Home Recording Studio

Home Recording Studio Design and Equipment

2006-07-12T07:54:00.000+02:00

a Home Recording Studio generally consist of at least two rooms: the home recording studio itself, where the sound for the recording is created (often referred to as the "live room"), and the control room, where the sound from the home recording studio is recorded and manipulated. Home Recording Studio studios are carefully designed around the principles of room acoustics to create a set of spaces with the acoustical properties required for recording sound with precision and accuracy. This will consist of both room treatment (through the use of absorption and diffusion materials on the surfaces of the room, and also consideration of the physical dimensions of the room itself in order to make the room respond to sound in a desired way) and soundproofing (to provide sonic isolation between the rooms). A recording studio may also include additional rooms, such as a vocal booth - a small room designed for voice recording, as well as one or more extra control rooms.

Equipment found in a home recording studio commonly includes:

Mixing console

Multitrack recorder

Microphones

Reference monitors, which are loudspeakers with a flat frequency response

The home recording studio may also include:

Digital Audio Workstation

Music workstation

Outboard Effects, such as compressors, reverbs, or equalizers

Home Recording Studio and Professional Mastering

2005-11-25T13:48:00.000+02:00

So, you've written some blinding home recording studio songs. You've spent many hours in your home recording studio perfecting and recording them. You've mixed them down using various effects. And now you're ready to release your MP3s to the world...

The only problem is, when you play them after listening to a few "commercial" tracks, something doesn't sound quite right. Maybe they don't have enough sparkle, or clarity, or space. Maybe they sound a bit lifeless and dull. And even though the meters on your hi-fi tell you they're as loud as commercial tracks, somehow they just seem to lack power. The low end isn't punchy enough, but when you turn up the bass, things just end up sounding muddy.

Does this sounds like a familiar tale? Then you need the services of a professional mastering studio!

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XP Home Recording Studio

2005-08-10T07:58:00.000+02:00

Digidesign has collaborated with Terra Digital Audio to design and fully qualify a line of Windows XP–based computers for Pro Tools® home recording studio systems. Terra is offering rack-mount and desktop computers built for Pro Tools|HD® systems, plus both desktop and laptop computers for Pro Tools LE™ systems.

Until now, only workstation-class computers were fully qualified for use with Pro Tools|HD systems on Windows XP. Terra’s initial products are the first desktop-class Windows-based computers to be fully qualified by Digidesign for Pro Tools home recording studio systems. And because the Terra computers are designed specifically for Pro Tools systems, they offer Digidesign customers a powerful, reliable "out of the box" home recording studio experience at a more affordable price.

For more information about Terra Digital Audio systems, visit http://www.terradigitalaudio.com/index.htm

Home Recording Studio Mastering

2005-06-08T08:21:00.000+02:00

Home Recording Studio Mastering is the final process by which a recording is prepared for reproduction. The techniques behind this are often very so secretive that Home Recording Studio Mastering artists can seem like occultists. Basically in Home Recording Studio Mastering you are trying to “sweeten” the Home Recording Studio Mix a little. Part of the process of Home Recording Studio Mastering involves final stages of compression, to ensure the volume is as constant in a Home Recording Studio Mix as possible. Most tracks you hear on the radio are the same volume for almost the entire duration of the song. Try opening some of your favorite MP3’s up in your audio editing program to see how consistent they are. Of course, jazz is a different story, as are genres like bluegrass, classical, and to some extent country. All of these genres will show a lot of dynamic changes in the course of the song. Anything in the rock format or pop will be consistently as loud as it can get.

Beyond compression, however, Home Recording Studio Mastering is also used to fix certain parts of the Home Recording Studio Mix. For this part of the process, a person needs a spectral analyzer and either an EQ or multiband compressor. The latter will be better for this part since it will dynamically respond to a Home Recording Studio Mix and thus will sound more natural. Either way, check your song to see how it looks on the frequency spectrum. If you’re like 90% of first time recorders, there’s a huge notch between 800Hz and 1500Hz. This is because guitars sound powerful with their mids dropped out and everyone loves that powerful sound. The problem is that between those frequencies is the meat of guitar sound. No other instruments fill that part of the spectrum as well. Open up one of your favorite songs and put it through the spectral analyzer and you’ll see that the way a song should look is an almost completely flat line between about 150Hz and 15kHz, with volume tapering off at either end of this. This is what you should strive for in your Home Recording Studio Mixes.

You can fix the mid frequency notch by either going back to your original Home Recording Studio Mix and EQing accordingly, or by compressing the frequencies around these mids. You can use a multiband compressor to make those mids louder, but overall it makes a Home Recording Studio Mix sound a hair unnatural. Why bother? Because most people have their stereos EQed to drop out mids, so they’re already doing this work for you, so when your Home Recording Studio Mix gets on their stereos it will sound very thin and harsh and the low end will be complete mud.

Another important point to emphasize: listen to your Home Recording Studio Mix through every stereo and/or set of speakers you can find! You can never guarantee what system a person is going to be listening to your CD through, so make sure it sounds as good as possible for all sets of speakers.

An additional trick for Home Recording Studio Mastering is if the Home Recording Studio Mix sounds too cold or harsh to transfer it to audio tape. This is really hard to do outside of a Home Recording Studio Mastering studio, but there are plugins to replicate the warming and compressing effect of tape. They aren’t perfect, of course, but they can be good for what you need them for.

