with rockboard 40 inside wrapped inside textile), I now want to hang them in some places (built 15 of them). Only thing is that I don't know how to go about this (hanging them). 6 will go on walls, 2 on the ceilling, 3 in...

Hey everyone, I searched a lot on this forum for info about sound absortion and I know almost everything I need to know for my studio room. It's an 12 by 8 feet room that has a nasty spring echo that I need to get rid of. At first I wanted what we call here OC 703, but it's hard to find...

Hi everyone, could not make the firepod work on my pc no matter what I tried (don't want to discuss it), so I'm going to purchase some new parts, processor and motherboard and install the 2gig ram from my non-firepod compatible PC. I would like to get suggestions on what to get, I want...

Okay, really desperate here, I would really appreciate some help as I've tried everything. Been trying to work out the presonus firepod for the last 3 months, but nothing worked. Here are the symptoms : 1) strange artifacts, noise and glitches are added to the recorded sound, kinda like a bit...

Hi, has anyone ever tried recording with an external 5400 RPM hard drive ? I will be swapping my internal laptop drive for a bigger one, and thought I could put the old one in an bus-powered enclosure, could be practical to have it powered by my laptop aswell, i already use a powered interface...

Hello, what is the best way to apply some distortion on drums, is there any specefic plugin to do this, without the cymbals getting too brittle ? Francis.

Just starting out in mixing, and I saw myself using EQ's on 90% of the tracks, helps create zones like mentionned, I don't have any EQ knowleadge, so I just move around with the a graphic EQ until I find a frequency which makes the instrument sound clearer without raising the volume, I keep this...

Does anybody know how much disk space is required to install Native Instruments' Komplete without the Vokoder and loops, I just want the instruments, but don't have 35GB of hard drive space...

Hi, will be running into a problem. I'm very interested in getting Native Instruments' Komplete.. I could use 9000 samples ! Thing is, the site says it requires 35 GB of free space... but I have only 12 GB at the moment :eek: I'm recording with a laptop to an external firewire hard drive, is...

Hello, I am recording using a bus powered firewire interface on an external firewire hard drive. The hard drive can also be connected USB but I've heard many times that firewire is much more stable for that kind of application. Now I have only one firewire input on my computer, is it a good...

Hello, currently recording on an Intel Mac running both Mac OSX and Windows XP, going through a MOTU Ultralite interface. Looking for a suiting solid-state condenser microphone for recording mainly my voice. I tried the MXL V69, but it didn't suit my voice very well, neither did it suit my...

Hello, currently recording on an Intel Mac running both Mac OSX and Windows XP, going through a MOTU Ultralite interface. Looking for a suiting solid-state condenser microphone for recording mainly my voice. I tried the MXL V69, but it didn't suit my voice very well, neither did it suit my...