r/AudioEngineering Shopping, Setup, and Technical Help Desk
**Welcome to the** r/AudioEngineering **help desk. A place where you can ask community members for help shopping for and setting up audio engineering gear.**
*This thread refreshes every 7 days. You may need to repost your question again in the next help desk post if a redditor isn't around to answer. Please be patient!*
This is the place to ask questions like how do I plug *ABC* into *XYZ,* etc., get tech support, and ask for software and hardware shopping help.
# Shopping and purchase advice
Please consider searching the subreddit first! Many questions have been asked and answered already.
# Setup, troubleshooting and tech support
**Have you contacted the manufacturer?**
* *You should.* For product support, please first contact the manufacturer. Reddit can't do much about broken or faulty products
**Before asking a question, please also check to see if your answer is in one of these:**
* [Frequently Asked Questions](http://www.reddit.com/r/audioengineering/wiki/faq) * [Troubleshooting Guide](https://www.reddit.com/r/audioengineering/wiki/troubleshooting) * [Rane Note 110 : Sound System Interconnection](https://www.ranecommercial.com/kb_article.php?article=2107) * aka: *How to avoid and solve problems when plugging one thing into another thing* * [http://pin1problem.com/](http://pin1problem.com/) \- humming, buzzing & noise
# Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) Subreddits
* [r/Ableton](https://www.reddit.com/r/Ableton) * [r/AdobeAudition](https://www.reddit.com/r/AdobeAudition) * [r/Cakewalk](https://www.reddit.com/r/Cakewalk) * [r/DigitalPerformer](https://www.reddit.com/r/DigitalPerformer) * [r/Cubase](https://www.reddit.com/r/Cubase) * [r/FLStudio](https://www.reddit.com/r/FLStudio) * [r/Logic\_Studio](https://www.reddit.com/r/Logic_Studio) * [r/ProTools](https://www.reddit.com/r/ProTools) * [r/Reaper](https://www.reddit.com/r/Reaper) * [r/StudioOne](https://www.reddit.com/r/StudioOne)
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## Related Audio Subreddits
This sub is focused on professional audio. Before commenting here, check if one of these other subreddits are better suited:
* r/Acoustics * [r/Livesound](https://www.reddit.com/r/Livesound) * [r/podcasting](https://www.reddit.com/r/podcasting) * [r/HeadphoneAdvice](https://www.reddit.com/r/HeadphoneAdvice/) for all headphones and portable shopping advice * [r/StereoAdvice](https://www.reddit.com/r/StereoAdvice) for consumer stereo shopping advice
*Consumer audio, home theater, car audio, gaming audio, etc. do not belong here and will be removed as off-topic.*