What does this article cover? • A 10-Step Guide to an affordable home studio • Tips on when to spend and when to skimp • Get professional-quality sounds without needing [...]
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1. Turning a monosynth into a polysynth While classic synths such as the Minimoog, SH-101 and Pro One are sought after for the warm, characterful analogue tones they generate, [...]
Up there with compression in its essential music production status, EQ (short for ‘equalisation’) is one of the most powerful effects in your mixing toolbox, enabling shaping of the frequency [...]
The first step to piecing together a studio is making a list of all the essential gear you’ll need. You’re likely to do loads of research on studio monitors, microphones, [...]
When planning to record any combination of multiple parallel instrumental and/or vocal parts, one of the first decisions to be made is whether to do it live or through overdubbing. [...]
1. Physicality and cost The first and most obvious difference between speakers and headphones is the absolute signal levels they each put out. Almost everything that makes monitors [...]
When it comes to crafting great mixes, you need your studio space to be as sonically neutral and ‘honest’ as possible, and that means taking control of reflections and standing [...]
Although it is entirely possible to produce tracks wholly ‘in the box’ these days, using nothing more than a DAW, an audio interface and software plugins, outboard (ie, hardware) signal [...]
If you’ve ever seen the inside of a high-end recording studio, you can’t help but have noticed the number and variety of monitor speakers mounted in the walls, on [...]
