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How do you properly place studio monitors cheaply?
I currently have my monitors sitting on foam but they are not at ear level. I am looking for ways to improve their positioning without spending a fortune on something like an IsoAcoustic stand.
I ...
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What should I look for in microphones for home audio monitoring “nanny audio cam” system
When building a home monitoring "nanny audio cam" system, the main component seems to be microphones/sound pickups.
The qualities that I think I need for such microphones for this system seem to be:
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Mixing and Recording a Telephone Conference Call
For a podcast project I'd like to hook up two phones with my Mixer.
In essence this works, however callers do not just hear me and other callers but also themselves which is obviously very annoying ...
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How to monitor system sound and mic using Rode Podcaster?
Just set up my new Rode Podcaster and trying to figure out how to monitor both the mic and the system sound from my mac. Using it for podcasting, so I want to be able to monitor myself and the person ...
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Vocal recording - Output level is too low even though the preamp show it's clipped
I'm using behringer B-1 mic and a Roland UA101 interface, trying to record vocals.
I'm using the 1st preamp input (with phantom enabled) and although the input is clipped, it's still really really ...
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General (studio) headphones question; impedance, tonality, mixing
I picked up a pair of beyerdynamic DT 770 PRO (250 ohm) headphones a couple of days ago. My reasoning being I don't have a decent pair (I borrow a cheaper pair occasionally, AKG K77s), and my room has ...
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How do I mute my monitors while leaving headphones on?
Very simply, I want to be able disable my monitor speakers and leave the headphones on. This is obviously important when recording in the same room.
All of the mixers I have come across place the ...
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How to do live monitoring of audio input on Mac? (i.e. hear the input sound on audio out)
How to do live monitoring of audio input on Mac? (i.e. hear the input sound on audio out)
Is there a generic way to do this or is is application specific?
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Do all USB microphones that offer 'monitoring' appear as output devices to the computer?
I've been looking around at various USB microphones and I've noticed that some of them offer a monitoring feature. While it's clear that this means that I will be able to listen to the sound picked up ...
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Does software exist to measure the frequency response of a room?
I'm interested in finding out which frequencies are emphasized or attenuated in the room where I listen to playback and try to mix. I know there exist proprietary solutions for some monitoring systems ...
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Recommendations for good “bad monitors”?
To make sure the songs still sound OK on crap systems like small radios and computer speakers I've been listening to recordings through my computers speakers, a surprisingly good value €50 Creative ...
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Monitoring multiple USB microphones
I am in the planning stages of producing a podcast consisting 2 or more people in the same room. I have a large diaphragm USB condenser mic, and another non-USB mic. At this point, I need to decide ...
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Real time fx in Reaper
I have a guitar fx vst that works fine in Reaper if I'm playing back the track. It adds the effects correctly and I can hear it. But how do I get it to do it in real time as I'm playing?
Here is my ...
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I have two computers with audio output, and I'd like to monitor both, simultaneously, with one set of speakers. What do I need?
I have two computers with audio output, and I'd like to monitor both, simultaneously, with one set of speakers. What do I need?
I know I could feed the line-out of one computer into the line-in of ...
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What simple multi channel amp rack do you recommend?
For monitoring I need to drive sound of multiple soundcards into one and single amp with 4 inputs and 4 outputs
No routing, input 1 goes to output 1, and so on.
My speakers (4): 15-100w 8ohm FR ...
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Unmute D-Command on startup
Every time I start up the D-Command the main output is muted by default. How can I make it start up unmuted?
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How can internal software clip the 'From Software' channel on my Apogee Duet?
I noticed this the other day: the Maestro mixer on my Mac was showing the 'From Software' channel clipping. It happened to be that Radium was playing internet radio and the volume slider on the Radium ...
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Headphones to block outside noise
In a live recording environment, what "style" of headphones should I use to monitor what I am recording - in other words which block out the outside sound best.
Are in-ear headphones completely ...
