U fixed my spacial audio interface sound problems as soon as you said microphone lol. Ur a blessing really. Keep at it! & one more thing... Curiosity is key!
@Joe, can you do a video on all kinds of meters. like level meter used for mastering, the various average and peak types, phase meters, etc. ... greetings from Germany
Thought You should know, I didn’t need to watch this video. However when I hear your voice I see blue. It’s rarer than you think. lol Great Voice and Video Sir.
I have been working for a long time trying to get STUDIO ONE and my pre-Sonus headphone amps to give me enough volume when I record a vocal. I have good condenser mics and a studio 24C Digital audio converter. I set the levels on the mic input on my interface at about noon or one but even if I set my headphone amp to fall on my voice still seems too quiet. Moreover, the waveform is always very small.
Hi Joe. I think there is another thing we should be aware when recording voice to mic while having headphones on the head :). When we put the volume in headphones high enough then the audio from headphones is recorded by the microphone again and it is not something we want :). Cheers
It's the sound guy's job to tell the performers how to set up in ear monitor. Gain staging is not designed for monitor (If only using main mixer). It is for the mains. If you touch gain after the mains are set and mixed, to mix your monitor, then you mess up the mains. That's why pro set up is to have another mixer for monitor where you can touch everything independent of the mains mix.
@@HomeStudioCorner you are the best mixer engineer i know. your advise is well rounded and the proof of the pudding is in the eatin, your production is flawless and the best of all is you do it for free. That makes you a loveable person and i value that in you specially. Even your courses are on-point no-bs. Very good return. A barbell on the other hand saved my life and i see that a loaded squat will do good in your everyday life. Lots of love joe! Best wishes
I just bought a Quantum ES4 and I'm having the same problem I always have with interfaces which makes me always get rid of them as follows: You plug up your interface - you set the Mac audio to use the interface - you test the volume with some RU-vid videos or music - so far so good. You turn it up to a nice volume level. Then - you decide to plug your guitar into input 1 and play with some plugins or for the sake of this talk lets just say stand alone Tonex amp modeling plugin - not in Studio One or anything - just stand alone. It immediately sounds like crap - the reason is it's volume is so low. You check Universal Control - it's level coming across usb 1/2 is just as strong as the Mac system audio visually. So, why then is it so quiet? So, you crank the volume knob on the interface to compensate. You get it up to a good level for playing guitar. Now, then Mac system volume is way too loud. Why is this so hard? It should be easy - the levels of both are reading the same - but the actual output is way off. There must be a way to boost the monitored plugin volume for Tonex, Neural Dsp, etc. Why is the volume they are outputting - although reading fine in the meters - so much physically more quiet than the Mac (or Windows) system volume coming across? So - you take the opposite approach from above. You crank the volume of the interface to try and compensate for the quiet physical monitor volume of the plugins. Then - you separate the Mac system audio to Usb 3/4 and then take that volume down. So you've sort of come up with a compromise. Except that now - when you actually try and record - the volume you hear yourself record at when monitoring is louder than when you playback the recording. So irritating. I have the same issue with every interface - so it's not unique to this - but why - why is this so difficult. You'd think plugging in your guitar and playing a plugin at a reasonable volume would be the easiest thing in the world. Every person in the world that tries this is going to do exactly what I did at first - get the system volume running first - thinking that sounds good - then try a plugin and be disappointed. There must be a better way.
What you're experiencing is normal. It's not an interface flaw. You just haven't figured out a good workflow yet. You can't expect to do everything at the same volume. System Audio = Mastered Audio = Loud, so you'll need to turn volume down for this Mixed Audio = Medium volume. You'll need to turn up for this Recording = Quiet Volume. You'll need to turn up more.
Advice for someone moving from Live Engineering to Studio, I am used to open space and natural reverb and reflection and now that it's all dead I'm struggling to get my gain staging/dry mixes to sound good.
Do you keep acoustic guitar volume the same throughout a song? Or do you lower volume of acoustic tracks in parts where electric guitars are more prominent???
Hi, Thank you for making this video. I have a question for you, I am using the Volt1 Audio Interface with the Shure MS58 microphone (connected to my Macbook Pro), I would like to make my microphone sound louder into my headphones while using direct monitoring during my recording without causing any clipping/distortion by adding too much gain. Would a cloudlifter or could you give me any other solution that would fix this? Thank you
I find in some programs, adding EQ and reverb makes the track more quiet, sometimes to the point increasing the fader on that track just doesn't help. Any advice on that?
I’m currently having difficulty retrieving the sound of a project I'm working on. I’ve tried every possible trick and failed. Kindly help out, as I'm in a desperate situation. There's no sound at all with this particular one.
I always put it down to DEAF musicians LOL, But I am so glad I do not do live PA now. I stopped 3 year ago at the time when I was finally getting there. LMAO
