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When you record a full band all night, you might make gain adjustments during the night. When you mix each song, normalizing the tracks gets the gain level into the fx fairly predictable from song to song. This way you can save time and mix faster. Each song will need adjusting, but it is something i will use.

I'm guessing as you get more practice mixing, this problem will burn off like a morning fog. Share your files and I'll do a mix and show you what I did. You may not like it, but you might.

I play on a couple of champs every week at a friend's. I play on my fender 4x10 at other times. It's is loud but sounds stunning. Deville. I use a rock crusher to cut the volume. Some tube amps have this built in now. The champs don't break up a ton. A distortion pedal might be useful with the champ. The are rivera amps that will diffuse some power prior to the speakers. Kinda a built in rock crusher. I think the internet has hurt chances of getting a super cheap local deal, but watch Craig's list. Stuff does pop up. https://seattle.craigslist.org/tac/msg/d/puyallup-crate-palamino-v8/7352179097.html

Seems like glitchy cache stuff to me. Recompute image?

You can set the meter to pre fader.

@Noel Borthwick isn't there a way to change the default snap value for volume faders with a right click?

Omg i went there! It's how i got to where i am today!

Automating clip gain before the compressor helps.

There is a way to disable all fx. My bet is you have accidentally done this. https://www.cakewalk.com/Documentation?product=SONAR&language=3&help=Mixing.30.html#:~:text=In the Control Bar's Mix,active project are temporarily bypassed.

Don't give up. We all struggled when we first started recording with computers. Play some music. Feel good. Revisit later.

did it help?

Yes on high performance setting mentioned by @msmcleod. If your network card isn't WiFi, it is usually sufficient to disable power saving setting. When it is WiFi, the Wi-Fi part can usually be disabled. But you know how to disable it... I was just trying to help. What happens if you disable the network monitor thing? Or some of those other items under the network card?

If you go to device manager, find the device and double click it, click power management tab, you can control whether the device can be switched to save power. For some reason this action kills dpc performance. So, change it to not save power.

Well, cpus are complicated. They can overheat. So when things get hot, they auto slow. While this is good for protecting your cpu while gaming, when recording audio it may not be necessary. For now, i think you're biggest problem is your wlan. I think your wlan device is still configured to save battery power. Go into device manager open the device and disable the power saving choice. I show how to do this in my video.

Hi. I had some confusion myself around items set as midi controllers. If your midi device is assigned as a controller, when you set it as a track input, the level will not bounce and the notes with not play. Delete the midi controller entry and now it can work as a midi instrument driver.

Obviously you can re-enable it after you check latency monitor. The fact that you use a wired connection doesn't mean there isn't some part of your network card causing an issue. If you disable it and get a pass from latency monitor, you next try changing settings on it so it doesn't mess you up.

Cakewalk pretty much never crashes on me.

No. I mean open device manager and disable the network card. I thought i remember showing how to do this in the video.

This is gonna sound weird, but sometimes I put up winamp on a big monitor and feed input to it from the microphones in the room. Then it does animations on the screen in time with whatever we play and sing.

Fish tank?

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Perfect... now go to the drivers tab, sort descending as I do in my video and tell us which drivers are taking the longest to respond and what the latency is. Then we can advise you what the problem is. Sometimes the drivers aren't obvious, but they often are. The other thing you can do is monitor your system while Latency Monitor is running. What happens when it turns red? A move of your mouse (I had that problem once and had to switch the driver I used with the mouse) or some other thing that happens concurrently? Post the image of the drivers tab so we can see. We need to see the highest execution time in milliseconds. In my video you see dxgkrnl.sys and usbport.sys are the slowest at 0.35 and 0.28 milliseconds respectively. From reading the image, it looks like disabling your network card would be the first thing I'd try. Then re-run LatencyMon and see where you stand.

I believe you have an issue you haven't identified that may continue to plague you until you resolve it. I think latency monitor is the best tool for you to do this.

You can download latency monitor tho find out what problems you have.