(Part 2) Best products from r/buildastudio

Mineral wool is a good idea!

But if you do want foam anyways and want to go the easy route....

www.amazon.com/dp/B07G3LK3TP/

These look cool and are relatively cheap and are easy to mount but may not be as effective as some of the other products like primacoustics...could be worth a try

Basically!
Is your gaming PC's motherboard's analog audio input only mic-level, or does it also have line-level?
Regardless, I'm 90% sure that it's mono.

What you need instead of the stereo jack - mini jack cable is a 1/4" to 3.5mm cable. This connects to one of the line outputs on the back of the 6i6 and then goes to your gaming PC audio input for voice comms.


Note that none of this will work as intended until you set up routing with the Focusrite software!
If you have issues, their support team is great.

Another thing you could do with this setup if you're using Teamspeak (or any external voice comms software), is set your game to use the SPDIF output to your audio interface and have Teamspeak use the analog output on your motherboard and connect that into the pair of line inputs on the back of the 6i6. You'd then be recording five channels of audio on your streaming PC, with your voice, your teammates voices, and the game sound all being separate channels so you can mix them accordingly (assuming you're making videos.) As that would be an analog channel of audio your hum eliminator could be used.

I myself have been searching Amazon. I was thinking about getting [this] (http://www.amazon.com/XTG-Home-Power-Station-Transfer/dp/B00R595IZQ
) but you're not the 1st to recommend d-link. I want a 3.0 one though. I'll look into their hubs more. Thank you.

I would look at these. Here is a helpful article. If you have a line-level out already, I recommend the 2i2, it's a great box for the money.

Stay away from USB turntables, I have yet to find one that isn't total crap.

If the more expensive one has switchable polar patterns, I think that can be a useful feature, especially if this is your one and only microphone.

But you might want to put that $50 toward a reflection filter. They can go a long way toward getting a really clean vocal track.

> Not in my tested room, or countless other studios using 703, and not according to professional testing: http://www.bobgolds.com/AbsorptionCoefficients.htm

it's merely a common misconception (intuition is rarely correct in acoustics).

the bob gold page is misleading as they are using random-incidence (reverberation chamber) spec testing - which is not directly applicable to small acoustical spaces that lack a reverberant soundfield (especially so at modal/LF frequencies). and it further states that such testing spec is not considered a "percentage" (such as with normal-incidence or impedance tube testing).

instead, a porous absorber calculator (http://www.whealy.com/acoustics/Porous.html ; http://soundflow.afmg.eu/index.php/sf-features-en.html) can be utilized based on a myriad of models (eg, miki) for a given absorber of a given thickness constructed of a given porous structure's flow resisitivity (typically linearly correlated with density).

porous absorbers deal with complex acoustical impedance, so you cannot factor in the real/resistive component only but also must factor the imaginary/reactive comonent. see the "flow-resistivity" tab on the whealey calc for a quick run-down.

if you're interested in this subject further, the authoritative source on the subject is: http://www.amazon.com/Acoustic-Absorbers-Diffusers-Theory-Application/dp/0415471745

by Trevor Cox and Peter D'Antonio (of RPG Inc.).

oc703 is not an optimal material for sufficiently thick porous-only LF absorbers. instead, a light fiber such as pink fluffy attic insulation should be used (loosely filled and uncompressed).

> Hence the reason why I said at stereo reflection points.

the schroeder cut-off in typical residential sized rooms extends down to 250-300hz. thus, any porous absorber must be sufficiently thick as to be sufficiently broadband in nature to fully attenuate a broadband signal down to these frequencies. thin absorbers will not sufficiently attenuate the lower-mid band which has the most energy content and what is also most previlant at the sidewalls (based on typical polar response of loudspeaker).

> At stereo reflection points, however, the first reason for trapping is to give a more accurate stereo image.

you're not "trapping" at "stereo reflection points". what you are doing is abrosbing the broadband reflection to manage the indirect soundfield and thus to attenuate any early-arriving high-gain sparse indirect signals that are destructive (skewing) to the accuracy of localization, imaging, and intelligibility. this is analyzed (measured) and addressed with respect to the time-domain.

I have an L-shaped desk, and the part I want to use is the section to my left, I don't actually put my legs under it often. It just holds my keyboards/mixers.

Yeah getting the brackets right might be somewhat tricky, but 1U racks are 1.75" thick, so I could potentially just get a 2" bracket and line it with rubber or something to fill the gap. That shouldn't be too difficult.

I'm just really surprised there isn't something already out there that does this. They do make some vertical rack mounts that are supposed to be attached to walls, which might work for my purposes, if I get one in the correct configuration.

Thanks for the reply. Do you mean I can get a different type of cheaper mic and stand, or find ones I've stated cheaper elsewhere?

In regards to phantom power it is available.

Headphones not the best - Sennheiser HD 202 Closed Back On-Ear Stereo Headphone.

The reason I'm spending so much on mic and stand is because I don't want to cheap out and have to re-buy in the future.

I am likely to use the mic as a pick up for acoustic guitar as well as vocals.

Edit: spelling

> Of course I have an interface

Got it. You hadn't mentioned it in your OP and you complained about a problem I had never experience and which is solved by an interface.

>. I’m hoping this is just an issue with laptops, and not desktops.

I dunno, man. I bought this laptop back in 2018 and played a number of shows with it using Ableton.

Sorry I don't have a better answer.

Are you certain that Ableton is using the interface and not onboard audio?

https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00CAKOVQM/ref=dp_olp_all_mbc?ie=UTF8&condition=all So should i buy it full priced or should i get it for $121.99 and get it for 38 dollars less. It says like new and they seem to be reputable, is it worth the risk?

ok, i would go with something like Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 (150$), sm57 ($100) and maybe Audio-Technica AT2035 (150$) or something similar. the interface already come with a DAW so you wont need to buy software

there is also bundles like this or this but i dont know how good the mics are

If you want to approach it academically, start with the master handbook of acoustics https://www.amazon.com/Master-Handbook-Acoustics-Alton-Everest/dp/0071603328

Unless you are locked into the articulated swiveling arm style mic stand I would suggest the following:

K & M Microphone Stand w/telescopic boom arm https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000TZVCWG/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awd_kQnGwbB1J08JQ

K&M stands are high quality and if needed replacement parts are readily available. I have K&M stands that have been in daily use for 10+ years.
This is a tripod and a boom arm which makes it more versatile than the desk mounted swivel arm style.

Other quality mic stand brands besides K&M are Atlas and Latch Lake.

Do you believe this mic stand that comes with the AT-2035 will be able to bear the weight of this reflection filter?


Microphone + stand:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B019RZNJZ6?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=ox_sc_act_title_1&smid=A3M2O3U6L5DL0B


Reflection filter:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B012OFI98I?keywords=reflection%20filter&qid=1458312998&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1