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Planning Your Recording Studio

Recording Studio to fit your budget?

May 8, 2007

Ken and Dave at HomeMusicRecording.com published a series a few days ago suggesting possible recording gear to buy based on your available budget – from $100 to $9000.
One useful surprise to me was that nowhere did Dave specify a mixing desk as essential. Basically, mixing by mouse is very practical, given recording software’s capability to [...]

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Recording Studio Equipment – Cables

March 2, 2007

In a music recording studio, cables matter a lot! Get the wrong ones, and you pick up interference, they generate basckground noise, and the connections break too easily.
Almost nothing else has higher impact on recording studio operations than the humble cable.
So how come cables are so often forgotten until the last minute (or until they [...]

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Recording Studio Equipment – DI Boxes

March 1, 2007

Question: What sits on the music recording studio floor all night long, and doesn’t even hum?
Answer: Joe’s DI box !!
Y’all (I’m just back from Texas) know the basic recording studio equipment:

mics
recorders
mixers
monitors
compression
effects

But there’s couple of unsung heroes tucked away (probably) that should be on top of every engineer’s essentials list:

DI boxes
Cables

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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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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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