Hey all! Thanks for reading this and venturing to this subreddit. I just want to take a minute to tell you what my goal is for all this!

First off, I want this to be specifically for current and wannabe audio engineers. This isn't for composers and artists as well, like /r/WeAreTheMusicMakers is.

Second I want people to share tutorial videos, tips and tricks of their own, cool gear they find, whatever it is. I want people to be able to share all that stuff here. You'll notice I already just submitted a bunch of tutorials from one of my favorite websites, I did this just to get the ball rolling. I'll be submitting more videos and from other websites too.

Third I want you to be able to submit your work and get it critiqued in a very helpful way. Rather than just "that sucks" I want this to be a place where people can point out something you missed. Since we'll all be listening on different speakers (probably) then it will help you get an understanding of what your music actually sounds like to other people, rather than just hearing it on your monitors all the time.

Last, but not least, I want us all to be able to ask questions and get the help we need. Jump right in and ask any question you have!

Thanks again for reading!

During the late 80's, I did some recording, making parodies for my musical comedy act. We end up buying the equipment.

And now it's 2013. I shrug when I see the stuff. A Tascam Model 15 board, 24x8x2, 16 filled. It took about six strong adults to get it into the house. It is still pretty impressive, if only for its size. It had a lovely little hiss that it brought to every recording.

Next to it is a Tascam 80-8, 1/2" 8 track recorder that's probably so far out of alignment, it no longer works.

Gathering dust on top of the mixer are ancient rack peripherals, cables and a Tascam 464 4track cassette recorder and a Minidisc tiny recorder.

Never made the transition to computer-based recording, probably because we stopped recording. Guitar Center offers courses, but only for Mac-heads. Real men use linux :)

One extremely difficult part of computer recording, especially for me, is drums. Drums are difficult regardless, but if I want to put some drums in, I need to either learn to play them or program them. Too much work for me. Any suggestions welcome.

Used to monitor on JBL 4312's but things turned out better when I switched to a JBL consumer speaker. I guess the 12's were too flat.

I know there's some decent linux recording software. I guess after I get the drum thing straightened out, I'll start working with it. Bought a USB interface but it didn't seem to like linux (or perhaps I don't know enough about Jack to make it work).

Just saying hi - looks like a great forum has been born.

Hey everyone! Please use the comment section of this post to give any suggestions you have.

I'll do my best to implement whatever I can!

Could someone with broadcast or studio sound knowledge please ID the mic used by Colin on The Herd and the guys on Mike & Mike? I was a radio DJ for many years and I'm just curious as to how much these shows spend on their equipment. Thanks!

Here are a few pics (I think they're the same)

http://d13beo3f7vpmvd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/colin-cowherd-728x400.png

http://ww2.hdnux.com/photos/70/11/229977/3/1024x1024.jpg

I'm in the process of finishing up the mixes for my album, and I'm not sure if this is a problem or not. They always say to mix at 85dB, which I do, and when doing so the vocals in my mix are just barely loud enough, but then when the volume gets turned down, it sounds like the vocals are so loud they're sitting on top of everything else.

Has anybody else run into problems like this? Is this even a problem, and that's just songs are and I'm not noticing it on other tracks?

Advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

I have a YouTube channel talk-show entering its second year, and we were looking to up our game in the sound department. So, we switched from a shotgun mic to three lavalier mics for the cast. We run the mics through a small 12-channel mixing board (with 3.5 to 1/4" adapters) and record off of the aux out channel using a Zoom H2n. However, there is an annoying hissing sound on the recordings. After hours of testing, the board seems ok, the mics are ok, there's no grounding issues, and the cords are fine. It seems like the problem involves the 1/4" adapters and/or the lav mics not getting enough power. Can anyone please offer any suggestions for how to fix this problem? Thanks!

Hey all,

Quick Q - on a professional level, how are keyboards amplified? I'm in a band and I'm getting a Nord keyboard so I want to amplify it so that its quality is best retained. I usually just use the DI at most venues but I'm finding that some places we play have shitty monitors and my sound gets distorted. I am thinking of just using an amp instead but worried about it being mono.

SO I guess I have two questions - 1. How do the pros do it (in like big venues and stadiums)? and 2. What's a good solution for me at my current level?

THANKS!

Hi guys

Does any of you have some tips, thoughts or recommendations for how to isolate a radio studio properly? I'm an intern at a small danish radio station called Heartbeats. We just got a new office and even had a small radiostudio build in. The studio is approximately 2 x 2,5 meters and is going to be used for recording speak on radioshows and vocals for musical artists. However, the room is very poorly isolated from sound. You can easily hear people talking in the office when sitting in the box.

Any help is much appreciated! Thanks in advance

I'm confused between either the Mackie HRmk2 or the Genelec 8040A. What do you think?

Part of my setup includes a powered Velodyne Sub. It has a "gain" setting, which I'm guessing is a potentiometer. My mains are Dynaudio BM6a monitors and I've balanced the system overall with an SPL meter.

I'm always concerned with gain staging so I'm wondering if anyone knows how to determine where unity is for the sub. The pot only has what appear to be amplitude increase indicators - IE, plus 1,2,3,etc.

Seems like the right place for this. If not, sorry, it's my first time. Thanks!