Home Recording Studio Mastering is your last chance for fixing anything you don’t like, so don’t be afraid to try! It’s easily the most arcane part of the process and the most difficult to measure. Every piece of software I discussed before can be used for Home Recording Studio Mastering, but when it comes down to it, if you don’t trust your skills in this area (and I’m making it sound a lot simpler than it actually is), there’s no shame in taking your Home Recording Studio Mix to a local Home Recording Studio Mastering studio. Rates are usually pretty good for individual songs and the people there can make your Home Recording Studio Mix sparkle like none other. I’m still trying to get this part of the recording process down.

Home Recording Studio Setup

2005-06-06T07:16:00.000+02:00

When setting up or rearranging your home recording studio setup, think of every possible angle by which you may need to access your home recording studio setup equipment. This gets tricky with items that you may need to access from behind, as well as from the front, especially home recording studio setup mixing boards. If the jackfield is against a wall in the middle of a table, I can guarantee you you won't be repatching very often. I recommend leaving at least 2 feet behind your racks free so you can get back there and troubleshoot any problems that might arise in your home recording studio setup.

Get a good, comfortable chair on casters that is adjustable and supports your back properly. Many office supply stores have good ones taht will work wonders in your home recording studio setup. Make sure it does not squeak too much for practical reasons ;)

Now stretch your arm out and spin around three hundred and sixty degrees in your new swivel chair. The circle your arm makes is your prime home recording studio real estate. If there is an object in this space you never touch when working on music, move it to the back of your home recording studio setup. Move objects you do touch into this valued inner circle. You will not believe the difference this can make. Move all your set-once-and forget pieces to the back. That might include room EQs, effects boxes, synth modules, amps, midi interface racks, etc. Stuff that goes up front, obviously, you main keyboard, grooveboxs, synths with real time controllers, patchbays, and samplers.

Enjoy!

Home Recording Studio Overview

2005-06-01T07:06:00.000+02:00

Today's Home Recording Post is a Overview of past topics, to make sure that you understand the concept of the Home Recoring studio as a whole:

How to Build a Home Recording Studio Part 1

How to Build a Home Recording Studio Part 2

How to Build a Home Recording Studio Part 3

Home Recording Studio Basics

Basics of a Home Recording Studio Mic Cabinet

Home Recording Studio Mic Setup

Home Recording Studio Popless

Hope these help you to see just how far we have come! I will have a fresh serving of Home Recording Studio again tomorrow!

Home Recording Studio Tip

2005-05-27T07:09:00.000+02:00

If you are like me and are forced to be an economy home recording studio music producer then it's always good to hear new ideas. I've spent much time using mixing different types of musical equiptment together to create collaborations that are slightly unorthodox in form in my home recording studio. Here's one of my latest discoveries that will benefit those who have access to home recording studio equiptment for use in live performance.

Currently I'm in a band and own a Platinum Warlock bass as well as a bass processing unit with multiple effects. Home Recording Studio. After I purchased a mic I decided to hook my mic into my processing unit at my home recording studio. Not only did this work like a charm, but it also gave me a vast range of vocal options. The way I made the connections is very simplistic and cheap if you already have the processing unit, in your home recording studio, of course.

1) Plug your mic into the input of the processing unit.

2) Run an instrument cable from the output of the home recording studio processing unit to any available adapter that you might have on your computer and plug it in. I used a plug that converts the instrument cable plug/ microphone plug into a 3.5mm jack. This doesn't offer the best sound quality but it works, and can be bought at Wal-Mart or most retail stores that sell audio equipment.

This home recording studio tip can add a whole new range to your vocals, especially if you are stuck using Acid Music Studio, which is very lax on how many effects that it offers. Enjoy recording your own home recording studio vocal loops on your favorite music software with this tip!

How to Build a Home Recording Studio Part 3

2005-05-26T06:46:00.000+02:00

When you build a Home Recording Studio, hardware is where you may want to spend some money. Manipulating sound is CPU-intensive work. The multi-threaded nature of these applications means that a dual-processor computer will make the work go faster, though a faster front bus and more memory will serve you even better than a faster processor in your Home Recording Studio. Sound files are also very large, so you'll need lots of memory to make sure there's plenty of buffer space and lots of hard drive space to store it in your Home Recording Studio.

Home Recording Studio sound hardware is the hard part. To build a Home Recording Studio of maximum quality, you can buy an external analog/digital converter, but the most inexpensive solution is to just use the sound card you already have. It's an acceptable solution for your Home Recording Studio for these reasons:

It meets the minimum requirements of 16-bit 44.1KHz input on at least one track (and usually two are available, if you want to use them).
The Home Recording Studio software we've selected uses either 24-bit int or 32-bit float internally, so there won't be any loss of sound normally associated with 16-bit samples during the mastering stage in your Home Recording Studio.

You'll be recording one track at a time. If you need to record more than one track at a time, you'll need to spend some money on a different sound card.
You need to either place a decent quality microphone near your amplifier or instrument, or be able to plug your instrument directly into the sound card in your Home Recording Studio. Since microphone placement is an art into and of itself, I just plug my guitar into a Boss GT-3 digital effects processor and use the line-out jack to plug directly into the stereo line-in jack of my Home Recording Studio sound card. I have used inexpensive analog mixers that deal with converting instrument signals to line signals. In the long run, though, you'll probably want a fancy sound card with a digital mixer in my Home Recording Studio.

