Feedback

Well, having the speakers on would do it for sure.
How about your headphones. Do they seal well around your ears? Are they an open back design?

Robert,

I just have cheap ear muff type headphones. (That's all hubby would buy after rolling over the first 2 pairs and breaking the wires/connection)

Dave,

It's possible that the big mic could have moved slightly. I have a boom stand and I can't seem to get the piece to tighten which would stop the boom part from moving. It is quite annoying when you only have two bars to hit record, grab your guitar in place, grab your pick and get in a comfortable position (or at least one you can play guitar in)!

I've tried moving the mic's around, but I'm not having any luck. I just thought there might be something else I can do. It could possilby be the cheap headphones, cause it may have started happening around the same time now that I think about it. Can feedback still happen if you have the fancy muff'S? If so, I guess I'll to get some advice on a decent (as cheap as possible) headphones.

Thanks guys.

It's possible for input monitoring to enable feedback if you have one of the outputs routed to an input. Check all your settings that something isn't going where it doesn't belong.
Nutty, you can set the 'Count-In' to any value you want. If you set it to 10 measures, it will tick-tick-tick for 10 measures before the recording starts.
Alternatively, put the now line all the way to the left. Now 'Insert' 4 or 8 or 16 measures. It will move all the tracks over that many measures. Even if it starts recording on the first beat of the first measure, you've got gobs of time before it gets to the song.

You can get feed back through headphones, definately if you are using the speakers, which you should not be doing, they will bleed through. In fact, if your headphones are too loud, a good mic will pick that up while recording the guitar or vocals. Try turning down the volume in your headphones, I think you were able to isolate that volume control, don't adjust it in m/c, but in the firebox settings, after the master out.
As far as kids and other background noise, even a isolation booth will not help, I know just how loud kids can be. There is no such thing as an inside voice, never understood why though. Just remember, they do grow up and move out. Eventually. Only problem, shortly there after, they come back with little ones, and they make a lot of their own kind of noise. It never ends.
My advantage is a basement studio, iso booth, sound proofed walls, I do most of my work late at night, and all of the kids and grandkids live at least 100 miles away...peace at last
Later
Albert

Okay, it passed the microphone, so I guess no new toys for me today.

I would suspect it was my volumes on the Firebox as well. I'm still playing around with the volume issues. I can record a track and barely hear it. Then, the next time I almost jump out of the chair. I'm still not sure if I should be using the Firebox volume controls or the volume controls on the track? There is the "regular" volumes that go up to 6dB and the gain which goes up to 18 (dB?) I think. Then there is the volumes on the Firebox for the pre-amps, the master volume (speakers) and then the headphone volume control. I do have headphone volume quite high sometime so I can hear the bass and drums to be sure I'm singing at the right tempo.

As for the teenagers, they haven't really changed much since there were kids. As soon as you close a door or talk on the phone, that's when they "really" need you or need somthing or other. It reminds me of my oldest when she was a toddler. I had read somewhere to tell the kids that they can only interrupt you in case of emergency like if they were going to throw up or if ithe house was on fire. So, I taught this to her. So, one day she taps me on the leg while on the phone and says "excuse me Mom, I'm not going to throw up and the house isn't on fire, but can I still ask you something?" I pretty much gave up then. Now they write notes and shove them in my face while I'm on the phone. My oldest actually picked up the extension one day to let me know that she needed the phone. And no, the house wasn't on fire, nor was she sick. Parents can't win.

Thanks for the advice guys. I'll work on the volumes some more. Time to go back and read that long thread again. There was a lot to asborb.

ORIGINAL: SteveStrummerUK
Late to the party as usual

Sorry Annette but when I saw the title of this thread I assumed you wanted know how to create feedback - I though now you're talking my language here

Steeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeve

Better late than never they say!!!! Yes, I had some pretty good feedback going on. We went to Future Shop today and I had a look at their headphones and couldn't find one with "ear muffs" under $200 and they were just plain headphones. I can't swing that, so I'll wait until I go to the music store.

Any recommendations? Under $100 would be good.

ORIGINAL: 57Gregy

So, Annette, when you say it's not loud enough to hear when recording, do you mean what you're recording, or all the audio?

Yes, it's usually what I recorded. I'll try to remember that but, I don't know why one time it would come out nice and loud so, I turn the volumes down a bit and next I hear nothing. Oh well...at least it is easily fixed.

Thanks Greg.

Annette