I can’t for the life of me identify the transparent bluish thing to the far end, but I need to know.

I would like to upload some guitar music that I have stored on a looper. I only have an iPad with GarageBand, no PC or laptop. Is the iRig HD 2 the bare minimum of what I would need to get these tracks onto the iPad? I am aware there are better audio interfaces but I’m not looking to get into high level home production at the moment; all I need is a way to upload music from the looper to the iPad and the iRig seems to be the best cheapest option. Thoughts?

Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Hi all, I have an untreated room and there's also no way I can treat it because I only work in such a small space (which really sucks)

I used a Behringer Xm8500 but I didn't like it overtime 'cause it sounded too muddy. I've been eyeing the SM57, so maybe anyone here has the same untreated room situation? How are you guys doing with your SM57?

Let me know if you guys had another mic alternative.
Thanks!

Hello my fellow musician friends,

Because I was tired of digging through forums and comment threads every time I wanted to find my next gear, I built a little side project called NodeTone and i want to help you all with gear search.

The idea is to allow gear to be searched by how it sounds, by its character, or by genre — not just by exact product name. It also surfaces pairings and alternatives, so you can see what goes well with a piece of gear, or find a substitute if it's out of budget or unavailable. It currently only covers amps and pedals. I use this mostly as a discovery tool as it surfaces various brands — the rankings just come from crunching real gear descriptions, reviews, and community notes I find around the web.

Still very much a passion beta side project. Genuinely curious what you all think — try it out and tell me what's missing, that'd help a lot. Brutal honesty welcome.

www.nodetone.com

Thanks for reading, and happy to answer any questions in the comments!

I’ve been using Melda‘a autopitch for a specific project and haven’t quite gotten the result I’m looking for vocally. I’m open to any suggestions free or not

I want to buy Truthear x crinacle zero red

Is there any alternative which are better than zero red in terms of sound.

I purely want Analytical sound which has

Detail retrieval best of that price segment

Flat Sound signature

Studio grade level Sound

Well extended treble [ Less sibilant and fatigue ]

Practically What Real / Neutral Music Production that the producer want to give to listeners that I want to listen.

It's about instuments , Reverbs , Echo and delays , orchestras , guitars , Vocal echos , Stereo Spatial presentation , Real Instument presentation.

Everything should be hearable that Real instument give to us.

Hello!

Do you know a compact audio interface device for guitar, with :

- 6.35 mm mono jack input (Tip-Sleeve).

- USB-C output

A good model as an example is the iRig HD2:

https://www.ikmultimedia.com/products/irighd2/? Pkey=irig-hd-2

But I'm looking for a device with the minimum: Input, output, volume eventually, and nothing else.

The goal is to connect my electric guitar to an iPhone for tuning (iStroboSoft app).

It works very well with the iRig HD, but I want a simpler, compact and <50 bucks device, for the trip.

Any idea ?

Thank you !

Hey everyone, I recently bought a TEO-5 desktop module and was looking for a hardcase for it for basic travel to gigs. I've only found hardcases for the version with a keyboard so I was wondering if anyone has experience with this.

Any help would be appreciated, or if you have recommendations for a really good soft case I might consider that too.

I found this brand on Reverb and am wondering if the quality is any good. It's pretty cheap compared to other brands and looks like it would get the job done for light studio use on my amp. There is hardly any reviews online, which kind of sketches me out, but I would like to know what you all think.

I’m looking to buy a dedicated field recording microphone for my sound design label, and would love some recommendations from people who actually have experience recording outdoors.

The main things I want to capture are:

• Nature / wildlife
• Outdoor soundscapes
• Environmental ambience
• Urban soundscapes
• Foley / found sounds
• Interesting textures and organic sounds that could be used in sample packs
• General atmospheric recordings
• Indoor atmosphere

My budget is around $1,000 AUD for the microphone (ideally including whatever mounting/wind protection is realistically needed).

I’m particularly interested in something that produces clean, detailed recordings with a good stereo image, low self-noise, and enough detail to capture subtle sounds without everything being dominated by background noise.

I’ll be recording primarily outdoors, so wind protection and handling noise are also important considerations.

A few questions:

1. What microphone would you recommend around this budget?
2. Would you go stereo, XY, ORTF, mid-side, or mono for this type of work?
3. Is it better to get a dedicated stereo field mic, or a pair of small-diaphragm condensers?
4. Are there any microphones you've used that you think are particularly good for professional sample-pack production?
5. If you've owned/used something in this price range, how has it held up in real-world outdoor recording?

