Digital Recording Puns

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We're currently building a new house, and I'm working to get my music room all worked out. I only really do it just for fun and just for me, but have been doing a whole lot of recording recently...

I've mostly been using direct interface lately, with Logic Pro, and it's come to my attention that digital/on screen effects tend to work better on some things than my actual pedals do when using a direct interface...

Since I'm basically starting from the ground up with the new room I'm wanting to pretty much either go all in on full digital or not... Option 1 is Logic Pro with direct interface and software effects. Option 2 is micing up my amps (currently have a Fender GTX50, a Blues Junior, and a PRS MT15) and sticking fully to physical pedals and whatnot, doing as little as possible on the software end.

Is there any kind of strong consensus on which of these is superior, or is it pretty much entirely a matter of personal preference with no real answer?

Any input is definitely appreciated!

Hey Everyone,

Not sure if I'm at the right place but here's my problem :

I have a Kawai CN29 Digital piano / Audient iD22 Audio Interface

I just bought this interface and I cannot get it right and cannot figure out what I'm doing wrong or what do I need to make it better... (Really noob at recording and in the sound in general)

What I want to do is : Connect both my computer and my piano into the audio interface and listen to both at the same time (That works perfectly). But I also want to people to listen to live performances with really good quality sound (Doesn't work because sound is too low on input softwares).

The problem is when I want to record through specific software (like Audacity), the sound of the piano itself is kinda low... I need to amplificate the sound to make it sound like normal INTO THE SOFTWARE (Shouldn't be the case isn't it ?)

My digital piano is connected to the DI port on the audio interface and it seems to make sound better quality and sound level than on the classic Jack port.

My guess is that the preamps on the Audient are not good enough, even though I turn the sound from the Kawai to max level, it's clearly not audible without turning the gain knob on the interface up, and if I turn too much this knob (like 35% of max capacity), I get crackling sound et horrible distorsions when I press hard the keys.

Should I buy preamps to boost the Kawai sound before the audio interface ? Should I change the audio interface ?

Please help me out I'm feeling like I wasted 400€ on something that doesn't work :(

Thank you all for understanding and remember that I'm really new to all of this !

https://youtu.be/Xvwazh6aAYk

I've got plenty of analog video using my fat sharks, but it's low quality and there's static. I'd like to build a drone that can take HD video (like the pros use, but I'm poor and also I like soldering) but not sure what to look for/avoid as far as camera + recording solutions go. I'd like to avoid just strapping a go pro on to a drone (looking at a 3" frame, so that might be too heavy anyways)

Are HD (1080P, or maybe 4k if I can find something that works) drone videos typically transmitted, or recorded on board? is it part of the following schematic, or something totally different?

camera - transmitter - goggles - SD card
|            |
|          receiver- CD RW
onboard recording- VHS tape

Boiling down the question in the title: is a unit of dB SPL the same as one unit in dB FS? I've been playing around with a decibel measurer and this came to mind. I could test this out, but I'd love to know the actual logic behind it.

Hi there, next year I’m going to do short social media Tour recap videos for a German indie band. We’ve opted to shoot them on real vhs as it suits their style best and it’s still hard to get the Look convincingly using Plugins. As you can imagine this means having to spend a lot of time digitalizing the footage and syncing it to external audio.

To save this hassle i thought i could connect the rca component output of the camera via hdmi adapter to an external recorder (Atomps Ninja). Allowing me to directly record on a digital medium and being able to connect a good microphone to it.

It sound pretty logical to me, but I haven’t seen someone actually do it. Do you think I’m missing an important detail here? And sorry for the bad English:D

Hi folks,

Long time cellist, first time poster here. Apologies if I’m asking this in the wrong place.

When it comes to anything to do with the interplay between sound and electricity, I’m a total moron but I thought it might be fun to try and make some multipart recordings, playing along with myself. I went ahead and got myself a Realist Copperhead pickup literally thinking I could just hook it directly into my pc’s line in and hit record. Didn’t take me long to realize it doesn’t work that way so I found a Black Friday deal on an entry level interface (PreSonus AudioBox 96). It worked (kind of) but only when I cranked the instrument volume all the way to 11, at which point the feedback was almost as loud as the cello. The C string also came out around 10 times louder than the A string.

After a bit more research, I learned that preamps are a thing and thought surely that must be the answer. I went over to my local Guitar Center and managed to grab the last “Acoustic A Series” they had in stock for 80 bucks. It promised feedback elimination and equalization and after a lot of fiddling with knobs, I managed to get a somewhat decent recording. The high notes are still quite a bit louder than the low notes, though, and there’s still noticeable buzzing on the track even after post-processing.

I have to believe there’s something I’m doing wrong. These products are definitely on the low end of the spectrum quality wise (aside from the pickup) but they get too many positive reviews for them to be total garbage. Any thoughts on what I’m missing or tips for improving my signal to noise ratio?

Hey Everyone,

Not sure if I'm at the right place but here's my problem :

I have a Kawai CN29 Digital piano / Audient iD22 Audio Interface

I just bought this interface and I cannot get it right and cannot figure out what I'm doing wrong or what do I need to make it better... (Really noob at recording and in the sound in general)

What I want to do is : Connect both my computer and my piano into the audio interface and listen to both at the same time (That works perfectly). But I also want to people to listen to live performances with really good quality sound (Doesn't work because sound is too low on input softwares).

The problem is when I want to record through specific software (like Audacity), the sound of the piano itself is kinda low... I need to amplificate the sound to make it sound like normal INTO THE SOFTWARE (Shouldn't be the case isn't it ?)

My digital piano is connected to the DI port on the audio interface and it seems to make sound better quality and sound level than on the classic Jack port.

My guess is that the preamps on the Audient are not good enough, even though I turn the sound from the Kawai to max level, it's clearly not audible without turning the gain knob on the interface up, and if I turn too much this knob (like 35% of max capacity), I get crackling sound et horrible distorsions when I press hard the keys.

Should I buy preamps to boost the Kawai sound before the audio interface ? Should I change the audio interface ?

Please help me out I'm feeling like I wasted 400€ on something that doesn't work :(

Thank you all for understanding and remember that I'm really new to all of this !