Thanks to advance technology, including music production software more musicians could setup their own home studio.This article will provide the basic tips for you and your music, based on a low budget and needs.
What Equipment Do You Need For The First Start?
If you are going to setup your studio, keep in mind to choose a high-performance computer with a big RAM and a lot of memory space. Recording audio needs a huge memory space. For recording purposes, running other heavy applications could hamper the computer. I prefer to use a desktop Mac, but a Window PC is also good to make your recording a breeze.
Microphone
To get the best sound quality, never compromise with the quality of the microphone. You have to invest for a good quality microphone. Small diaphragm microphones are quite suitable for recording guitar/bass amps and snare drum/toms/hand percussion.Of course, it is much better to have a large-diaphragm condenser microphone. The better quality microphone you can afford, the better the quality of the sound you can capture for your music recording.
Speakers or headphones
A good pair of headphones or a set of studio monitor speakers is important to check out the quality of the music. Good quality speakers or headphones can pick up any disturbances and edit them out.
Audio Interface
An audio interface will provide you with input/output channels. To connect it to your acoustic instruments, microphone, speakers/headphones, you need to use one that is compatible with your computer operating system.
Mixers
For a better control over the wide range of sounds of variety of instruments such as drums and keyboard,a sound card or an audio interface is not enough.
To record more than eight tracks at once, you need a big eight-bus mixer that has a power to handle up to 24 signals going in and eight sub mixes going out to the eight inputs on the computer audio interface channels.
For recording less than eight channels at once, you can use a pre eight-channel microphone with direct outputs on eight channels.
If this too expensive, you can try a mixer with eight microphone inputs that have 'insert' in each of its microphone channels. You can use these inserts as an unbalanced "send" to the inputs of the recorder or audio interface.
Music Production Software
Wide ranges of packages that include Logic Pro, Cakewalk, and Cool Edit allow you to record, transfer and mix tracks.
Now, you are able to setup your home studio that will get you recording a professional breeze.
Grace is a graduated musician and music arranger. Her article she shares hopefully can help all aspiring musician to setup a home studio and successfully learn about the process of music production method. http://www.promusicproducer.com
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