Your Home Recording Studio

2005-05-24T06:51:00.000+02:00

Using your home recording studio, You can record music midi files including Sibelius, Finale, Cubase, or any midi or handwritten file and you will be amazed at how realistic your composition will sound. Its important to build your home recording studio so that you end up using only the best professional sound libraries. Use your home recording studio today, It's the place to record music with the highest degree of accuracy and quality.

You can also record symphonies, orchestras, rap, pop, jazz, rap, and any style you can think of in your home recording studio.

You can change your midi file into a realistic and convincing piece using your home recording studio. You can also record music midi files of any style, and by using your home recording studio, You can either burn your songs for you on a CD, or you can comnpile the mp3.

Working in your home recording studio, allows you to make music without having to pay a hourly rate!

How to Build a Home Recording Studio Part 2

2005-05-22T01:50:00.000+02:00

How to Build a Home Recording Studio isn't hard, nor does it require a great deal of technical knowledge. The biggest problems musicians face in building a home recording studio stem from all the myths and pseudo-truths that have developed around the art of recording at the home recording studio. But with a little bit of elbow grease and a great selection of open source software, you can build an adequate home recording studio. Making it perfect? Well, let's worry about that another day.

We start with basic selections of hardware and software. The software part is easy: I will dictate it to you. The hardware part requires some discussion, but in order to discuss the hardware we need to first talk about the software we'll be using in your home recording studio.

To record basic tracks in your home recording studio, we'll be using Ecasound, a popular command-line sound recorder and processor. Ecasound supports everything under the sun, but we'll be using it only to record and to play back tracks. More specifically, we'll be using it to play back tracks already recorded while recording new tracks, and we'll be recording the tracks one at a time.

There are at least three choices for mastering in the home recording studio: Audacity, Ardour, and Ecasound. We'll use Audacity because it's entry-level. Its user interface is easy to understand, yet it's very powerful. When you've been doing this for awhile, you might find you'd prefer to work with Ardour or Ecasound instead.

While Audacity supports recording, its a fairly resource-intensive piece of software, and I haven't had a lot of luck with recording with Audacity. There are hundreds of thousands of users of Audacity whose experience contradicts my own, though. If you elect to use Audacity to record as well as master, you can eliminate Ecasound from the list of needed software.

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How to Build a Home Recording Studio

2005-05-20T14:50:00.000+02:00

To build a home recording studio may not be as difficult and expensive as it sounds. It all depends on what you want from it.

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To build a home recording studio in the basement or any other room in the home has become quite popular as equipment and technology has grown cheaper and better. I have done this myself and that's the reason for this web log, to share my home recording studio experiences with you.

Home Recording Studio Mic Setup

2005-05-18T06:50:00.000+02:00

No home recording studio can function without proper mic placement. In order to position everything correctly you will need mic stands for all you digital recording. Placing your monitors for mixing with home recording studio monitor stands will help you postion for the perfect listening enviorment. You will also need mic pop filters to insure your recording are free of air created pops in your home recording studio.

Home recording studio tips:

1: Don't be cheap on mic costs

Start with at least one good condenser microphone that you can use to capture quality vocals and acoustic instruments in your home recording studio.

2: Don't be cheap on cable costs

If you do, you will forever be searching for phantom noises, pops, crackles and intermittent connections around your studio, instead of recording music!

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Home Recording Studio Popless

2005-05-17T07:04:00.000+02:00

Have you ever seen one of those screens that pro studios use in front of the vocal microphones? Ya know those things that most people think are spit guards? Well. they're not...

Actually those unit are usually referred to as a "Popless". What they do is help remove, or at least minimize the "pop" that some people's voices introduce to a microphone when singing words that start with a "P" or a similarly powerful sound like that in your home recording studio.

What it does, in effect, is filter some of the air from the voice so it doesn't all hit the home recording studio microphone as hard as when it left the mouth. It sort of "softens" the air flow, but doesn't distort or change the personality of the voice itself.

Have you ever seen the price for these units?!?!?! Music stores and pro audio stores sometimes charge a lot of money for these silly little things, and they can be built for nearly nothing if you know where to go from the home recording studio and what to buy.

Just find your local craft store and ask someone where they keep their needlepoint supplies. In that section you will find small, wooden frames that come in pairs, one fits inside of the other and the outside frame can be tightened against the inside frame. This piece is the basic component of your Popless for your home recording studio.

After getting that, all you need is some thin nylon material like the stuff women's leg nylons are made from, heck you can even cut up a pair of your mom's, girlfriend's or wives old nylons and use that to make a realnice popless for your home recording studio.

Take the two wooden rings apart and stretch the nylon over the smaller ring (one or two layers should be plenty) and then tighten the larger ring around the smaller ring with the nylon between them making sure the nylon is stretched tight (that can be a trick).

There ya go, your popless is done...the only thing left is mounting it in from of the mic in your home recording studio. This is where the store bought units are cool cuz they have a gooseneck or something similar to attach to the mic stand. However, I have sometimes just taped the home-made popless to a second home recording studio mic stand and placed it in front of the mic and it works great, obviously it doesn't look the prettiest, but it works, and that is the key in the world of Do-It-Yourself, right?

