There are many ways for you to create some live sound in your home, especially if you are thinking of establishing your own recording studio right inside your room, your recreational room, or even your garage. While you can make use of very professional speakers, mixers, and the best sound source, you can also add on to these a condenser microphone. This type of microphone is very effective in producing live sounds because it is very sensitive to even the tiniest sound that may not even be audible to the human ear. Because of this, this microphone is able to work even if you are working at the lowest volume.

There are a number of things that you need to know about a condenser microphone, so that you will also understand how it is able to give you the live sound that you want in your home. You have to know that this kind of microphone uses a capacitor. Although all microphones are known to work under the basic principle of having a diaphragm that receives music or audio and then converts this into an electrical signal, with the condenser mics, the diaphragm is placed in such a manner that it also acts as the capacitor. With this, the space between the plates inside the microphone is altered by the vibrations that are generated through the diaphragm. As a result, an Continue Reading...

More and more People are building home recording studios because of the simplicity involved in recording music today. All it takes is a common home computer rigged up with a few audio hardware accessories and you’ve got a project sound studio worthy enough to create a demo tape, or independent music release.

Managing your home recording studio to be functional and bug free can be difficult. So here are a few tips for keeping your studio in good order and being ready for common problems.

• Always save back up files I can’t stress this enough its a very basic rule, but hard drives are known to crash for no reason, and with no notice, so why take the chance.

• Listen to your track on several different stereos and in various environments, then go back to your studio and make any final adjustments to the song. It may sound good in the recording studio and then like crap in your car stereo, or portable mp3 player.

• Avoid distractions like a telephone or television in your work environment.

• If you’ve hit that frustrated point with software, always check the help option in the program it may seem simple but 9/10 it will solve your problem. If this doesn’t Continue Reading...

1. Your equalizer or spectrum meter are your best friend when it comes to producing a song. If you don’t have a spectrum meter plug-in you can cross reference your song by playing it in any music program like winamp http://www.winamp.com By analyzing the EQ and its responses. Find the frequency range that is not jumping very high and fill it with sounds of the appropriate frequency. You should also use your eq to pump these missing frequencies if they are coming in too low.

2. Do not mud up your song by putting to many sounds of the same frequency range this will not produce a desirable effect, keep your song clean sounding. Take an overview of your song and what you are using to fill these specific frequency ranges. Get rid of any sounds that are causing complications in the mix they will only make it sound worse.

3. Clearly label all of your sounds, FX, and anything that you can about the song you are writing because chances are you’ll eventually come back to it without a clue of where you left off. If you work on one song at a time sticky notes and/or masking tape for your mixer and monitor will do the trick quite nicely.

4. Save your song as new versions, as it progresses, so that if it starts sounding worse than the previous work you can go back to its basic structure and re-write it.

5. Hearing the same riffs over and over can start to numb your ears of its catchy sound. Go back to what you are working on after a nights sleep its always better to have a listen with fresh ears.

6. Keep the volume at a reasonable level while you are working in your studio and only turn it up once and a while. This will help yourself from going deaf and will help Continue Reading...