I appreciate any help you can provide. Thanks in advance!

I'm building a relatively small & sleek home studio with (hopefully) high-endsound. I'm a IT guy during the day and a musician at night, with an 850sq ft apartment as well as the following existing items:

i'm trying to record guitars on my laptop. I'm using Audacity. using a mic with a 1/4 jack converted to stereo 1/8th and directly plugged into my recording jack on the computer. problem is.. when i go to record it only picks up one side of the stereo track. i'm not sure what the problem is here so if anyone can help i'd greatly appreciate it.

I've been composing using Reason for a while, but I'm about to make the jump to home recording. Unfortunately, I know far less than the bare minimum. So if I tell you vaguely what I'm planning to do, could someone with more experience (ie: any of the fine members here) tell me if I'm on the right track?

Nothing like grading partial differential equations exams to make you break out the Christmas music. Put on my all time favorite - Vince Gauraldi's Charlie Brown Christmas soundtrack. I love the recording, but started to listen to it with my recording engineers hat on. (I'm not a recording engineer, but play one in my basement.

Hi! I'm a recent college grad, and I've been making amateur home recordings for years, but recently I just upgraded my equipment. Here's what I'm working with: Lexicon Lambda USB interface, MacBook Pro (GarageBand), AKG Perception 120 condenser mic.

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No sound. I paid for a twenty dollar optical cable hoping these connections would get me a digital audio* connect. The Tascam fw-1804 won't even read a signal coming in.
Am l doing something wrong?

Well I am starting to experience great volume loss on the clean channel of my Peavey xxx. It isnn't constant however. It is also cutting out on all channels and I believe this is because of my power tubes which have never been changed in the past few years since I bought it new. I know the preamp tubes are fine as I replaced them about a year ago.

We are fixing to get an iMultiMix 8 USB mixer to work with Protools.

We use a Yamaha DTXplorer eKit and was wondering if anyone has had experience recording with this eKit before? I've skimmed a few threads on other sites about issues with it, and can't seem to find anything helpful on it.

It's got the MIDI Out and L/R Output jacks; Any input?

So I have a Pro Tools session of some drums on a CD, however I don't have Pro Tools, I have a Mac OSX 10.5.4 With Logic. I tried just opening the audio files from the session but I got a message in Logic saying it couldn't create an overview for the track. I figured it would have worked fine because they're only just the .WAV files. Any idea how to get them into Logic?

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Hi,
Would appreciate a little advice please.

I currently use an old cheap pair of speakers for monitoring and I'm looking to upgrade. I really dont have much cash though, around £200.

Could anyone advise on some monitor speakers for that price please?