Home Recording Studio Basics

2005-05-16T06:43:00.000+02:00

The most critical variable in the home recording studio is having a keyboard near your computer keyboard. Ideally, you want to be able to press record and play at the same time your other hand triggers notes. You also want to hear your music in perfect stereo when your head is pointed to the computer monitor, and also when you are at your mixing desk. Having 2 sets of speakers in your home recording studio helps. I suggest near field monitors pointing at you when you look at your computer screen and larger mid field monitors when you are facing your mixing desk. You switch back and forth as you build the song. While you are editing the song on the computer you can use the near fields at a moderate-to-low volume to save ear fatigue in the home recording studio, and as you do your final mix, you can use the big guns to critically evaluate depth, boominess, crispness, balance and other issues. Your tweeters should be at ear level. That's pretty important. Speakers sound different off axis. Build everything else in your home recording studio around these considerations. Avoid putting speakers in corners. Move them a few feet out if it has to sit in a corner so you don't get an unwanted bass boost.

Home Recording Studio Recommended Reading

2005-05-12T07:13:00.000+02:00

Tips for Home Recording Studio Musicians by John Harris - There are so many lovely-jubbley books out there on this thorny home recording studio subject, but unfortunately many of them don't Cut the Mustard but they do Cost the Earth. This one does the former and avoids the latter extremely well. It's basic, so no glossy photos and ads, just tons of well illustrated use-able home recording studio Information.

Nice and clearly written by an experienced craftsman, and it deals with all types of instruments in detail. Well written and plenty of "hands on" stuff to try. I have it and others in my collection many a year now and have used them often - still do a reference back to 'em when I'm recording in my home recording studio har-har.

Basics of a Home Recording Studio Mic Cabinet

2005-05-11T06:57:00.000+02:00

Your home recording studio is not a pro studio. You probably don't have to be ready for any recording situation that comes up. Also, you studio is probably not in competition with the Record Plant or Abbey Road. You probably record the same instruments over an over. Probably vocals, guitars, drums, amp cabinets and perhaps a few unique instruments you have. At the TweakLab, for example, I record vocalists, my guitars, various world percussion and some exotic flutes and strings. For my needs, a large condenser for vocals, flutes, a small condenser for acoustic strings, drums and delicate things, a dynamic for general purpose stuff and miking amps, an omnidirectional stereo mic for location and sampling suit my needs just about perfectly. Home Recording Studio. Being more into synths and samplers, I've tended to put my hard earned bucks there, rather than into mics. Now that I am getting into delivering super high quality samples of world instruments, I am upgrading my mics. The Neumann TLM 103, Rode NT4 and Shure SM81 LC are probably in my future. But if I were just recording my own music as a hobby, I would stay with my Rode NT1, SM57, Octava M12 and Sony DAT Mic probably forever. So consider your home recording studio needs, and what you actually do. Then get a good sounding mic for each thing you do.

Home Recording Studio

2005-05-10T06:44:00.000+02:00

Synthesizers, samplers, drum machine, ReCycle-based loop player, mixer, effects, pattern sequencer and more. As many of each as your home recording studio computer can handle. Reason is an infinitely expandable music workstation on a CD-ROM, complete with its own realtime sequencer, perfect for your home recording studio!

Making music should be as easy as powering up a computer in your home recording studio, loading up a powerful piece of music software, and getting down to business. And it is. Reason 3.0 is a virtual studio rack with all the tools and instruments you need to turn your ideas into music. And it's more than just a set of excellent synths and effects. It's a complete home recording studio in a box. Step into the age of Reason.

Home Recording Studio Song Mixing

2005-05-10T06:38:00.000+02:00

I'd now like to share my methods of mixing a song in your home recording studio and the process of applying effects to enhance your music and turn your composition into a number one hit - ahem, maybe not but it should help you get a good home recording studio mix all the same!!

OK, again I'd say there are NO RULES when it comes to home recording studio audio engineering. You must experiment to find what works well for you. Every extreme has an opposite and remember the afternoon in the home recording studio knows what the morning never expected!! What I'm saying is - you can apply these basic principles, and then mould them to your own way of working. See what works for your voice, guitar playing, anything else in your song and create your own unique style and sound. The best bands, singers, performers etc all have a sound and this comes down to their music being mixed and produced in their own unique ways....

I start my home recording studio mixes by returning all sliders to zero. The mix you create depends on the type of music you play and what you want the sound to be. I play straight on ROCK so I'll tell you about my mixes which tend to be guitar orientated with a solid home recording studio backline. You can change accordingly to suit yourself.

I usually start with my Drums, setting the volume to an acceptable level and I usually pan these straight down the middle of the mix. I usually add compression to all my home recording studio drum tracks and I sometimes add reverb...do this as required but experiment here. NOTE: Be careful when compressing - over compression can suck the life out of any track to the point of making it sterile which is HIGHLY undesirable!

Next up I set the Rhythm Guitars in my home recording studio mix. I pan one left and one right (anywhere between 50-75) usually and adjust volumes to ensure I can hear both guitars in the mix. I don't add any effects to my Rhythm Guitars as I use the VAMP for this purpose, recorded with amp simulation and effects. I also keep my guitars to the front of the mix and fairly loud due to the home recording studio rock music I usually produce.

Now, I set the level of the bass and I pan this down the middle of the mix too. I always compress my bass but again this is optional. Experiment, add any effects you want, adjust the volume when you add the effects etc and ensure you can hear your drums and bass clearly, with the guitars accompanying this. Ensure at this stage your rhythm section is clearly defined and not muddy. A good mix will allow all instruments a space on the sonic stage i.e. you can listen and hear each instrument clearly.

