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If you would like to produce your own personal beats, you need to know how you are going to perform and also just what you are planning to use. This implies choosing among audio components, personal computer music software or maybe a balanced and practical pairing of both for use within your production recording studio.

If you want to make slammin’ gangster rap beats or perhaps any other style of beats easily, you should make an effort to pick the particular methodology that should deliver the results that suit your needs right at that moment. First, it can be ideal to test the water as inexpensively and as simply as you can while you figure out if beat making is really for you. After that, you will of course make some decisions about whether or not to work with hardware components or perhaps computer software.

Perhaps hardware is the way to go. When it is implemented in the right way, great, prime quality output may be achieved frequently and consistently. Hardware recording equipment and the techniques to use it correctly are still being utilized regularly by a large number of top producers and leading studios at present and will be for the foreseeable future. Hardware reliability and top quality sound are two elements that still make it very hard to trump, despite the fact that the ease of use and sound quality produced by the leading software keeps increasing by leaps and bounds all the time, no matter what anyone may tell you.  Read more...

After I had blown quite a few thousand dollars in a recording studio, a sound engineer friend made a cool suggestion. “Why don’t you buy an ADAT, and do some tracking at home?” So I purchased that venerable 8 track digital tape recorder and saved oodles of time and money putting all my synth tracks on tape. That was my start in home recording, and oh, the fun I’ve had since!

What are the basic pieces of equipment and software one needs to record at home?

There are so many ways to do this! Well, since you’re reading this, you probably have a computer, so let’s base our home studio on the computer. We’ll start by understanding the different functions we will need filled in home recording. Then we’ll understand what the best hardware and software products to do it are. In general, the principle I recommend is to use fewer pieces of equipment with more functions. That approach saves time and, usually, money. As you advance in your recording skills, you can go for more specialized equipment.

There are two distinct phases in recording a song. One is the “in” phase, referring to everything needed to get your music performance into a basic recorded form, with however many tracks you need. The second phase is the “out” phase, where you will take that raw music, process it and create the final stereo version.

The “in” phase — sending the music to your computer  Read more...

We exist in a realm of audio, don’t we?  A bit of that sound is voice, some is music and much of it is just….noise, right?  But no matter what sound it really is, recording and modifying it so that it fill a particular purpose is a big business called…….professional recording.

For the most part recording was done in mainstream recording studios.  Initially the whole ‘business’ of recording required substantial expertise and expensive gear hence naturally doing it in one’s home (AKA: Do-it-yourself home recording) was not typical at all.

But that has changed.  Just recently the gear associated with recording tunes, voice (and noise) has gotten smaller, more advanced and (fortunately) much cheaper.  Basically home recording has become quickly within reach of average people who have ordinary budgets.

Notice:  Surely…there’s always ‘high-end’, ‘advanced’ home recording technology around however that’s not the point of the essay.

Let’s first recognize that it’s not challenging to find the home recording equipment anymore.  Not only is current gear considerably more obtainable but, honestly, there’s lots of amazing high quality used recording gear available on the market too.

Hence, that being the case, why should you want to create a home recording studio?  Or put otherwise…why would you intend to go to all that trouble of putting together the capital, taking a bit of time to create home recording studio, finding out how to do the aspects of process that you have no idea how to do?  Read more...

Thanks to technological innovations, including professional recording software more artists are creating home recording studios, and even laptop studios. This article will provide tips and ideas to help you create the perfect home based studio for you and your music, based on your budget and needs.

Before you begin, consider whether you plan to record all of the songs and or musicians and instruments associated with a project all at once, or individually. You should also factor your familiarity with computers and recording software in general into the equation.

If you arent as familiar with recording software tools as you would like to be, the good news is that most music recording software offers simplified versions of their full software programs, that can be upgraded to full versions later, once youve mastered the basics. These programs provide a good introduction to the fundamentals of recording software.

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If you are going to build a studio, keep in mind that software studios are much more space saving than hardware studios, but if space is not an issue, then a traditional hardware studio may be your best option.

A mobile laptop studio is always a good option for the truly pressed for space, since this offers you the greatest flexibility, and most laptops are more than capable of running recording and mixing software and programs. This means that your recording studio can go with you, and you will never leave home without it.  Read more...

Having your own home recording studio is one of the biggest advantages you can provide for yourself as a musician.  In this 7 part report on setting up your own home recording studio, we are discussing the necessary recording equipment and software that your home recording studio will need.   As we arrive at the last section of this series, it is time to discuss the options for putting your music into the hands of the public.

Years ago, music was recorded on cassette tape, 8-track tape and vinyl records.  The most popular choice for many beginning bands was the cassette tape and so we have the term “mix tape” as part of our vernacular today.   Modern music produced in home recording studios has been made possible by our advances in technology that have brought us the CD burner and the ability to store music in mp3 files.

Since most of us who are recording music in a home recording studio intend to use it for CD production, we will primarily be focusing on CD burners.  The new home recording studio can use:

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the CD burner that is built into your computer.  The upside:  It is equipment you already own so it isn’t going to cost you extra.The downside:  You can only burn one CD at a time.  This option will work for a new start up but when you start to get orders for hundreds of CD’s, you won’t have time to burn them all one at a time.  Read more...