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I'm new to field recording but not studio recording. I'd like to buy a portable recorder and mic for under $400 US (approximately). Having researched online, can I get away with a cheaper recording ...

Does anyone know by what mechanisms the Software Automatic Mouth (SAM) that is used for text-to-speech on machines including Commodore computers synthesized speech? The manual for the product mentions ...

I have recorded some hold music from a telephone call using the headphone out jack from my smartphone, running to the line-in of my Focusrite audio interface and from there to Audacity running on the ...

So i am using headphones like normal iPhone earbuds in my pc. since it doesnt have a mic i bought a separate lapel mic. Now when i use my heaphones, the stereo works fine (i can tell the difference ...

I'm trying to get better sound design and I wanted to tackle the area of digital sounds for UI that you'd see in a sci-fi thriller or something like that. Something like the sounds at the beginning of ...

I'm deaf for high pitched sounds (above 6 KHz) in my left ear. This means when I'm listening to music with headphones I miss part of the percursive or higher harmonic sounds. If I try to balance the ...

I have a Logitech G533 wireless headphone which works with a USB-A dongle tx/rx. I used it's dongle to connect the headset with various devices, without problem, as follows: 1. Personal computer USB ...

I tried and compared all of these preset´s configurations. The idea is to get and rich out the BEST QUALITY of SOUND POSIBLE, Don´t care the file size. With the best Bass or Low Frecuencies, and not ...

I am using Zoom G3xn as multieffect for my guitar and when I plug my headphones directly to Zoom and use some overdrive patches, quality is perfect, but when I plug output of Zoom into instrument ...

This is largely hypothetical: the answers I receive here will determine whether or not I and the peope involved even move forward with this project. I am part of a group hoping to build a series of ...

Want to connect two headphones with mic so that two persons can talk over it as over a phone call. Please Help. Thank you

I have a Universal Audio Apollo Twin DUO, but the drivers seem to hate my desktop the more I use it (frequent buzzing/beeping/loss of audio), which requires frequent and annoying turn off/on ...

I'm building a bluetooth speaker, but I'm not satisfacted with the low frequencies, so I decided to add a subwoofer. At the moment I haven't decided which subwoofer exactly, but I'll will be a 4 or 8 ...

I'm sure there's a knack to it, and hopefully I'm not being too dumb, but does anyone have any tips on how to remove this device from one of our cables? https://www.digitec.ch/en/s1/product/neutrik-4-...

I'm a pianist looking to buy a (portable) recording device to record myself both in concert and in the practice room. Reading about the various kinds of devices on the market I noticed many recorders ...

I have a few tracks saved on Windows using the Poizone VST in FL Studio without saving any preset sounds from the tracks. I then received a Macbook Pro at work which I excitedly installed FL Studio ...

I have two audios, one of which has an additional voice in it that I want to extract. I have tried noise reduction with the cleaner version as is suggested at https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/...

I need the box to block at least 40 dB of sound. The interior size can be as large as a shoebox. I'm thinking about using a plastic box as a frame, and then pad 2 layers of Dynamat or (one layer on ...

I designed a circuit which would turn on LEDs with intensity of the music (music reactive LEDs). I tested this using a portable Chinese speaker and it worked amazing. This makes me think that the ...

This is my recording setup Shure SM7B DBX 286S Focusrite 2i2 2nd Gen I use screencast and a mac to record it. Am listening to constant click sounds when I record the screencast. For sure it's not ...

So for months I've taken a few hours out of my time to set up my audio interface (scarlett 2i2) and try to learn how to use a DAW (FL studio 11). I am trying to stream myself playing and need to have ...

I have this old Philips mic, it doesn't have a regular XLR connector but rather two strange smaller connectors, a three-pin and a five-pin. Is it possible to connect this mic to a modern recorder, ...

A slightly odd question, but hopefully somebody will be able to help! Around 15 years ago, I had a really old computer running Windows 98 which had, from memory, a pair of speakers connected via 3.5. ...

A while back I saw a song edit on twitter I sparked an interest with and I wanna see if I can do it myself. Anyway how and what program I can achieve this with? https://twitter.com/Waltmann13/status/...

I'm a mobile DJ so I'm setting up my circus tent and breaking it down multiple times a week. Staying organized really helps, and anything that can save time is precious. Currently I have a sub and ...