After all this is done, I move on to vocals. I almost always compress my vocals to smooth out the volume and I also add reverb and EQ to set the vocals back in the mix and take away the flat sound. I like to mix the Lead Vocal first and then mix in the Backing Vocals around this. A nice wee trick is to use a double tracked backing vocal (copy and paste the same track if necessary) and add different effects, EQ and compression settings on each track, panned left and right so the backing track "surrounds" the main vocal without touching it. This takes experimentation but practice and it will start to become clear when it's been done properly.

Finally, I add my guitar solos to the mix adjusting the levels as required. Again, I NEVER add effects or compression (or EQ) to my guitar solos. I simply adjust the volume. If you record a clean solo and have enough effects within your app, you COULD add effects etc here. I don't as I use the VAMP but again, it comes down to what you are producing and the sound your want to achieve.

Now I listen, listen, listen. I spend a while making tweaks, and then listen again. Repeat ALL the above as necessary until you can hear EVERY Track in the song clearly, use EQ wisely so each track home recording studio COMPLIMENTS the others rather than sitting on "top" of the mix, they are all blended together. Finally, ensure your master output meter (usually a VU meter) is NOT clipping. Lower this accordingly and you're now ready for FINAL MIXDOWN!!!!

Congratulations...you have now tracked and mixed a song. This is now referred to as a "Pre-Master" (as it's home recording studio not mastered funnily enough) and is often the basis of a demo for bands, etc.

This is all subjective. The main thing you are trying to achieve is a good "mix". All this means is, you have a song where you can hear all the instruments and volume levels that compliment each other. No one track is too loud/quiet and nothing sits on "top" of the song. Everything sits in the mix and when you reach this, you can be sure it's a good mix!!

Have fun and ROCK ON!

Home Recoring Studio Book

2005-05-09T09:24:00.000+02:00

A technical expert has simplified the confusing process of buying recording equipment and setting up a home recording studio for hobby or business purposes. John J. Volanski, an electrical and audio engineer, has written a new book entitled Sound Recording Advice to help guide neophytes and even those with some audio recording background in the set up and operation of a home recording studio. The book is being released in October of 2002 and is being published by Pacific Beach Publishing.

The art of making quality recordings goes far beyond plugging a microphone into a tape deck and pushing the RECORD button. Adding confusion to the process, technology has now provided more ways than ever to record audio: multi-track cassette decks, multi-track reel-to-reel decks, multi-track MiniDisc recorders, multi-track disk-based and tape-based digital recorders, and even home computers with audio interface cards. If you add to that a bewildering array of digital and analog mixers, power conditioners, reverb and echo signal processors, equalizers, enhancers, synthesizers, samplers, amp and speaker modelers, and products to tame unruly acoustics, then you have a nearly vertical learning curve for any musician or hobbyist interested in recording audio at home.

Despite the daunting challenge, more and more people are now interested in making their own audio recordings at home rather than paying for time in a professional recording studio. These interested people include high school, college and private music students, singing groups, bands of all types interested in making demo recordings to interest record companies, individuals wanting to record advertising jingles or other commercial material, people developing slide shows or multimedia shows with audio content, authors recording audiobooks, and the hobbyists who simply enjoy recording their own musical creations at home.

Line 6 in your Home Recording Studio

2005-05-05T07:10:00.000+02:00

The all new Bass home recording studio PODxt has brand spankin? new amp and cabinet models! Not only that, it can deliver 6 simultaneous stompbox and studio effects that can be flexibly routed to meet your unique sonic needs. Built from the same award-winning modeling home recording studio technology found in our flagship Vetta guitar amplifier, these effects include more classic models of filter, stompbox and studio effects as well as a dedicated compressor and a dedicated home recording studio 6-band semi-parametric EQ.

Known to guitarists the home recording studio world over as the ultimate tone toolbox, POD re-wrote the rules of guitar recording. The new generation PODXT proves you ain't heard nothing home recording studio yet. Amp tone from Line 6's flagship Vetta. Effects based on* Echoplex, Uni-Vibe, Tube Screamer, and over 40 more. Virtual microphones with on/off axis options and unbelievable authenticity. USB digital out.

PODXT is the new must-have magic box for outrageously home recording studio uncompromising guitar tone. Start clicking around, my friend, and hold on to your hat.

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Gyutar Sound Processing

2005-05-04T07:54:00.000+02:00

Guitar sound processing is a special theme. In this case the sound should not be polished but created. It is well known that a direct hard disk recording from guitar`s pickups gives a flat, poor sound. It can not be compared with what you hear on the famous musicians` concerts or CDs.

You need a whole bunch of analog and digital-analog devices to make a professional guitar sound in a studio. An audio signal goes to a tube preamplifier, then to a transistor (or tube) distortion, sustain, compressor, equalizer, after that to a guitar effects processor, tube power amplifier and speakers. A guitar speakers` sound turns into electric signals by microphones. Finally it goes to a mixing console, monitors and a type recorder.

Using my home recording studio

2005-05-04T07:49:00.000+02:00

Using my home recording studio, I can record music midi files including Sibelius, Finale, Cubase, or any midi or handwritten file and you will be amazed at how realistic your composition will sound. My recording studios use only the best professional sound libraries. Listen to my midi to mp3 demos to hear for yourself. Make use of my home recording studio today, this is the place to record music with the highest degree of accuracy and quality. Look at the table in order to learn more about midi recording.

I also can record symphonies, orchestras, rap, pop, jazz, rap, and any style you can think of.

