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Does cpuscaling have any signifcant effect on audio production?

By default most Linux distributions have the cpuscaling service on by default. In principle, it should "get out of the way" and run the processor at full speed once there is significant load. However, it seems plausible that that it could get in…
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Recording from Turntables to Laptop causes heavy distortion

When trying to record a mix from my vinyl turntables, to my laptop, I'm getting heavy distortion, especially during the heavy bass sections of the mix. I'm running my turntables into a 3 channel mixer, then outputting via RCA "Record" ports, to a…
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Fix for terrible "Hard Drive Noise" Audio Interference?

When recording direct input instrument audio using Ableton, my recording is plagued with a terrible noise interference that sounds like the clicks and movements of my PCs internal Hard Disk drive. This noise is relatively subtle, but when using VST…
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Audio Interface > Guitar Pedal Chain > Audio Interface

I have a bunch of guitar pedals (stompboxes) that are sitting idle. I'd like to run a mono track of music from my computer through these pedals and record it back into the computer again. The audio might be anything from drums to a synth. Of course…
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How do I properly set levels for a recording and the environment I'm mixing in?

I am using FL Studio 10 on a Windows 7 PC, I have some speakers I'm using as monitors, but here is my problem. If you count the volume level knobs on the plugins (2 of them), volume level on the track, volume level in FL Studio, volume level in…
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Recording ultrasonic frequencies

I'm looking into putting together a rig that can really capture ultrasonic frequencies for the purposes of varispeeding down during sound design, and I'd like a little input from those of you who have experience in such things. Most mics preamps and…
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Which music sw should I consider for aligning audio waveforms to MIDI piano roll, looping MIDI, managing program change, SysEx?

Which music software should I consider for aligning audio waveforms to MIDI piano roll, looping MIDI, managing program change, SysEx? In my projects, I'd like to be able to: see audio and MIDI tracks/channels on the same screen, for timing, so that…
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How can I create dubstep-style wobble bass lines in Audacity?

What is the most effective way to produce wobbling bass lines, such as that you might hear in the "dubstep" (a.k.a. techno-bass) genre? My current idea is to generate a linear sine wave that goes from frequency 60 to 20 and make a duplicate…
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Input output devices listed as inactive in device set up (Cubase 5)

Totally new to Cubase. I have installed Cubase 5. Before even getting into recording I want to enable audio input output so that I can add some basic presets and play. I got to know that Audio driver needs to be selected in device setup->VST Audio…
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Matching Dialogue between different takes

Hello. Another newbie questions from me. Been working on a 45 mins film, take place in an apartment. Most of the dialogue's quality turn out fine. (It's a shortfilm about a conversation between 3 teens and a drug dealer, in his small new york…
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extract specific frequencies from audio

As you can see from the spectrograph, there are two melodic lines in this excerpt. These two voices are played by different instruments. Is there a tool (preferably free) that will allow me to extract one instrument out of this mix? A basic approach…
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Best setup for a portable studio?

I've often needed to record while at a musicians house/studio/practice-pad (same goes for podcasting on the fly). To do so I needed my studio (or part of it) to be very mobile. I always want to achieve the highest quality sound as possible so it…
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How do I audio record a meeting with 10 people in a room 10ftx10ft

I have to do audio recordings for a college thesis. The recordings are of meetings in a room about 10 ft square. There will be between 7-10 people participating. I have permission to do the recording. Each meeting will last 30-40 minutes. I will be…
Laura Mc Quillan
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how can I make sounds of different frequencies appear subjectively equally loud?

I'm making an experiment where I play pure tones of three different frequencies (220 Hz, 440 Hz, 880 Hz) at 75 dB SPL. I've noticed that they don't sound equally loud, and I would like them to. I found a number of webpages on equal loudness…
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Cardboard boxes for room echo reduction?

I have a large amount of not-broken-down cardboard boxes that I need to hang onto, and they are piled just outside the door of the small basement room I am trying to use as a (admittedly incredibly primitive for now) recording room. That room seems…
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