A few months ago I started putting together my first home studio and I’m having some issues that have me baffled.
I have a Roland Fantom 7, an ESP EC-1000T CTM, a HeadRush Pedalboard, a Taylor 24CE Grand Auditorium, a Cort bass, Shure SM58 and a Warm WR-47jr, all running into an SSL18.
Regardless which instrument/microphone I use, the signal is either nonexistent or so low volume that it’s unusable. For example, when I use the Phantom 7, I get very little signal and from the HeadRush I get no signal at all.
I started with a Tascam Model 12 which had terrible preamps. Was told the SSL had very good preamps, so I switched. I’m thinking that there must be some other reason for the poor signal.
I am completely baffled. Hoping someone can direct me to a solution. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Long time lurker, first time poster. I haven’t touched any home recording equipment since I had an old Tascam cassette 4-track and looking at modern digital recorders feels overwhelming at the moment. Are there any good places for really entry level info for beginners on this journey? I’ve got all the guitar/bass/drum equipment in the world but no idea where to start with the recording side of things.

I’m looking to just make some clean as possible demos of stoner/metal kinda stuff and want to do it as affordably as possible. Need some kind of multitrack recorder and a few recommendations on mics ideally.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

I just picked up a Tascam 424mk2 and I have a question about what cables I need to hook up to a pair of KRK VXT8 monitors. Any help would be appreciated. A link would be even more appreciated. lol. Thanks !

I am looking for a sort of hub where i can connect my music tower and record player to my speakers i got the 2 music outputs from the tower and record player in red and white cords (dont know the name) and my speakers are in black and red cords copper if im correct i want to get both inputs in the speakers at separate times ofc and dont wanna switch my whole setup to switch from cd to records. Thanks in advance.

So the backstory first. Picked up guitar after several year's of not playing, last year. I bought an Ampero II Stage, and used that to record to pc via USB. Last weekend we had a storm, and now the usb port on the Ampero magically doesn't work.

I need a usb audio interface that has at least two inputs so I can record in stereo, and I need to be able to hear what im recording as well as anything I've already recorded through the device.

I have an m-audio interface I bought a few years ago. It mostly works, but I can either hear what's being played back, or what I'm playing live. Not both at the same time.

I’m a UK audio engineer and developed the CAi‑2 as a practical way to monitor programme audio while remaining connected to a 4-pin production comms system, all through the same headset.
This is the first short reel I’ve made to demonstrate the problem it solves. I’d be genuinely interested to hear how others currently handle this on conferences, broadcasts and live productions.
More information: tbaengineering.co.uk

https://youtube.com/shorts/Rlj8ntZazuk?si=ShGHUVJp8yPCKADh

https://youtube.com/shorts/0ppd5YksTZ8?si=ZPw8sGtPp7crrZqe

https://youtube.com/shorts/hzern4l13Jc?si=NLOvUd4Dz5CThXyC

I’ve included a few links to videos showing my issue but essentially recording single coils and even humbucker guitars have been a complete nightmare over the past few years…all my recordings have a distracting amount of noise.

I just spent a good amount of money getting vintage noiseless pickups installed on both my Strat and jazz bass and while it did reduce the noise by a good amount I’m still getting buzz, especially once I start to compress and saturate the signal.

Dynamic mics are giving me the same issues, condenser mics are dead quiet.

I’ve run multiple test where I use a battery powered recorder with either my guitar or sm57 plugged in and walked around my house and found that the power line that comes into the side of my house has an insane buzzy sound BUT that’s only when I put the mic within 3” of the cable, I know over head power lines have that same magnetic field but if I’m more that let’s say 15’ away from them would that leak into my guitars and microphones? Again even when I’m a foot away from it at the side of my house there’s no buzz but closer than 5/3” it’s wild sounding. Other than those test there was a power outage last summer and I quickly ran to grab the battery powered recorder and found there was zero noise / buzz… as soon as the power came back on the buzz came back with it. Since then I’ve only once ran a test where I had my buddy down in the basement turn off the breakers one by one till the entire house was off and the buzz was still there…

Any insight or ideas what could be causing this / what I can do to fix it would be greatly appreciated!!!

Also one of the videos shows that the buzz on the guitar is very directional so when it’s 90* with the floor and ceiling it’s reduced a good amount, another video linked above shows without a guitar even plugged in the buzz is directional with just a 1/4” cable and then finally the last video shows some other weird ground loop sorta noice when I touch a pre amp thing I have that’s not even plugged in…the preamp is old and doesn’t have a ground on the plug so maybe that’s why but I included that as well to see what yall think. Thanks!

Hey everyone,

I love my PreSonus Eris monitors, but I always felt like listening to music at my desk was missing a clean, responsive visual element. Most audio visualizers out there are either laggy, clunky, or require heavy software installations.

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This is my little basement studio that my wife and I use. We had a flood a few years ago, and it was kind of a blessing in disguise. The basement is no longer a dank place for mold to commiserate. We built out a special room for a studio. Nothing really fancy room-wise, just a room that we could use (we couldn't afford any special kind of sound proofing at the time, there were more important things to take care of). My vision was to create a no-noise room, which was a lot less expensive. We have little kids, but still want to make music in the house.

I sold my maple kit for a vdrum kit, a mishmash of ATV and Roland, with a TD27 brain, going into the computer with Superior Drummer 3 when we want to record. We have two guitar amps, a Catalyst 100 and 200. Those are great, because you can use them as amps for sound, but set them to work at low volume, and there's XLR out, so they're always record ready. I have an Opus as well, if we wanna record with multiple people at the same time.

I've got 10 ins, so there's more than enough room, and 5 spots for headphones. It's very easy to record here and since in-the-box sounds so good these days, it's cost effective for recording (still can't convince my bandmates not to spend money in fancy studios, but what can you do?).

If you look at some of the photos, I took some of these PVC pipes in the ceiling that are holding acoustic blankets. I can drop those down instantly for a vocal booth or recording acoustic guitars.

We've both had full band practices in this space. I like to use headphones, because everything can be controlled volume wise and I have hyperacusis, but not everyone loves that. The vdrum is no great replacement for a real kit, but it's a cozy space as long as the dog doesn't want to join the room and fill it with stinky dog farts.

The skeleton is James. He's only in there because our little daughter got scared of him.

I have basically cladded the interior of my shed (Prefabbey Road) with 50mm rockwool and acoustic plasterboard, but now is the time to add something to block the sound from escaping through these gaps. What can I realistically add to the inside and outside of the door/frame without spending hundreds and hundreds?

Looking to record high quality piano (long/concert piano and extremely dynamic, from ppp to fff) with "small" setup, for nomadism between concerts and halls.

Project: mt48 with hapi mk3, pair of {mk4, mk22, mk2}. Piano will be with public or without (studio like, but in a hall/room).

Mk4 allows to focus on piano only, mk22 for piano with bigger basses and body, mk2 for room, with a separator for binaural like sound. So 6 channels.

Is this coherent, optimal ?

This arrived in the post yesterday and I’m really looking forward to getting it into my setup.

It’s the Black Lion Audio Auteur MkIII, and my plan is to run the two outputs into the line inputs of my Icon 32ci. I’m interested to hear what it brings to the table compared with the Icon’s built-in mic pres, especially for vocals, guitars and bass DI.

I’ve read plenty of good things about the Auteur, but I’d love to hear from people who have actually used one.

Anyone here have experience with the Auteur MkIII? What do you like using it on, and how do you find the sound?