I can change your midi file into a realistic and convincing piece using my recording studios. I can record music midi files of any style, and by using my home recording studio, I can either burn your songs for you on a CD, or you can request the mp3 for immediate download. I also offer great prices and don't charge hourly.

There are many recording studios that charge hourly. Inside my page, I have demos that you can listen to which were recorded with my own home recording studio to prove to you the quality recording. I have the midi file, and the converted midi file for you to listen to and compare. Come inside now, and record music you never thought possible. If you want to use my home recording studio to record music

home digital recording studio

2005-05-03T10:25:00.000+02:00

home digital recording studio

MP3s in their own home recording studio, or garage or basement. You might want to do it yourself to save money, have more artistic control, or to learn the music business. If any of this home digital recording studio sounds like your dream...like I said, this is the place! home digital recording studio

home digital recording studio

Record live audio.

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Record live audio.
Dub from tapes and records.
Record from any audio source inside, or outside your PC.
Has unique features that will help you record high quality audio tracks that will use the full dynamic range of an audio CD without any distortion, or clipping. See: " How to record high quality audio"
Burns audio CDs that can be played in any audio CD player.
More reliable than using an expensive stand-alone CD recorder which will frequently cause you to lose your recording when you inadvertently record to a faulty CD.
Will never lose your audio becuase of a faulty CD.
Full context sensitive help with lots of helpful pictures.
Read online version: " AudioRoom CD Recorder Help"

Sound Recording Advice

2005-05-03T07:35:00.000+02:00

Home Recording Studio is a thorough yet simplified guide on how to set up a home recording studio. The book covers all aspects of recording including power, grounding, acoustics, studio layout, what new and used equipment to buy and where to buy it for lowest prices, how to record various instruments and then mix, bounce tracks and generate a master recording. The book also includes hundreds of other important tips, including how to make and modify your own equipment and troubleshoot studio problems

How to Build a Home Recording Studio

2005-04-23T09:55:00.000+02:00

Interested in using Linux to create a home recording studio? Then having Linux at your side could be an answer for you. Since the Linux OS has so many great apps that will allow you to make all of your home recording studio dreams a reality, the next step is to look at the hardware side of things.

Whether you like it or not, you need to have a PC at your home recording studio that can handle the chore of working with sounds in a real time format. Personally, I believe that anything 1GHz or above ought to do the home recording studio job quite nicely.

Building a home recording studio isn't hard, nor does it require a great deal of technical knowledge. The biggest problems musicians face in building a home recording studio stem from all the myths and pseudo-truths that have developed around the art of recording. But with a little bit of elbow grease and a great selection of open source software, you can build an adequate home recording studio. Making it perfect? Well, let's worry about that another day. We start with basic selections of hardware and software. The software part is easy: I will dictate it to you. The hardware part requires some discussion, but in order to discuss the hardware we need to first talk about the software we'll be using. To record basic tracks, we'll be using Ecasound, a popular command-line sound recorder and processor. Ecasound supports everything under the sun, but we'll be using it only to record and to play back tracks. More specifically, we'll be using it to play back tracks already recorded while recording new tracks, and we'll be recording the tracks one at a time at the home recording studio.

Source: Lockergnome

Monitor Placement

2005-04-19T07:15:00.000+02:00

Hi Everybody. Today's home recording studio update basically consists of a link for the home recording studio guys and girls who want to know more about home recording studio monitor placement.

Home Recording Studio Monitor Placement

If I dont have an specific topic relating to the home recording studio on here, mail me and I'll post a link to somebody who does ;)

Eliminating Hums and Buzzes - Part 2

2005-04-18T10:43:00.000+02:00

Stacking different pieces of equipment on top of each other in your home recording studio, or racking them together without a gap, may cause a problem in the home recording studio due to one unit's AC power transformer being located in a spot that induces hum in the other unit. You'll be able to detect this quickly when initially assembling your home recording studio gear, but if your home recording studio is already wired, try turning off equipment just around the unit that is humming in the home recording studio. If the humming stops, you can move the unit that's causing the problem to another location.

Usually, equipment encased in steel provides maximum containment of magnetic fields, whereas plastic and aluminum cases provide almost none. If some of your home recording studio gear is steel-cased and other units not, try to rearrange it so your plastic or aluminum-cased devices are adjacent to your steel-cased equipment. The other option is to leave a single-space gap in the rack between two pieces of gear. You only need to do this, however, if you know you have a problem.

Source: Guitar9.com

Eliminating Hums and Buzzes - Part 1

2005-04-13T16:12:00.000+02:00

A common source of hum in your home recording studio is generated when audio cables are placed too close to AC cables, outlets and switches. This includes running audio cables too close to the wall, as AC cabling exists behind the walls to connect each outlet in the home recording studio. AC cables, power strips and external power supplies are a primary source of hum in your home recording studio, because they emit large magnetic fields that can be picked up quite easily. To combat this problem in your home recording studio, audio cables are normally shielded with woven copper wires (screening wires) to deflect any stray electromagnetic fields that may be coming from AC power cables. However these home recording studio screens are not perfect, and the effectiveness of the screening can vary with the quality of the audio cable and the connectors in the home recording studio.

In order to reduce hum from this situation in your home recording studio, it's very important to route your audio cables away from (not touching) the AC cables from your home recording studio gear, as well as power-hungry elements such as beefy power home recording studio amplifiers and external power supplies. The home recording studio rule of thumb is, when an audio cable has to cross the path of an AC cable, make sure it crosses at a right angle, which minimizes the pickup of this type of hum in your home recording studio.

