Many beginning home recordists get confused between recording to a mono or stereo audio track. Isn’t stereo better and wider? So why record to a mono track? What usually happens is they try to record to a stereo track, but find that their vocal is only playing through one speaker. If the DAW lets them, [...]
The movie ‘Field of Dreams’ has etched this quote in all of our hearts forever, “If you build it, they will come” but does it work for the recording studio business. Not usually. The recording studio business is very unique. Usual marketing and business practices don’t really work the same. You can’t simply build a studio, register in the yellow pages or on the Internet, post some ads and start getting business. They simply won’t come.
Have you ever heard a song where somebody sounds like they are talking on the phone? How do they do that? Do they put a mic on the phone and have somebody call and record what comes out of the phone? I guess they could do it that way, but it’s actually a really simple effect done with EQ.
An Internet DAW can be used to create music without installing any hardware on your computer. Web based DAWs allow you to access your project wherever you go. Many are free, but all are simple and easy to use.
Some people think that it is difficult to work with loops in Pro Tools. It’s really quite simple if you know what you are doing and make sure to have the right buttons clicked. Check out the videos below to see how easy it really is.
Checkout this list of nearly 20 different professional DAWs with links to individual reviews and discussions of the good, bad and history of each.
This acoustic scenario was introduced in the book “Home Studio Setup”. This design is based on the ideal setup of the author’s project studio. The studio is based around one large room multi-purposed as a control room and studio. There is an attached isolation booth and machine closet
Learn how to build acoustic treatment that looks kind of like a mailbox. It is absorption and diffusion all wrapped into one little package. Watch and listen as Ben Harris from theDAWstudio.com shows you how they are made from start to finish.
If you have ever tried to record a band on a limited budget with poor results, take a look at this video. Here is an example of recording a group with a stereo mic setup. This is how some of the great recordings were done in the 50′s and 60′s. Why not use those techniques [...]
I was recently working on a piece of music with a slightly swung feel. As I added a loop for the breakdown, I noticed that the loop was cool, but was not swung like the song. After a few minutes of beat detective and elastic audio in Pro Tools I had a nice swingin’ loop locked in to the groove of my current song.