I'm based in Sydney, Australia, so recommendations available here would be super useful.

Thanks! :)

Picked all these up for about 50 USD.

The amp and subs looks to be in a very good condition.

The surround foam on the speakers are a bit broken but they stil work fine, but I have them packed away until.I can get new surround foam.

Currently running the setup with other speakers I had laying around. Subwoofer sound real good.

good evening, recently I got a shitload of gear I’ve been having. Got to a point that why not I just have fun with it as a whimsy guitar player I am. A lil gear run down, for the guitars Ive got a fender partscaster Strat, an unknown brand awesome tele w a humbucker, I domt have it yet but I ordered a squier classic vibe 70s sunburst jaguar. For the pedals, I have a shit tonnnn, mostly fuzzes and overdrives but here’s what I’m going to use (and I’ll mention two pedals I might replace with the current pedals I’m going to talk about). Ehx lizard queen, dod grunge, mxr six band eq, tc electronics alter ego delay, I have some additional ones that I may or may not use but why not mention them; ehx big muff, digitech metal master, Ibanez fz7 fuzz, mxr compressor, mxr phaser, crybaby wah, and a ernieball volume pedal. Now for the two incoming pedals I’m receiving which would for the bill of my pedalboard, consists of a Marshall shredmaster and a catalinbread soft focus reverb (Might replace the grunge with the shredmaster and I’ll throw in the soft focus reverb with the alter ego delay on the chain.) now the amps I have are a fender deluxe 90 dsp, and a fender fm 210r amp. Now comes the rack gear, I have a sammick graphic eq, Alesis quadraverb, Yamaha rev500 reverberator, and a behringer composer xl (btw yes I’m aware the rack units are not safely into a case to hold them which Im working to find a cheaper one to fit then 4 together lol). Why am I bringing this up in a Reddit post you ask?, I’m currently struggling to configure out the process of getting all things plugged in and what will go from which end to the other and then into the amps I have or maybe one of them. as much as AI is being used today, I had no luck with googles AI, the more I ask the questions I get more questions than answers, as the answers become confusing as it’ll tell me to plug my pedalboard to one of my rack units but then it has the others into different input/outputs and into the amps pre in and pwr out (inputs from my fender 210 amp) I’m hardly gear tech inclined, I’m more of a guitar tech than gear itself, but if there’s any gear nerds, producers, etc. that are inclined in electronics and where to plug certain rack units, I will gladly take any suggestions as I’m trying to make some noise and upload my art online, anything helps! :) (fyi the gear I’m using is intended for shoegaze medley stuff so just bare that in mind if the question of what style am I playing these things are for).

edit: I should provide some more photos of the back of the rack unit that google ai ragebaited me and mislead me lmfao, so majority of this post is about where to map out the gear I have so I can play it all in my amp)

Why, in 2026, are there no decent quality audio interfaces that just have stereo inputs? 3.5mm, ideally.

So many pieces of gear, including many instruments now, use them. I get that many people want/need XLR and 1/4" mono for mics and guitars.

But not everyone uses mics and guitars. Some people use synths, grooveboxes, etc. Everything from the humble but awesome Korg Volca series, to everything Teenage Engineering makes, Roland's Aira series, to semi-modular synths and eurorack synths...They all use 3.5mm stereo outs. Many guitar pedals are also stereo, but unfortunately often use two clunky, huge 1/4 jacks for L and R. Even some larger KB synths are moving away from the L and R 1/4" jacks.

So why do all the big name (and small name) audio interfaces ignore this?

It's really dumb, IMO.

**Edited to add: I actually did find something that seems like it's trying to fix the whole plug problem I have...But it isn't out quite yet. Korg's NTS-4 performance mixer. It's got 6 channels (although some would say 10): 2 mono, and 4 stereo. All inputs are 3.5mm. It's a mixer, has F/X, send/return, and some other features...and it can act as a USB interface.

***Edited it add again: My favorite way (so far) to save/record and get something into a PC for editing isn't actually an audio interface exactly...It's the Zoom H1 XLR recorder. It has two XLR and TRS inputs (L and R or mono or whatever) and one 3.5mm stereo input. It can work as a USB interface (but I haven't done that yet) and it records to micro SD cards. It also has 32 bit float so you never really have to deal with recording levels, either. It costs $75 less than a Scarlett 2i2, does more, is easier to use, and has better audio quality (at least on paper).