Check back soon for part 2 of this home recording studio tutorial.

Source: Guitar9.com

A Wealth of Recording Information on One Page!

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A Wealth of Home Recording Studio Information on One Page!
Welcome to The Home Recording Studio Info Page. The aim of this page is to provide you with all the needed information to set up a new home recording studio or to maintain your existing one.

Visit this page frequintly to stay up to date!

Comments and suggestions are still welcome.

The Home Recording Info Page

Compression in Reason

2005-03-30T07:46:00.000+02:00

Compression is one of the few concept that many younger home recording studio artist have trouble coming to grips with. In this tutorial I shall touch upon some of the finer points of uses for home recording studio compressors. Before I get down to the nitty gritty, I must make one disclaimer: all of this information isn't the matter-of-fact way to compress, but mearly a push in the right direction. A home recording studio artist friend of mine once said, "Hearing is believing". This saying holds true to using compressors in Reason, mixing with home recording studio hardware, or on any other digital audio workstation.

Shaping sound with compressors
If home recording studio music was an ice sculpture, then think of compressors as the chain-saw used to carve the ice. Using the "attack" and "release" setting can be a great way to make a snare punchier or a bassline smoother. One would think that in order to make a sound punchier, that you would set the a fast "attack" home recording studio setting to achieve that sound. Actually, its the other way around. It breaks down like this:

* Punchier/Aggressive sound: slow 'attack', fast 'release'

* Smoother/Gentler sound: fast 'attack', slow 'release'

EQ before compressor, or compressor before EQ?
One of the constant questions I get is where to put the EQ and the compressor in the chain of signal flow. To be honest its really a matter of opinion, when it comes to this subject. If you place the EQ before the compressor, then your gonna be compressing your EQed signal. Usually this is the way I patch it up, in reason, because I'll EQ out the sounds I don't want then use the compressor to boost the signal of the sound that I desire. Then again placing the EQ after the compressor might be somewhat useful if your using multiple compressors. Which brings me to my next subject matter below.

A whole lotta compression going on
Is one compressor really enough? It all depends on who you ask. Home recording studio compressors can be used to not only shape sounds, but make them a bit louder. Most home recording studio compressors have an input and an output gain. The trick is that you use one home recording studio compressor to boost your sound's level, then another compressor to shape the sound, then finally another compressor to level everything out. Its pretty much like a train, once home recording studio compressors connects to another in order to get the sound to where you want it placed in the mix. I shall warn you though, that this method can bring your CPU to its knees, if you don't bounce/sub-mix down your audio tracks. After bouncing down the tracks, normally I just run the rendered audio thru another step of compression to even out the rendered audio.

As I stated before, all this information is to help you build the foundations of a solid track. The only true way to know if your doing your home recording studio compression correctly is to simply A/B your mix on many different monitors and speakers. If your mix sounds pretty damn good out of crappy, little speakers then your heading in the right direction, with using home recording studio compressors.

Source: www.reasonfreaks.com

The importance of Audio Mastering

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All major recording labels' recording projects goes through the mastering process.

Even the very best home recording studio engineers with the most expensive home recording studio equipment needs to master their tracks. Mastering adds a dimension of sound quality that is absolutely essential for commercial success.

Another important part to mastering is the fact that you take your track out of your home recording studio and take it to an engineer to listen to it with fresh ears and giving him the oppertunity to better it.

A lot of home recording studio engineers develop a long-standing relationship with a certain mastering engineers who they know they can count on to bring out the best of their home recording studio tracks.

Home recording studio mastering is the difference between ending up with a track thats good or a track that is really great.

Ckeck back soon for more updates!

G

A Wealth of Recording Information on One Page!

2005-03-21T00:05:00.000+02:00

Hi, this is just a home recording studio update.. I thought that I might add, that if you would like to add content to Home Recording Studio Info, you can just mail me at:

hadez2000@yahoo.com

Setting up your home recording studio computer

2005-03-17T22:07:00.000+02:00

When you work with audio in your home recording studio you will need a machine that can pack a punch, because working with audio requires plenty of processor power. It is more than likely that you already have a personal computer in your home recording studio, but maybe you are experiencing a lag or some waiting for processes to finish in general. The best tip I can provide is to start by making sure that your home recording studio computer is up to the job. You can check this on the home recording studio computer itself. Just right click the My Computer icon on your desktop and select the Properties button. On Windows XP it can be found under Start and then System Information.

I have experienced it all, with a computer that is really to slow to do the job, it’s probably fine for normal sequencing work, but when you start using processing plug-ins, it can feel like you home recording studio computer is useless. Here are the suggested minimum requirements for a home recording studio computer to run most of the entry level home recording studio software packages. Most modern machines will pass the basic requirements easily.

800Mhz Processor or better
512MB RAM
120 Gig Hard drive
CD Writer
Stable Operating System

If you home recording studio computer doesn’t meet these requirements and you are serious about getting that home recording studio together the right way, it might be time to consider an upgrade.

Software packages that are good to start with on you home recording studio computer is programs like: Acid Music, Cubase, Fruity Loops, Cool Edit and Reason.

Remember to check back for more home recording studio tips.

G

Creating that perfect bass line in your home recording studio...

2005-03-16T21:17:00.000+02:00

In your home recording studio you might make a whole lot of different genre songs, but one thing is for sure, if you’re going to make modern music in your home recording studio, you are going to need a thumping bass line. In today’s post, I’m going to tell you how to make yourself a fantastic, club-thumping bass line.

