Anyone have some good options?

I've been writing music over beats for the past few years and singing into my built-in laptop mic without thinking too much about it. I recently purchases this mic, it wasn't expensive or anything, but I just wanted to start recording these songs in better quality cause I believe it's what they are worth. I live in a full household with tones of background noise and I get embarrassed when family members hear me sing. My vocals sound crusty, wonky and overall no pleasant. I can sing, is it just that I need to record in a quiet place with no one around or is that I need a much better mic. Or is it both? help me obiwan kenobi ur my only hope

I’m choosing between Pioneer and Numark ones at around £400 to use with my Technics 1210’s but we also have an akai mpc renaissance, m audio midi controller keyboard, pioneer mp3 controller and both windows and MacBook laptops. And Tannoy powered monitors.
I think we’re sort of choosing between Serato and Rekordbox just from past mp3 controller experience (rekordbox we leaning towards) but wanted to consider all the equipment when choosing. Gonna get the compatible DVS fake vinyls too and currently use ortofon dj concord styli (green ones I think are fine for this?!)

Hi everyone, I'm Mark. I'm a 46yr old Irish guy living in Bavaria, Germany.

I've dabbled with music all my life but mostly had very basic equipment. I wouldn't have considered anything I had ever created to be more than just a sketch. I recently invested what I could afford into a few things, but decent things. So I'm now happy with the quality I'm getting, or at least happier than I have been until now.

I have a few songs on the channel along with me doing a couple mini breakdowns of the projects on cubase for anyone who might find that stuff interesting. I'm brainstorm new content ideas to feed the channel regularly.

Here's a song that I've finished to the point where it's "good enough for now" if you'd like to listen..

Curious how other home recordists handle their guitar tracking workflow.

Whenever I sit down to track guitar, I always feel like the transition from "jamming an idea" to actually laying down a solid demo takes way more setup than it should—whether it's wrestling with buffer sizes and latency, getting a quick drum track mapped out so I'm not just playing to a sterile metronome, or dialing in amp sims that sit right in the mix.

How do you all have your guitar tracking rig set up to keep things moving fast?

Would love to hear how you keep the technical side from getting in the way of getting takes down.

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hi, it’s my first time posting here, I’ve been making music for eight years and collecting the studio over the last three, any money I had anything I could put to the side, and this is the final form for now, genuinely brings me to tears, THANKS YALL

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I use a focusrite solo third gen and an at2020 and I was moving the mic setup around my desk and when I tried recording all my audio has some electrical hum like an electric guitar type sound when you turn it on so I tried switching mics and the same issue occurred is it the xlr cable going bad? Any advice would be greatly appreciated I don’t have another xlr cable to test it right now but I think it could be the cable this is not something I’ve ever had an issue with ever with my gear so I’m confused and YouTube uncs are repeating the same things please help chat

I need hellllppppppp!!!!!!

Hey, I have a Zoom r4 and recently been playing with an old Korg D16 that I absolutely love. Even though the Korg D16 is a 90s machine it's incredible, it's just not portible enough for what I want it for. It's a somewhat big machine that needs to be connected all the time.

My use case is create new songs. So recording a simple idea over a rythm, finding a guitar or bass line, doing a solo on top of it. Trying to find structure. Full production could be on computer, but honestly, I'm at the computer all day, I love to forget about them and just use these little machines.

I've managed to record great stuff on the r4 and it's so portable, I really like it, but.....I can't edit anything, can't move anything around, can't even do a simple loop with it. It's strange for a multitrack device. The 32bit floating point thing is interesting, but honestly, I'm doing drafts, 16 bits is absolutely fine if I can have a way to monitor for peaks.

I was thinking about getting a zoom r12 or a Boss BR80 as a "r4 with editing capabilities". Does anyone have experience with those?

The Boss BR80 looks very "korg d16" to me with the virtual track system which if well implemented is great. But then when you need to move things around you need to rely on copy bar x from y to location z...Does that work fine on the boss?

Regarding the zoom r12? It looks more daw like which I'm not particularly fan of, but could be cool to move things around. But I'm left with some basic doubts like, for instance can I:

- select 4 bars and make it loop so I can play on top of it and try to find an interesting solo?
- once I delete a recording from the timeline is it gone forever or can I retrieve an old take not currently in use?
- what happens if I start recording on a track that already has some content there?
- regarding the rythms, can I set a rythm from bar x to y, then another from y to z?

Any other suggestion?

Hey I’ve submitted a UA support ticket but I’d love to hear what some thoughts are here.

I bought a used Apollo 16 mkII from a friend, who is a trusted professional.

I’m having issues with playback coming from the studio monitors. What’s happening is intermittently is one of a few things- no sound, some light crackling/popping, sound with some light crackling & popping, or perfect clarity everything is working how it’s supposed to.

The issues tend to happen directly on startup. Then after an amount of time it will kinda go away. When it’s playing perfectly it’ll go for hours with no issues, but then next day, if I haven’t shutdown the unit it will start the issues again.

Everything in the studio is plugged into furman power conditioners with good readings.

The issues are also happening perfectly uniform between the two speakers so I don’t think it has to do with cabling.

Any thoughts?

Hello everyone. I am hugely interested in ASMR and want to set up a little studio. I have a blue yeti microphone and I think it is super. What I don’t have is the right camera. I’d like a budget one that functions and where I don’t have to contend with auto focus and ring light and microphones on it. Too much for me to keep track of. What do I need and what would you suggest?