I have owned this sound card (https://www.m-audio.com/legacy/m-track.html) for at least 10 years and use it to record midi piano and electric guitar. I am not particularly happy with the sound of the guitar but I don't understand that it depends on the sound interface or on my guitar/software. In any case, do you think it makes sense to upgrade to a focusrite solo or similar? In terms of technical specifications is it actually better? Thanks for your help.

Title is a bit awkward, my question regards the following;

Until the 80s, albums came out on vinyl records (sometimes casette) so the way they were mixed and mastered reflected the sonic limitations of that medium. CDs obviously changed the game in a big way, offering more volume and dynamic range.

A lot of albums from the mid-late 80s (that i've listened to) don't seem to be using the full potential of the new digital medium, and as such, the CD versions don't offer a much different (let alone potentially 'better') experience than vinyls.

So my question is, at what point does mixing/mastering start changing to take advantage of CDs as a medium?

Whenever I use a high pass or lowpass on anything with a lot of tones in the midrange like vocals, pianos, or synths the sound get thick and distorted almost static like, it's not a glitch or computer related and I know it's just what naturally happens I'd just like to know why and if there's a way to clean it up so it sounds smooth and round?. I've only ever used abletons 8band eq and autofilter and getting rid of this harshness has always been annoying me.

I've been watching Rick Beato's "What Makes This Song Great" series, and I really enjoy how he breaks down songs by isolating individual tracks (like drums, vocals, guitar, etc.). I’d love to get my hands on some multi-track versions of certain songs for analysis and enjoyment. Does anyone know where I can find songs with separate stems available?

I’ve tried using AI tools to separate the tracks, but the results aren’t quite the same as having the original stems of the song.

ISSUE: My guest used a corded Apple Headset and mic usually not an issue but his mic kept rubbing on his collar. My editor is trying to remove the rubbing sound when the guest is talking. So we have audio with guest talking + mic rubbing scratching happening at the same time. When the guest is not talking we can just mute these scratches/mic rubbing but not when he is talking obviously.

PROGRAM: Adobe Audition Version 24.6 (latest version)

ALREADY UNSUCCESSFULLY TRIED:
Remove Clicks and Pops (Scratches)

If there are clicks, pops, or scratches in your audio, Adobe Audition has tools to fix that:

Automatic Click Removal

Select the audio track (or just the part with the clicks).

Go to Effects > Noise Reduction / Restoration > Automatic Click Remover.

In the pop-up window:

Set Sensitivity: Start with a value between 5-7 (higher values will remove more aggressive clicks).

Adjust the Threshold if necessary.

Click Apply to remove clicks and scratches.

Looking for help with this please. Bring on the Adobe Audition experts.

Do you know any audio software (standalone or plugin) that can search and find the positon of a specific audio sample in a long audio file? (Just like the ones that Youtube and Shazam use for content detection)

I need to edit long broadcast files, find commercial breaks and cut them out, so it's like searching in a Word document for a specific word. I'll search for `Station ID Jingles` marking the IN and OUT points of commercial segments and the editing process will be quicker.

Any ideas?

So I've got this mic with my audio interface, and I need to crank up the input to even get some sound.

Here is some examples I just recorded, two acoustic guitar recordings, one fingerpicked and one strummed

• Fingerpicking : https://vocaroo.com/17fKpoxkSAMI

• Strummed with a pick : https://vocaroo.com/18oZVyCbLxJF

Mic position at around 5 or 7 inch (15/20cm) for the guitar, positionned at fret 12 pointing directly toward the fret

Input level on the 2i2 at 100% for both recordings

The levels I managed to get with no processing or normalisation

• Fingerpicking : -24db to -18db with rare peaks at -15db

• Strumming with a pick : -21db to -12

Also notice a weird electronic noise at the end of the Strummed recording.

Is there something wrong here? That seems low. And even for vocals I need to put it at 100% to get a good input level.

Hey everyone! I’m working on cleaning up the sound of my music and was wondering if anyone knows of any plugins that could help achieve a cleaner mix? I’d really appreciate any suggestions you might have.

If you’re up for it, I’d love for you to give my track a listen and provide some feedback on what specifically could be improved or what plugins I might need. And feel free to drop your own music too—I’m always down to hear new tunes! Thanks in advance!

I used to use the TASCAM - 006 for recording Music and instrumentals. Will this work well for recording audio for a short film? Beginner here, thank you for any help that might come my way. I am aware that the model is marketed for 6 track consumer music production. Let me know what recommendation you have for digital sound recorders, if any.

