Home Recording Tips
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When I was young I was constantly looking for nice info about home recording, tips to guide me in the road. Unfortunately, in that time (talking about ten years ago) the internet was young, and it was barely growing. So I will try to give you a small introduction about, I want to show you in this section. I guess that you as the reader are hoping to find the Holy Grail for your home recording studio. I can’t tell you will find every answer, but I will try to show you what I know.
By the moment, I will give you a little tour about the most common problems in home recording studios.
Have you ever asked yourself why building a home recording studio? No matter whether you are an amateur musician or building an empire of recording studios in your house, either way it’s important to know about the details of recording sounds.
Generally, recording problems are due to three mayor factors: The equipment, the recording engineer and the room.
EQUIPMENT
When I started my very first recording studio, all recordings were amazingly awful. And this was because the lame quality of my equipment. I had cheap microphones, and no preamp. In addition, I was using a cheap PC sound card, and the guitar was connected directly from the amplified to the PC inlet of the sound card. Don’t take me wrong, I was seventeen years old, and my resources were low.
I hope you got the idea because I want you to put what I am about to tell you in your head: “Cheap is not good when it comes to recording studios”. My scenario changed when I bought my first decent microphone, and my first sound card. I spent all my savings on them but it really worth the price.
Recording equipment has a quality factor, and this factor depends on the internal components of the equipment, and the quality of the design. The better they are the expensive they are.
RECORDING ROOM
The room could be the most important factor of a recording studio. The room isolates the sound and makes the audio sound good. If you are planning to do all professionals, I recommend setting up a decent recording room. There are good books out there. I just got one of them: Home Recording Studio - Build It Like the Pros
Having a good room avoids many problems such as comb-filtering and missing frequencies that will cause trouble during the mixing process.
THE RECORDING ENGINEER
Well, this is you. Even if you are not a real engineer, the one that handles all the recording process is the recording engineer.The lack of knowledge could be the source of a dreadful recording. A good example of bad recording is doing it in the same room where the monitors are while they are on, or recording without headphones.
So if you do not know anything about recording, I recommend you reading about it. Well, you are doing it now right? Besides of aboutmidi.com, there are many good resources out there. I.e the recording forum, and many good books. Try some of the articles listed above.
