7 Crucial Tips to Optimize your PC For Music Production in 2023

No more audio dropouts, stuttering, or crashes when using your DAW or other audio/video production applications.

These are my seven top tips that will change the way you work with audio and video on your Windows PC in 2023.

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To get the most out of your recording or streaming space, I recommend sound treatment including acoustic absorption panels. This is the single biggest way to improve your audio before investing in other gear. You can make your own, or I highly recommend GIK Acoustics as they manufacture some of the best quality panels available at an excellent value.

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🎞 Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction
00:45 Disable All System Sounds
01:23 Configure Your PC for High Performance
01:50 Configure Processor Scheduling
02:58 Configure USB Selective Suspend and Power Delivery
04:48 Disable Background Applications
06:08 Configure Windows Updates
07:26 Update and Optimize Video Drivers
08:35 Bonus Tip - Process Priority and CPU Affinity

#homestudio #musicproduction #pcmusic

[dasors]

As a fellow music producer, I'm grateful for the time and effort you put into creating this video. Keep up the fantastic work! 👍👍👍

[illyph]

Yo as a musician and audio engineer struggling with older box cause I can’t afford the upgrade yet, that last tip just made my system run 15% faster instantly when I did it, with my daw open at same time, and completely solved what I thought was a buffering issue, thank you 🙏🏼 great vid, earned a sub👍

[LearnWithStephen]

This is absolutely phenomenal. It has completely transformed my computer into a beast. I've had this computer for 10 years, and it was really great when I bought it, but I had no idea how great it could be. This is essential information for anyone making music with their computers. Thank you so much!!

[lhu]

Activated bluetooth can also cause problems on a daw like crackling sound. I solved the issue on my hp pavilion (ryzen 5, 16 GB ram, 500 GB SSD) by turning off the bluetooth module after I took over the power settings as you advised. Both Reaper and amplitube 5 max run like a charm now. But for me the last push in the right direction was turning off bluetooth. Hope this helps others, thanks for your videos on the subject. Grtz from NL, Leo

[Matthewsavant]

I appreciate the tips, I just switched from Mac to PC, I’ve been using Macs for Music production and sound design since 2007 but just recently I had a MacBook Pro that just randomly stopped working and needed the entire logic board replaced, I decided to just buy a new computer instead but for the cost of an M2 Max or M3 max i could get a hell of a lot more in a PC, I decided to pull the trigger on a beastly Windows laptop and as a bonus I can use it for gaming but I’ve been away from windows for music production so long I wasn’t really sure how to get things as stable as possible. I’m really hoping I didn’t make a massive mistake going to back to windows though

[leedarkin-miller]

Just set up a new upgraded PC DAW with Windows 11. Your video really helped with some frustrating glitches and performance issues. It's night and day now. Thank you. Have subscribed!

[andymat]

Wow, I can't thank you enough, this guide was awesome! I've been having major issues with Ableton, Amplitube, Rekordbox, Bluetooth and USB devices, This seems to have made an enormous difference already, even while I'm typing this comment! Massive 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 from the UK!!!!

[ReverusN]

Excellent, being a curious person I had found almost all of these settings. But I was unsure what would be best for music production. Seeing as I spent a small fortune on making a studio (a lot of it on the PC!) I found this video extremely helpful! Thanks for sharing the knowledge!

[PiingpeiPictures]

never heard such a great in-depth tips. gonna check all your videos

[vinodm.]

Awesome !!! I consider myself lucky & immensely happy that I have come accrosss your channel. These are real gold mine of advices you have given out. Years of frustration of audio related issues finally over. Thank you. 😊😊😊💯👍

[ELHouari-Youssef]

Thank you for the fantastically honest content

[brucemoyer]

Great video. Clear and informative and hopefully, transformative for my audio work!

[yashkummar]

Hey Todd, I want to thank you so much for sharing your tips and knowledge. I am so grateful, and this will help me progress as I moved to PC from Mac. You the

[alanvaughan]

Thank you for the simple NO BS explanation... we use Cubase for running backtrack in a live show and we also record our show and we had a dropout last week ..fingers crossed all your tips help ..we were doing a few things but had NO idea how indepth we had to go ...Great video

[Bro_shalamah]

This literally saved me from much anxiety and frustration. Ozone is so power hungry and your solutions resolved constant DAW crashes. Best vid on this topic I've seen. Thanks.

[Bananeisafree]

I've been struggling for the past month with my brother's computer (a person that is quite musically inclined but not that Tech savvy) with Pops and dropout from his Focusrite. Delving into depth of configuration that are on par or even more crazy than what I have done to some of my machines for gaming purposes (I know now the wrath of the LatencyMon red text ... and it is frightening !).
You gave a few tips that I've yet to try. I'll give it a go next time I swing by his house.
It might help, It might not... but you have given the impromptue IT guy that I became a bit of hope.
Thank you for that !
Cheers !

[elsf]

2:29 this blew my mind and I can't wait to try it! That seems so counter intuitive!

[Nayah]

Do NOT change processor scheduling to "Background services". This setting is mainly aimed at server PCs. DAWs are a foreground process, as are ASIO drivers.
As long as you don't run junk on your PC, you don't need to change any setting in Windows to make your DAW to run better except maybe for the high performance power plan (in some cases).
Now go make music. Peace.

[kingoimkenya]

Thank you for a very detailed, clear and thorough tutorial. I'm rebooting now to see if the glitches I have experianced lately with Mixcraft10 will disappear.

[genxfree]

Dude! Haven’t see you in my timeline for months!! Huge fan of your content😊