Hi guys, I hope someone can help me out. I am looking for a recording app in iOS that will be able to give me a 16 bit / 16 kHz mono WAV output as the app I normally use (voice recorder) doesn’t give me this output. Does anyone know of a recommended app that could do this? (Doesn’t have to be free of charge). I can’t seem to find any in the App Store that matches all requirements at the same time, and for many you can only see the editing features after you buy.

Hey all, as of right now, the only example I can find of this is in this short and the effect I am talking about is the crispy effect that is immediately noticeable in RFK's voice. How can I obtain a similar effect?

I hope that from this short video you can get an approximate idea of what I want and what I have done so far

My goal is simple: to be able to remove a gunshot sound from an audio as if it wasn't even there. I have recorded some gameplay where my character fires a sniper rifle, and I also recorded the gunshot sound spearately. Then went into an audio editing program I found, inverted the phase of the shot and tried lining them up manually, however, the result in the video is about the best it can sound and, being a total noob, i'm outta ideas. It sounds like it has a suppressor now, which is better than nothing, but far from the imagined goal. How can I improve this? Is my approach even reasonable? What could have gone wrong and where do I go from here?

Hey guys!

I have a question about a wireless setup for audio interfaces, maybe someone knows something about this.

I own a Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 Gen 3 audio interface (plugged into my Laptop with a USB-C), and I use it mainly for plugging in my guitar using the 1/4" inputs, and also for work/gaming for which I use my HyperX cloud II wired headset with the cable going into an AUX in to 1/4" out adapter, which plugs into the headphones 1/4" port on my Scarlett.

Recently my headphones' cable started making connectivity problems and they're getting old anyway, and so I thought it is a good opportunity to try and turn my set up wireless. So basically, what I would like to do, is use my Scarlett entirely wirelessly -- this includes both the guitar and headphones.

• For the guitar I know there are transmitters and receivers which you can plug in on your guitar at one end and at your amplifier at the other end, and they use bluetooth or some other protocol (I'm not big on RF knowledge haha) to transmit and receive the signal for the guitar. Would this be possible to do with the Focusrite? Have any of you had any experience with a setup as such?
• I'd like to do the same thing with headphones. I'm looking for new headphones, which you can use both wired and wirelessly (there is an option to plug in an AUX cable usually. Then, equivalent to the guitar solution, I found that there exist bluetooth transmitters which you can plug in for audio (mostly used for TVs). I assume there is some configuration in which I can make it work for the focusrite and the chosen headphones, analogically to how a wireless mouse functions with some sort of a dongle.

Would both of these ideas be possible to implement for my setup? If yes, what do I have to buy and where?

Final thing to note here is that I am not looking for the cheapest solution - that is, I'm not also looking to go all balls out and buy the best studio-grade equipment out there, but I'm looking for some long term solution that will satisfy my needs which also include lowest latency possible in terms of guitar recording and sound real time monitoring. It was told to me on another sub reddit that bluetooth won't be possible due to "asio/wasapi and they would have latency", and that I would need analogue transmission. Maybe some of you could elaborate upon that if that's true.

Anywho, if any of you have any ideas or can point me at a general direction that'd be awesome.

For more specific details or anything else, feel free to contact me at my discord: .xuph

Thank you!

Eric

Hello everyone.

I am really interested in acquiring knowledge and experience in creating my own covers for popular film scores, most notably Avatar (James Horner), and The Lion King (Hans Zimmer), among others.

Problem is, most tutorials I watch on YouTube on "how to create music in X" just show a person skimming through how to use the DAW and create a very basic trap/rap/hip-hop style beat, which is not what I am looking for. I am looking to create beautiful orchestral music, learn how to mix sounds together and how synthesizers, and what not.

I am not looking to turn this into a career or a side hustle, just as a hobby I engage with from time to time, so I am not looking to invest on hardware whatsoever. My question is, how far can I go creating music with just my laptop's keyboard and my headphones?

I have access to LinkedIn Learning from my college, would I benefit from using this as a resource on learning how to use the DAW (Logic Pro) first, then worry about the VSTs and mastering later? Do I need to learn music theory if all I am looking for is to create covers of some film score tracks?

I appreciate any and all support I get from this post.

I have the trial for the Zynaptiq Orange Vocoder IV. I used the old version waaaay back in the early 2000s with Pro Tools and it was just magical how great it sounded.

I can't seem to figure out how to route MIDI (carrier signal?) to the Orange Vocoder IV plug-in to control it, along with the audio (mic) modulator signal.....can anyone explain this to me, please? I don't want to send recorded audio to the vocoder, I want to control it "live" just as you would with a hardware vocoder. I thought you do it with a Send, but but it doesn't seem to work. I have Reaper DAW and Reason 12 (both on Windows). Or if there's a how-to link that could work, I just can't seem to find one.

