From the monthly archives:

February 2007

Top Tips on Acoustics for Creating Great Music Recordings at Home

February 28, 2007

Problem: Your Home is Designed for Living
So where is your home recording studio?
If you are like most home recordists it’ll be somewhere like…

spare room

extra bedroom

basement

garage

Often small, usually boxy, designed to be lived in, but not for producing great music.

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Digital Home Recording Studio – 3 Essentials

February 27, 2007

Your own home recording studio is a dream that is much easier to fulfill today than even a few years ago. Not only that, but the quality results can be so high that the whole recording industry is changing massively.
Add in the explosion of web usage and download capacity available, and you have a recipe [...]

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Recording Studio – Dress Matters

February 24, 2007

Style, presence, image….what’s cool to wear on stage for your live performance can kill in the recording studio. Kill your recording, that is…
On stage, what you wear creates 90% your image – some look great – bright colors and detailed designs. Most on-stage clothes are made of synthetic materials – like rayon, polyester, and nylon.

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Sound Card Latency Problem Solving

February 23, 2007

Sometimes the awesome power and quality of today’s digital recording tools add complexities that can confuse and frustrate you for far too many hours.
One of these puzzles can often be caused by latency problems.
So how can you diagnose and quickly solve latency issues?…

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Sound Cards – What Matters?

February 22, 2007

What is a Sound Card?

a critical piece of piece of electronic wizardry…

which translates the artists performance…

into the form your recording software needs, based on

the artist’s performance – captured by microphone, or direct from the instrument

If your sound card was provide with your PC or MAC – save up and buy a third party sound card [...]

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Headphones – Noise Canceling Review – Part 3

February 17, 2007

This is the final part of a 3-part series on noise-canceling headphones.
In case you missed them, here’s the links to the earlier sections:
Part 1
Part 2
While this technology is not primarily designed for recording studio applications, some engineers like to use them as much to protect their hearing as anything else.
In this part, we’ll review Sony’s [...]

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