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I'm late to the party with Audio Test Kitchen, so forgive me if this is a dumb question. On a handful mics, there's a list of songs/artists who, if I'm reading correctly, used the mic in question. For instance, on the Soyuz Bomblet, it claims (or appears to claim) that the vocals from Estelle's "Ame...

Sorry, that was poorly worded. Of the two channels on the RPQ2, only the right channel produces the noise. I've never gotten any trouble from the RPQ2's left channel, regardless of room. Separately: in the bad room, other gear produces the same noise. Also, just to clarify: it's only the right chann...

Yeah, that was one of my first thoughts too. I used to use a tube mic that would get noisy--then I'd rotate it 90 degrees and the noise would be gone. No such luck with this stuff. Moving it around the bad room did no good at all. But, moving it to the good room fixed everything. I might just have t...

All balanced. I don't think I've got an unbalanced cord anywhere in the rig. and the Mogami Gold cables you mentioned are all balanced TRS or XLR? is anything unbalanced? if so I would start looking there. I also had an experience with a set of monitors that were connected with TS cables and every t...

Man, I don't doubt that at all. Then again, I might have taken the Twin Peaks reboot a little too literally. I don't know if this is scientifically accurate, but I've long supposed that my noise issues are a result of the proximity of power lines to my studio. "It's moving through the air, maaaan." ...

Also, just to clarify: it's only the right channel of the RPQ2 that produces the noise, and that's the channel closest to the RPQ2's internal power supply. Not sure if I was clear about that earlier.

As much as I like the idea of punishing a preamp and making an example of it for other gear that might misbehave, I'm pretty sure the unit in question is actually not the culprit. Other units make the sound, too. And they do it when the potential culprit is unplugged and in a totally different room....

No, it's an AEA RPQ2. Just got it last week. And here's the important thing: I can take that preamp out of the "bad" room entirely, and other units in the "bad" room still produce the "bad" sound. This leads me to believe that the sound was always there and I just wasn't turning up gain high enough ...

The racket you ask about is just me messing with knobs on the preamp I was recording through. The volume jump is just the gain going up. I'm in the fortunate(?) position of having mostly new gear right now, so it's hard to identify which piece might be the culprit. To your point, I do suspect that t...

I've been getting some weird high-pitched static-y, almost radio interference sounds in some of my gear lately. Certain mics in particular seem to really pick it up. I moved my gear to a different room, and the sounds disappeared. Which is great...except I can't stay in this room. Anyone else have t...

I've been doing lots of freezing. It's helpful, but when I get to a certain threshold (like 60ish tracks), no amount of freezing will save me. That's when I start submixing. Or drinking. I'm not an Ableton user either, but a quick search tells me that (at least recent versions of) Ableton has the ab...

The fact that this didn't occur to me yesterday is just...embarrassing. I'm not as dumb as this suggests, I promise. I just have a serious mental deficiency about routing. It's f'ing weird. Apologies in advance if this is redundant to an earlier point: Why not render your stems with whatever you put...

Behold: Suki. No idea what she is, but guessing hound+doberman. She's a rescue. IMG_8588.jpeg You guys are making perfect sense (and one of you has a dog in your avatar who looks IDENTICAL to mine, so that's cool), but I think I did a really bad job of asking my question. Here's where I'm at, and I ...

You guys are making perfect sense (and one of you has a dog in your avatar who looks IDENTICAL to mine, so that's cool), but I think I did a really bad job of asking my question. Here's where I'm at, and I think I've solved my own problem at this point: I've printed my stems. They were printed throu...

Thanks for the quick reply, and that makes sense for sure. But I think I'm mis-using the word "mix." What I'm actually doing is mixing and tracking at the same time (I know, bad form, but it's my own material, so...). So, I want to use the stems and keep building tracks on top. I'm mostly only stemm...