Many thanks in advance.

When connecting my audio interface (in this case, Scarlett 18i8) to my patch bay (SPatchPlus 48), am I meant to use "thru" mode for the interface ins and outs?

I have the top row designated as inputs, so this would be connected to the outs of the Scarlett, and assuming it's running in thru mode, there should be no connection to the bottom row, which will be connected to the ins of the interface.

Do I have that right?

Just a tool I came across recently that isn’t talked about too much:

https://www.midiremap.com

For people like me who struggle with tedious tasks both time wise and attention wise, it’s an absolute godsend.

They have a free (!) plugin that automatically remaps midi for different drum instruments, so you can swap out your painstakingly programmed GGD drums to Superior Drummer instantly.

They also have pre-made sampler patterns for less than the price of a cup of coffee. I now have beautifully labelled Logic Sampler configs for GGD Modern and Massive, Krimh Drums, Steven Slate, ML Drums. Yes I could do these by myself but for €1.50 each it’s a BARGAIN to get that time back.

Nothing shows up in the CD audio files. For the WAV files I uploaded to the production house, the tags are ID3v2.3.0 and show up in Kid3 app under Tag 2 and Tag 3 (RIFF) but Tag 1 is blank. Does any of this explain why nothing shows up in a CD player?

Edit: I have a music CD from another artist (no idea what kind of CD it is tho) and the tags show in VLC, and in the editor (curiously, in the "general" tab not the "metadata" tab.) All tracks are WAV files.

Hi guys, I’ve come to an issue and that is whenever I send an parallel compression or bus from my sends to a tracks it gets a flangy out of phase sound.. Never had an issue with that till now. Anyone knows whats up? Thanks for help.

...what else should I consider that is a relatively inexpensive cardioid vocal mic? My SM-58 is 10 years old, but I have finally dropped it too many times. I still have an SM-57 that can work as a vocal mic, but I prefer to keep it for close guitar micing. Anything else out there rock-solid for live shows in particular?

I'm been experimenting with what I think is a useful technique I read about someplace, but I don't know. For the main vocal, I double it (same thing in A and B tracks) and on one I EQ it to bass (roll off the highs) and the other I EQ to treble (roll off the lows) and pan the tracks L and R...the result is a really solid vocal sound. Does everybody do this?

I've been a home recorder for some time. Looking for recommendations on who to work with for mastering? I want to try for a more polished album. I don't even know whats considered reasonable for pricing but I am constrained by cost to some degree. Probably gonna be 25 minutes of material. Local options don't exist or are very limited. Thanks for your suggestions!

Hi guys,

I've noticed that when I convert a wav file of a dj mix I've made of (say) an hour in length, I sometimes get a period of silence beginning at the end of the audio. When I go to play the file in Foobar, the duration of what should be 1 hour or so of audio shows up as 9 hours (or some similar duration) and the last 8 hours of the file are silence. I open up the original wav (or the mp3) in audio editors like Wavelab or Audacity and the silence isn't there. Anyone have any idea what's going on? Appreciate any assistance.

I have a simple setup. I have a mic, camera, Korg synth (Korg Opsix MkII FM), and a 4-channel Traktor DJ controller (Traktor Kontrol S8 |terrible built-in audio interface) with simple studio monitors. I also stream my DJ sets occasionally on Twitch using OBS. This could evolve into streaming a talk show with overseas guests coming in via Skype, Signal, or Facebook Video Chat.

I'm not looking to expand beyond this in terms of outboard gear.

I do a lot of remixes, mashups, and recorded DJ sets, however, I'm branching off into production by incorporating my synth and samples from the S8. I'll probably use Cuebase for now because I know my way around a little but will probably move to Ableton eventually.

Based on my input and output requirements outlined above, what model audio interface do you recommend I get from the manufacturers shown below? Ideally, I'd like to go stereo out with the synth and DJ controller.

Based on my online research, I like the quality of Arturia, Audient, and Focusrite. But other options are welcome.

I'm also open to going with a digital mixer like the Soundcraft EFX12 or the Zoom LiveTrak L-12, However, I don't want any of the noise issues commonly associated with cheap mixers found in models like the TASCAM Model 12.

Keeping the budget under $500 to $600 would be a bonus. My top pick is the Arturia AudioFuse Studio USB Audio Interface, however it's a little out of my budget for now.

Thanks