The Track’s Frequency Range:

If you want your car or home recording studio system to thump real nice when you put your CD in it will be pointless to use a normal bass patch whose energy lies only below Forty Hertz, most home systems won’t play sounds that is in a low frequency. You also need to make sure that your bass has a lot going on in the 70 to 90 Hertz frequency range. The next step will tell you exactly how to create a sound in your home recording studio that is both felt and heard on a number of different speaker and sub woofer systems.

Waveforms with Layering:

The key is in the sine and triangle wave schemes. By utilizing these you can get that low thumping bass tone we as home recording studio experts love. These waveforms don’t really have any harmonics, so you tend to feel them more, but not necessarily hear them. If you are using a synthesizer or a sampler, layer these waveforms with rich in harmonics. Try using something like a square or a saw waveform. Use the home recording studio synthesizer's low pass filter cutoff to trim away some of the higher harmonics from this bass patch.

Mastering:

The final step comes only once the track is in the mastering stage. Its all about fine tuning that line and blend it properly with the rest of the tune. A trick I found to work was to pay that little extra attention to the 20 Hertz range in your multiband harmonic exciter.

Good Luck and Have Fun!

Check back soon for more Home Recording Studio updates.

Music Terminology For Sheetmusic

2005-03-16T20:19:00.000+02:00

Below is a list of terms used in musical terminology which are likely to occur on sheet music that you are going to use in your home recording studio. Many of these terms have a Italian origin, reinforcing the heritage of much music originating from Italy.

It is important to arm yourself with these if you plan to make your home recording studio work.

Terms

The term accelerando is a directive for the musician to gradually increase the tempo.

Adagio - slow.

Adagietto - rather slow.

Adagissimo - very slow

Ad libitium - the speed and manner are left to the performer in the home recording studio.

Affrettando - hurrying, pressing onwards.

Agitato - agitated.

Alla Breve - indicates two minims in a bar, formerly four.

The term appassionato (from Italian) tells the performer to play (or sing) passionately in the home recording studio.

In Italian, arpeggio literally means like a harp. It is used to indicate that the consecutive notes of a certain chord are to be played quickly one after another, instead of at the same moment. In piano music this is sometimes a solution used to play a wide-ranged chord which, technically speaking, cannot be played simultaneously with one hand. Music played on the limited hardware of video game computers uses a similar technique to create a chord from one tone generator.

Common time in the home recording studio is the time signature 4/4: four beats per measure, each beat a quarter note. 4/4 is often written on the musical staff as C. The symbol is not a "C" as an abbreviation for "common time", but a broken circle: the full circle at one time stood for triple time, 3/4.

The directive crescendo is for the musician to play gradually louder than previously. Cf. diminuendo, dynamics (music).

Cut time is synonymous to the meter 2/2: two half-note beats per measure. This is notated and played like common time (4/4), except with the note lengths halved. Cut time is denoted by 3/4 a circle with a vertical line through it, which resembles the cent symbol ¢. This comes from a literal "cut" of the C symbol of common time. Thus, a quarter note in cut time is only half a beat long. A measure has only two beats. The other common meter with two-beat measures is fast 6/8, in which note lengths are 2/3 their normal values.

The term diminuendo (or dim.), is an indication for the musician to play with gradually decreasing volume. It is the opposite of crescendo.

Dolce is Italian for "sweet", and tells the performer to sing (or play) sweetly.

Dynamics refers to the relative volume of the musician playing the work.

The term forte, or just the notation f, is a directive for the musician to play loudly. The term fortissimo, ff, is similar - the musician is to play very loudly.

Glissando is a continuous sliding from one pitch to another (a "true" glissando), or an incidental scale played while moving from one melodic note to another (an "effective" glissando).

The term morendo denotes dying away in tone or tempo.

A mezzo-soprano is a female singer with a range usually extending from the A below middle C to the F an eleventh above middle C. Mezzo-sopranos generally have a daker vocal tone than sopranos, and their vocal range is between that of a soprano and that of an alto.

The indication piano, or the notation p, is an directive for the musician to play softly. The related term pianissimo, pp, directs the musician to play very softly.

Rubato is a fluctuating tempo against a steady one in a musical phrase.

Scordatura is an alternate tuning used for the open strings of a string instrument.

The indication or term staccato means to play with a sharp attack, and briefly. In music notation a small dot under the note indicates that the note is to be sounded staccato.

The directive smorzando (or smorz.) is a directive for the musician to smother the notes.

The indication or term tenuto (Italian held), is to touch on a note slightly longer than usual, but without generally altering the note's value.

Tremolo can mean a rapid repetition of the same note, or an alternation between two or more notes. It can also mean a rapid and repetitive variation in pitch for the duration of a note.

The directive una corda (Italian one cord), is a directive in piano music for the musician to depress the soft pedal, reducing the volume of the sound in the home recording studio. Its counterpart, tre corda is the opposite - the soft pedal is to be released.

Source:

http://www.fact-index.com/m/mu/musical_terminology.html

A Wealth of Recording Information on One Page!

2005-03-16T19:59:00.000+02:00

Welcome to The Home Recording Studio Info Page. The aim of this page is to provide you with all the information you will need to set up a new home recording studio or to maintain your existing one.

Comments and suggestions are always welcome.

The Home Recording Info Page
A Wealth of Recording Information on One Page!