I have a Newley rented space long32 ft.xwide10ft.x height 10 ft. with no windows ,My students are sitting there and play a guitar,keyboard,flute etc. as this is a rented space I am tight on my budget ...

I'm looking for some technical advice for a correct voice-recording setup using a pro-level lavalier mic for speaking (no video)—like a RØDE Lavalier, for instance—with input into either a laptop with ...

In Nexus VST, there is a Preset called Muted Guitar, its used by many producers out there, specially in the Nu Disco Subgenre. However I cant buy Nexus at the moment, I have Serum, Spire, Sylenth and ...

I want to send balanced audio from one room to another in my home. The audio will originate from a Soundcraft Spirit Folio 12/2 mixing console desk. I'm assuming that the mix left/right and/or aux 1/...

I'm looking at the schematic on page 20 of the manual and am not sure myself if the outputs are balanced or unbalanced. I would like to plug stereo outputs using balanced 6.35mm jacks from either Mix ...

Wouldn't a simple rounded tip cylinder be good enough? Why does it have a diamond shaped arrow tip?

could you help me identify a couple of sound effects? (0:31 and 0:58) Your help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

I'm a filmmaker, and I want to buy a Rode Videmic Pro. Both for field recording, and voice-overs. (https://www.amazon.com/Rode-VideoMicPro-Directional-Microphone-Shockmount/dp/B00YAZHRZM/ref=...

I just got synthesizer roland D5 from family member and trying to playing some piano patch but sounds really bad. Can roland D5 have grand piano sounds or acoustic piano sound? Please let me know how ...

I am working with Arduino which activates a box which is similar to a Skinner Box. Some of the output sound stimuli are sine waves with duration of less then 5 milliseconds. I output the sounds using ...

I have an USB microphone that has a gain control knob. As I understand, the gain here means the voltage amplifier gain inside the microphone. USB microphone will have an maximum output voltage of 5V, ...

Can u please help me? I have an audio recording that has a very low volume. When I try to amplify and normalize using audacity, the distortion and noise make it impossible to understand the words that ...

I hope I am posting this in the correct stack exchange, I am currently researching on musical instruments, particularly the Erhu and Shamisen, and have come into 2 interesting constructs. I have ...

I have a Yeti Blue mic that I am now setting up. I got the 3/8 to 5/8 thread adapter, but the mic is just too high up the horizontal boom arm, so I actually wanted to drop it down a bit. I was ...

I know absolutely nothing about sound to be clear. I would like to know the cheapest way to get a pa system for my band. We are a four piece indie band who play small venues like bars/pubs. I was ...

I plugged a mic/headphone Y spliter on my smartphone. My PC sends sound output to my Android phone (Huawei) from a 3.5mm jack plugged to the mic connector of the spliter mentioned above, which ...

Lets say we have a wav file - 96000 hz sample rate. And lets say we play this file. Is it possible to find something like an external soundcard/ specialized usb dongle that could automatically record ...

I've been meaning to start making videos of covers of songs with vocals and acoustic guitar, so i purchased a Shure M58 microphone with a blue icicle XLR-USB. My Laptop is a macbookpro with touchbar ...

I am an algorithmic composer with a library of over one hundred .SFZ files. I have been generating a bunch of single-track MIDI files using midiutil in python, and then manually opening up Sforzando ...

I've got a Behringer X32 mixer. I'm using it's built-in recording capability to write a .wav file to an USB drive. Today, I got an incomplete recording: the file on the USB drive shows up as 0 kb size....

I have two audio tracks, X and Y, which are similar, but both have things added to them. I want to take X and Y, and produce a new track Z with only the lower value of every frequency of each track ...

I am taking sound samples (simple tones) and playing them back on a Gameboy. This hardware has 32 4-bit samples played back in loop at a frequency chosen by the programmer. Consequences to this is ...

I burned a CD in Windows Media Player. The tracks have artist and song title on them on my computer, but once they’re on the CD, that metadata shows up when the CD is viewed with Windows Media Player (...

It seems rare to have the lead singer record/overdub their own backup vocals in professional settings, but does the quality actually suffer, and does anyone know of any side-by-side comparison?

Beginner here, so I’m sorry if this is a stupid question. Trying to make a binaural asmr video. I record with 2 xlr mics, and a zoom h4n. When saving audio, it saves as one audio file, so I am unable ...