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  1. 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. 

  2. 4 hours ago, Glenn Stanton said:

    and esp if you don't have A/V exceptions for the CW (and any related apps and folder) as the latest MS defender is not only trying to "cloud protect" you but also then uploading to the Internet while scanning all kinds of possible "signatures" which eat the disk IO alive. by adding exceptions to CW, Melodyne, and other apps and tools, even with the network on, my load times are very fast - 2 second for CW to load and about 5-10 seconds for most projects (unless i have a lot of Kontakt instruments to load, then 20-30 seconds for 5-8 instruments and about 6gb of their content).

    Where do you put these exceptions? 

  3. On 10/26/2023 at 10:42 AM, John Vere said:

    Your SDD drive can absolutely cause this issue. Just last winter I started having problems and a new drive completely solved it. 
    I use Samsung SSD drives and they have a app called the Magician. You can run that to analyze.
    But best of all it will clone any drive including you OS drive and you just swap it out and carry on. Took 20 minutes. I bought two 500 GB drives at $50 each and it was like getting a new computer.  

    The drives start to slow down after so many read/ write cycles and recording will do that. 
     

    The other thing comes to mind is there’s always a big chance of a plug in causing you grief and looking at meters might not clue you in. I can’t use Isotope stuff at all as example.  
    All you can do is remove them one by one until you find the culprit. 
    And one last item is to make sure your system is optimized by running this https://www.resplendence.com/latencymon

    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.

  4. On 10/16/2023 at 6:32 PM, T Boog said:

    Hi guys. I have two identical Samsung A32 phones. In one of the phones this forum is now in super small print/full page view like it would be in desktop view but it's not. In the other phone, the forum is in normal, large print. Other websites work fine on both phones so I don't think it's a phone setting. Any clues guys on how to fix this? Thanks!

    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.

  5. On 10/16/2023 at 3:39 PM, John Vere said:

    For this reason I just use the Arranger track now. You can use it to show lyrics and chords. And the arranger track has multiple lanes too. 

    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.

  6. On 10/17/2023 at 10:01 AM, Glenn Stanton said:

    i keep the licenses on my ilok and waves thumb drives, then use the installers to install the plugins (as expected) but use freefile sync to keep the plugin folders, settings / presets, and content sync'd to the cloud and then sync from cloud to devices (laptop and desktop machines). whichever machine is the "current one" where i may have installed updates or new presets, overwrites the cloud set and then the switchover is simply move the USB keys and hit the sync, and after a few minutes (most times) it's all done. application updates occur via the vendor plugin managers as normal.

    the nice thing about the keys and cloud - if i'm doing something with my friends setup, i can quickly load the plugins, load the presets and content, and activate and get to work. although most times i'll just bring my laptop and drives. 🙂 

    Thanks. I just downloaded FreeFileSync. The granularity and ability to control sync direction sold me.

    On 10/17/2023 at 4:28 PM, Glenn Stanton said:

    if you use a high quality usb key (don't skimp on this) to host your Waves licenses,

    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.

  7. 2 hours ago, El Diablo said:

    Can you Render the whole project without exporting it to a file in Cakewalk?

     

    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. 

  8. 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.

  9. 3 hours ago, Pathfinder said:

    I have read 13th gen really needs liquid cooling to run best. I am a fan guy. Huge fans  and they work for me.

    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.

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  10. 16 hours ago, sjoens said:

    I have seen no benefit or improvement in 11.  Just the opposite for me.  I prefer 10 but updates will eventually cease.  And some older systems can't run 11.

    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.

     

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  11. 7 hours ago, JohnnyV said:

    They will always tell older folks that they need hearing aids. I took the test at the request of my wife when she was being fitted for her 3rd pair. This is a very expensive handicap!  They give you a print out that shows your EQ curve which for us audio engineers we  can fully understand what that is. My results look almost exactly like my wife's!  A drop off beyond 800hz that falls off the scale.   

    But- my wife is very hard of hearing.  I will agree my hearing is fading but not any where as bad as hers. If she is not wearing them somebody can be ringing the doorbell and she won't hear it. Lot's of examples of how my hearing is possibly still at 85% but hers is probably as bad as 50%.  I can hear a high pitched whine from dimmed lighting!   So why the same results and advice to purchase a pair.

    I play in a duo with long time music partner Curt. He's still a smoking Banjo player as well as he  plays bass in a 12 piece R&B band. He is like my wife and has used hearing aids for over 10 year now too. He is the guy who asks for the floor wedges to be on the edge of killing you. He insists on using  vocal mikes in the front room for rehearsals. His newest aids have a special EQ setting for music which he say's is working a bit better, in the past he couldn't wear them as it sounded awful. We can't convince him he needs in ear monitors! At least bass is an instrument that is usually easy to hear on stage, but he always wants his amp louder than the sound man and band mates do. And Banjo's are REAL LOUD. but he still struggles in coffee house acoustic gigs. With his aid in! 

    We also have a close friend Michael from Arizona who spends the summer here who finally bought new hearing aids. Last year we noticed he wasn't understanding other sides of conversations and had a bad habit of always going " Hmm, and uh Hau"   you talked. He was a social outcast. He had cheap hearing aids that obviously were not working. He is like a different person now.

    What I learned from these 3 people is that you need GOOD hearing aids. Some brands just don't work as well. The good ones are well over $3 grand in Canada.   Michael and my wife are now using Oticon aids. Curt bought his from Costco as were my wife's last pair, and seems they are not really working to me. 

    A hearing aid is an overpriced In Ear monitor ( headphone ear bud) with a built in mike and pre amp. The good ones have processing which is very basic EQ. 

    Which brings me to my other experience with hearing loss.  I worked in a Care Facility for 6 years. Hearing aid don't go well with dementia. They will  take them out and loose them in a short time. For our events we bought what are known as "Pocket talkers." A set of cheap airplane style, foam  headphones paired with a body pack with a mike and a amp built in. The price range of these goes from $30 to $1,000. We found a brand for $150 that were outstanding sound quality. I highly recommend these for people who would still need a boost for things like church services. Better sound quality at a fraction of the cost. 

    Sorry for the long story but I sort of needed to qualify my answer which is "no"   

    Your brain adjusts to deficiencies as we age. Our studio monitors have been with us for a long time and we learn to know what a good mix sounds like on those even as our hearing declines.  And any set of good studio headphone will have way better sound quality than even the highest priced hearing aids.  

     

     

    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:)

     

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  12. 7 hours ago, Colin Nicholls said:

    I recently got hearing aids and I can tell you that I would not try to mix with them in. But I guess it depends on the shape of your audiogram. I have some low-mid-range loss and regular music sounds good to me when i turn it up a bit.

    If I have my hearing aids in, they tend to do strange things like, comb filtering and sudden adjustments. I know there are settings for reducing this but they still try to be "intelligent, reactive" devices rather than passive.

    I much prefer taking my deficiency into account during mixing, and paying attention to the frequency spread visualization to make sure I'm not missing something. 

    But you may not have that luxury.

    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.

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

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