Explain this like I am five - Recording Bass on Computers

I am getting triggered by the constant disconnects.
Up to 100€? What headphones would you suggest?

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We had a long and funny discussion some time ago. The winner was the AKG 240.

AKG K-240 MKII – Thomann Ireland ?
I have those and
Austrian Audio Hi-X15 – Thomann Ireland

But I am not enjoying the arc. AKG it is then… if ppl recommend and I like the brand… :smiley:

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When it comes to it, the best headphones in the world will still suck if they aren’t comfortable.

I have the also highly recommended Audio Technica ATH-M50X. They are great when I’m mucking around in Reaper and am needing to listen carefully, but suck to wear while practicing cause I move around a lot and the bleedin things keep falling off.

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Bass and Mic easily configured in Reaper… so much easy.

DirectSound… channels… and output through speakers.
I feel the under 1s delay… but not on Cakewalk with apparently same settings.
Does reaper come with Sample drum loops? Couldn’t find anything.

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make sure you have the solo selected in Reaper like this:

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When I loaded mine up it was like this by default and there was an annoying delay.

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Will try ASIO again. It had absolutely no sound when I tried

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Did you install the Focusrite Control Center? That installs the windows ASIO drivers.

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Yep. I will try again later.

It wqs the first time I had opened it. For sure PEBCAK

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Yep - ASIO is very important to get proper latency!

Lol, happens to the best of us.

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Better looking… used a cable to connect headphone jack of focusrite to RCA on the Woofer… that the distributes to Speakers.

ASIO… … fun fact… wife gave me a Matribox Pedal/Looper/FX that injects noise into the Focusrite.

Time to RTFM :smiley:

Ninja edit:
Noise still present but very low… comes from instrument cable.
Swapping out cable reduces the buzzing and only at max speaker volume, I can detect it…
Now AMP to see if the cable is unearthed or can still be used for bass.

Wow, you must be really desperate :sweat_smile:

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No desperate… takes same amount of time to do things properly or to do things improperly.

I spend more time now RTFMing… you spend more time later trying to fix issues.

Choices… neither is wrong, neither is 100% correct. :slight_smile:

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For input absolutely! For audio… it would annoy the hell out of me (many guns have a faster rof than that so it would be very very weird) but maybe not game breaking. I certainly wouldn’t do it.

A lot of the time the sound cue is way easier to pick up than the visual cue, so this would be a huge handicap IMO. If you want to see something wild there are blind people who play Streetfighter. There’s a setting on at least the newer versions that plays a sound to indicate how far apart the fighters are and then they use sound to identify what moves people are doing, hit vs block, etc.

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Yeah actually for fighting games it 100% would not work because to be competitive there you need to have sub-17ms response accuracy - individual frames matter, and the audio cues matter for timing combos. I know a competitive Tekken player and it’s insane.

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Actually now that I think about it, yeah, this would be a nonstarter for me for most From Software games too. Maybe Elden Ring or other easier ones would work ok but it would still be annoying AF. And a tenth of a second lag would be immersion breaking in FPS even if not game breaking.

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Was a little worried about that! LOL Like Morkai said, I checked the website and Amazon to make sure, but also I’m not using this on a phone; this is for my PC.

I only mentioned Bandlab because that was how I had first begun trying to record myself. Bandlab is how I found out about Cakewalk, which is what I’m using on my PC.

I did receive the iRig this morning and the RCA cables last night, so after a few meetings, I’m going to test both of these and see which one actually does what I want them to.

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The iRig is certainly not bad - I had one of their devices for “on the road”, but happily replaced it with a Boss Katana go.

If it’s for PC I would have preferred a real audio interface though…