A home studio guide to great sound without breaking the bank

Sunday, October 6, 2013

Can Converters Make a Difference?

One of the most crucial pieces of equipment you will need in your home studio would be your recording interface. We gave some insight about what interfaces jobs primarily are in one of our earlier posts. Essentially the job of the interface is to communicate between the analog world and the digital world. The interface allows you to record sound and convert it to a digital medium that your computer can understand. This is done through the A/D...

Tuesday, June 18, 2013

What is the best microphone?

A mistake a lot of new aspiring engineers make is that they need the absolute best possible equipment to become the best enginee...

Saturday, June 8, 2013

MIDI Instruments

MIDI instruments have been around much longer than most people think. In fact, they have been around since 1983! MIDI has come a long way since then and can drastically enhance our home studios by adding a virtually endless palate of sounds and instruments to our work. Not only will they drastically increase your songwriting capabilities but they can save not only some space but also some cash in your pocket! MIDI instruments were founded on the basis of synthesizers. Essentially, digital synthesizers began using microprocessors that expanded...

Sunday, April 28, 2013

Avantone CV-12

Avantone is a professional microphone company that has been able to stand out in the market of microphones and I had the wonderful opportunity to try out the Avantone CV-12 recently! It should be noted that the microphone is named the CV-12, this is because the microphone was constructed somewhat emulate yet modernize the acclaimed AKG C-12!...

Friday, April 12, 2013

Analog vs. Digital Recording

            The music industry is currently going through a transition between analog and digital recordin...