Bill Phillips

I often record audio from YouTube and other internet sources. I use either the analog, wifi or spdif Realtek stereo audio outputs to my monitor controller aux input. I then patch that to an stereo input on my analog audio interface and record that. My audio interface doesn't support loopback. So I think routing thru the monitor controller is necessary to avoid feedback.

What's the "mix recall trick? "

Ok. Got it. Thanks @sjoens and @Brad Scholz.

It's gone. Did you delete it?

Where do you put these exceptions?

Me too.

Thank you! All drives in my new DAW are Samsung. I've been using 3rd party cloning software when I need it which isn't often but now I can use Magician which also has a lot of testing and troubleshooting features. I opened it up and learned that my 3 new M.2 PCIe drives needed firmware updates which I did all at once and very quickly. Thanks again.

Ditto that. He's a valuable contributor and resource.

I often ave this same problem using either Chrome or Firefox on my S20 FE, but not always. I assumed it was a problem with the display setup in the email itself. Next time I see it, which will be soon, I'm going to look for email and browser settings that might be causing the problem.

This looks like the solution to so many of the thing people are trying to accomplish with markers and much more. I haven't learned to use it yet, but I'm hoping to as soon as my DAW is back in operation.

Thanks. I just downloaded FreeFileSync. The granularity and ability to control sync direction sold me. I'm wondering what you mean by high quality. Waves tech support told me I could use any USB drive and that even the smallest one would have much more capacity than I need for my < 30 plugins. So I plan to use one of the SanDisk 8GB drives I use for clean installing Windows.

If your DAW can't handle playing the full project back without clicks, pops and dropouts, you can freeze all tracks to reduce the processing load before playing back the project. Maybe that's what Reaper is calling a dry run.

That's not possible. In the context of a DAW, to render is to export. A dry run would be playing the final mix without exporting. Most, if not all, DAWs support that. If you're worried about bit reduction artifacts plugins like iZotope's Ozone have that capability.

This video, made by a musician with time on his hands, and showing testing he did to compare a bunch of mics, was posted on the Production Expert blog. I'm sure a lot of you have seen it. But I decided to post it here because it's shows so clearly what the overall frequency response differences are and, if you want the graphs, he suggests that you can pause the video on the graphs you want and take a screenshot. There's probably plenty of other differences, which may or may not be important, that he doesn't discuss; but I think his work provides really useful information for selecting mics to buy and use.

Read the review. It does.

I have a 13900K and I'm using This air cooler called the best by Tom's Hardware in its review. It is big, has 2 towers, 2, 120 mm fans, and room for a third. I'm using the Phantom Spirit SE which has one more tube and is a little shorter than the one reviewed. If I need the third fan I'll use a 90 mm one because a 120 mm fan would be sitting on the RAM and stick ou above the top of the cooler. I like a lot of fans too. I have 6 bequiet 140 mm PWM Wings Pro 4 case fans. I can't hear a thing with the case cover off and my head in the opening. I'm still installing software and haven't loaded it up at all, but, I think, Tom's Hardware tested it up o 200 Watts.

I agree. No improvements, though I have not been able to use CbB very much so far, mostly just testing, as I'm still adding programs to my new DAW. I haven't seen any problems that going back to Windows 10 would solve. For me, Windows 11 Pro is just as intuitive as Windows 10 Pro if not better. There may be some downsides to some of the security improvements in 11, but I haven't noticed them. I also seem to reading a recommendation, I think in Tom's Hardware that Windows 11 Pro is a better choice because, I think, it's more configurable, though most of the extra stuff only comes into play if your PC will be part of a managed domain.

Ok. I get the point. Question withdrawn.

I'm lost at "1. Open the Steam client." I'm not familiar with Steam. Is it the StEAM online gaming platform or something else?

Is 27.12.00 the last version of the Reference Guide?

Thanks. I like long stories. They tend to put things in perspective. My wife's hearing aids were expensive. She bought them from her audiologist. But on the rare occasions we go out to listen to live music she ends up taking them out because of the strange loud sounds they make. I've used single speaker Shure in ear bluetooth monitors for years for casual listening and ambient noise cancellation; but they can vary from too bassie to no bass at all depending on placement in my ear canal. So I don't use them for mixing, and there's also that bluetooth latency. I've also thought about apply EQ to the master channel after all other effects including analyzers aimed at canceling my hearing loss to see what that does. I have lots of bass trapping my small room and the sound, when I've tested it, is pretty good at the listening position. I have a big high Q cut at 6k (about 30 dB). I've got a feeling if I mirror that with a boost it isn't going to sound very realistic even to me. And it might be down right annoying to my wife in the living room watching TV:)

Thanks. That matches what I was expecting from hearing aids. Looking at curves from my hearing test which are steadily getting worse, you'd think I can't hear at all. Bit that's not my experience when I'm listening to music in my monitors or headphones. I can usually hear EQ changes; and, I too, have a frequency spectrum display up any time I'm analyzing and adjusting EQ or levels.

My wife and ENT tell me I need hearing aids (down more than 30db with a significant L/R difference, and huge 40db dips at 3-6k recovering at 8k. So not flat at all. I no that hearing aids are "tuned" for speech and to enhance the listening experience. So, I'm thinking they wouldn't be very useful in trying to determine how the music you're mixing sounds to everyone else. Hopefully some of you have tried it and can provide some guidance. Thanks. BTW, I searched the forum for "hearing aid" and only found a couple of instances where the phrase was used as a pejorative. No I'm guessing mixing while wearing hearing aids is a bad idea.

Has anyone evaluated or used PluginsMonitorFree? I just received an email add for this product but haven't downloaded it. I've always thought that Cakewalk does a pretty good job of scanning plugins and reporting runtime problems. So I'm not sure adding an active scanner would be worth whatever performance and reliability impacts it might have.

I can't help you but I'm interested in the answer. IIRC, RX uses the audio interface. So I'd assumed that I needed to close CbB before opening RX.