Dorothy and her cute doggy Toto do not try to find way home from behind the rainbow any more after an English rock band Pink Floyd gave their own version of Pink Floyd Wizard of Oz, Dark Side of the Rainbow.
Wait! Wizard of Oz, an MGM movie, was made 1939 – according to my son, [...]
Instead of having to pay someone for a room in a studio, pay and engineer or engineers, and pay a session drummer you can now pay ONE person, the online session drummer. This will save you loads of money, and you won’t have to leave your home.
You just send the files of your songs to [...]
To get the best recording of an acoustic guitar, you really have to use one or more microphones. Acoustic guitars have a very wide frequency range, much more than electric guitars, so it’s best to use one or more condenser microphones, which generally have a better frequency response than dynamic microphones.. The sound you’ll get [...]
Most Home Recording Studios these days will use Windows based PC’s for their recording computer or Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) - conversely, most professional recording studio’s will use Macs. Ideally you should dedicate a PC to the recording process but means that you will probably need two PC’s, one for recording and one for all [...]
For most Home Recording Studio enthusiasts, recording drums is the most daunting prospect of all. People imagine that to get a reasonable sound, you need lots of specialist microphones, which means a huge cost, and you need to be able to record at least 8 tracks at the same time, so you need an expensive [...]
Your singing can be good even when the weather is bad. There are many tricks you can use for your singing voice during the cold and itchy throat season.
Learn more …Don’t Blame Your Bad Singing on the Weather
If you are planning to do some recording, the simplest and most convenient method these days entails the use of a PC. Fortunately, all PC’s have a little socket, connected to an audio interface inside the PC, where you can plug in a guitar, microphone or keyboard. There are also a number of free software [...]
The karaoke revolution opened a whole new avenue for amateur singers. With karaoke singing anyone can become a star. Kids can have loads of fun with karaoke singing.
Read on !!! Amateur Singers and Karaoke
This is where a lot of potentially good Home Recording Studios turn into noisy, nasty Home Recording Studios.
All AC supplies are extremely dirty. They carry all kinds of noise and spurious signals and the voltage can vary by 10% or more. The noise and spurious is generated by all kinds of electrical devices such as [...]
There is really no right or wrong microphone for any particular application, whatever sounds good is good is the general rule; but there are suitable and unsuitable starting points. The most common microphones available these days are Dynamic (Moving Coil) and Condenser microphones but Ribbon microphones are also making a comeback. Depending on the requirement, [...]
In any Home Recording Studio, or any professional one for that matter, the vocal track is probably going to be the most important part of the recording. Mess this up and you don’t have a song! Unfortunately, for most home recordings, this, (and maybe the drums), tends to be the weakest element. Often, poor equipment [...]
I guarantee that you will never create a perfect audio or music recording first time; and one of the characteristics of the track you will (nearly) always want to change is the frequency response or Equalization (EQ).
Equalization is used to achieve four things:
> To make a vocal or instrument sound cleaner, more defined and [...]
When it comes to the design and layout of a Home Music Recording Studio, most of us don’t have the luxury of dedicating space to separate functions: performing musicians, vocal booth, control room, loads of equipment and so on. So we have to do the best we can with what we’ve got. My studio is [...]
A long time ago, a very clever guy called Alexander Fleming discovered that if you introduced an electric current into a magnetic field, you produced motion. Conversely, if you moved a coil of wire within a magnetic field, you induced an electric current within the coil of wire. Most people are grateful for this invention [...]
In my Home Recording Studio, my most favorite part of the recording process is experimentation and nothing allows more creativity than recording the guitar and the search for killer electric guitar tones or clear, expressive acoustic sounds. Finding sounds that fit perfectly into the mix, whether it’s an acoustic rhythm part or a soaring solo [...]
Home Recording Studios generally do not have great acoustic properties. This affects monitoring and can have a big impact on the recording process. You need to be able to hear exactly what has been recorded and have an accurate reference for mixing and mastering. Sound reverberations and reflections can accentuate some frequencies and cause cancellations [...]
Making music sound dynamic is a huge part of the audio recording and mixing process. It can transform a lifeless recording into a vibrant one; it can even out the high and low levels and create interest by allowing the quietest sounds to be heard among the louder ones. It can maximize the overall listening [...]
Making a Home Recording Studio acoustically neutral is an essential part of producing good music recordings. Reverberations due to sound being reflected off hard surfaces can cause sounds at some frequencies to be accentuated, and at other frequencies to be reduced. Sound absorption and diffusion can occur and is especially noticeable at the low end [...]
Homestudiozone.com offers free advice and tips on how to create and operate a home recording studio including making your studio acoustically neutral, the layout, and electrical and audio cabling. How to record vocals, electric, acoustic and bass guitars, along with drums are covered.
This site also deals with how microphones work and how to select a [...]
In the Home Recording Studio world we often refer to dB’s. Guitarists will usually tell you to turn them up a couple of dB’s (rarely do they tell you to turn them down!), and mixing advice will often tell you to turn the level down a dB or so at some frequency or other. The [...]
Of all the aspects that make up a successful guitar home-study course, the integrated use of Video and written content is a definite must.
There is however a lot more to take into consideration before buying just any guitar lessons dvd set.
Backup support along with a proven track record, that proves the company or individual knows [...]
The GS-1000’s are the flagship headphone from Grado Labs. Grado Labs is a high end stereo headphone manufacturer out of New York. The GS1000 headphones feaure a dynamic open air driver and hand crafted Mahogany hear pieces. Click here to read more on Grado Labs GS1000 Series Headphones
You know that downloading movies and videogames online sure beats going to the movies or paying cable prices for Video on Demand. You can join the movie clubs and get free unlimited movie downloads for what cable tv charges you for 2-3 movies! That’s right, instead of constantly being charged for downloads, join [...]
Back in 1967 when The Beatles released their epoch-making Sgt. Pepper, the very first lines sung were “It was twenty years ago today…”. With Rock’n’Roll arguably less than 10 years old at the time, that seemed a long, long time.
But now, 40 years later, while Rock Music has splintered into a thousand tribes, seemingly dominated [...]
How to Play Guitar is a wonderful instrument and it is easy to learn how to play it. Several people just learn how to play the guitar by doing three simple steps. One, they bought (or borrowed) a guitar; Two, they memorized the chords; the last is that they buy a lyric magazine, pick a [...]