Hey everyone, I want to turn my room into a mini studio since making and recording music is pretty much my passion. Right now here is what I have...

Hardware:
PreSonus Firepod
Shure Sm58
Shure Sm57
At2020

Software:
Fruity Loops
Adobe Audition 1.5

I'm using a field recording of speech that was recorded in a very bright lively room. There's a lot of this room sound on the recording and wonder if anyone has some recommendations for getting rid of some of that room sound and retaining a pretty "natural" sound. In other words, I'm trying to make a very "roomy" recording sound deader.
Thanks.
Blacklab

Seriously, I've seen countless articles on proper drum Micing and different techniques, but I feel room mic placement just gets a brief mention most of the time.

I'm lost. I have yet to record a decent room mic track. Most of the time it has an ugly sound (like a gated reverb) or full of cymbals and no punch (needing to EQ to compensate, but it's still far from ideal).

PreSonus Inspire?

I'm looking for something for my friend who sings and plays piano and just wants to get a relatively clean recording. Right now she's just using her computer's built in mic/card and getting very noisy results without the ability to adjust the input gain. So I'm looking for a very simple firewire interface. Budget is the main consideration.

I was hoping someone could give me an opinion on the size of monitors I should go with for a room aproximately 12'x10'. I'm thinking of KRK RP line or M-audio BX line. Any recomendations I don't wanna get something too big but I don't want to get something too small either. These are mainly for mixing not tracking except on occasion.

Hello,
I'm going to record some jazz stuff(hard bop, ala Horace Silver and Bill Evans).

I have Old German Baby Grand Piano(in good condition).
Bass player with 3/4 size double bass(standard)
Drummer with 4 piece kit and 4 trad. jazz cymbals (ride, crash, hihats and splash)

So I've been working on constructing my basement home studio (I live in Canada) for a while now, adding layers of gypsum to the underside of the upstairs floor between the joists, backer rodding, caulking, etc. I am at the point where I have added as much mass as I'm prepared to add to the ceiling and sealed everything off to the best of my ability.

Does either option offer a better sound for a poor acoustic room?

What does each one do different from the other?

Is one better than the other?

Aight I was wounderin if theres anything i could buy somthin that i could hook up to my computer or somthin..

Hi, I've been to guitar center recently and had a chance to listen to krk rp8 and Yamaha NS80m I liked Yamahas more, but I think both of them are so LOUD for my small room (9x9x8), so I was thinking may be it will be better just to get something like ns50m, or krk rp5, and than add sub to them if I move to another room.