From the category archives:

Planning Your Recording Studio

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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Headphones – Noise Canceling Review – Part 2

February 15, 2007

In the first part we reviewed the differences between noise reduction and noise canceling headphones. Let’s go on now and look first of all at what Bose has to offer, and what product information they provide.
Then read the helpful review below by Steve Joseph

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Headphones – Noise Canceling Reviews – Part 1

February 13, 2007

We’ve said before – don’t forget headphones as your budget for your recording studio…Invest in one or more good sets of professional headphones for use with your music recording software.
You want a set that is

as neutral as possible
made for the recording studio

Headphones made for consumer listening will color the sound, so avoid them.
But what about [...]

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Making Music On Your Home Computer – 5 Easy Steps

February 2, 2007

Home recording studios have mushroomed in popularity thanks to 2 fast-moving trends…

rapid advances in technology

music software, computer systems, and recording equipment

equally rapid drop in cost of functionality

especially in digital sound processing equipment

This means you can set up a sound recording studio at home which is capable of delivering credibly professional results, provided you also have [...]

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Nearfield Studio Monitors for your Recording Studio

February 2, 2007

Those nearfield monitors you ordered arrived at last just yesterday. Those precise, active studio monitors you’ve been drooling over for months now… You tore open the packaging, and dropped them (oops, I mean placed them carefully!) on top of the mixer desk, same as we all see in the magazines.
Today, reality begins to settle in..”Why [...]

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Music Recording Software – Making the right choices

January 31, 2007

Music recording software comes in distinct “flavors”. You’ve probably heard of, or used some of these:

Free or low cost:

Audacity
Kristal Audio Engine
Apple GarageBand 2

Professional

Digidesign Pro-Tools ($450 for MBox 2 LE up to $lots+)
Apple Logic Pro ($75 for Express version – $1000)
Cakewalk Sonar ($100 – $620)
Steinberg Cubase ($100 – $550)

Opinion:
Steinberg’s CuBase system – popular and widely used [...]

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