Pro Tools Studio from Digidesign is the industry standard audio creation and production software package and is used in virtually all professional recording studios worldwide. It has everything you need to make the perfect recording every time and it’s easy to learn.
Pro Tools 8 has a modern user friendly, colourful interface and allows you to [...]

A far cry from today’s stereo sound cards the Stereo LP record was first introduced in 1957 and brought along with it a whole new home music listening experience. Although stereo sound reproduction had been experimented with in the early part of the 1900’s, and used in motion pictures such as Disney’s Fantasia in [...]

You’ve finished recording your first album but it still need Audio Mastering Software to complete the job. Who does it and what exactly does this entail? Most musicians will pass this final stage of production to an audio engineer or mastering technician.
Mastering is the final creative step in the process and gives clarity, continuity, depth [...]

With the advent of cheap Sound Mixing Software, just about anyone can record a song and so the competition has intensified dramatically.
Spending time mixing a song is essential if you want it to get noticed. It’s now possible for amateurs to produce decent music with a computer, sound card and sound modules.
Every song is different [...]

Songwriting Help: Originality is the keyword here. Listeners want to hear something that’s different. Try utilising a common theme, but from a different perspective.
Songwriting Help - Selecting the theme
Originality is the keyword here. Listeners want to hear something that’s different. Try utilising a common theme, but from a different perspective.
Themes that work well are those [...]

The Pictures of Microphones like Rode Mic & Samson Mic are provided by the wonderful people at Flickr. There are many different microphones on the market but they fall into one of two main categories; condenser or dynamic microphones.
Condenser Mics
Condenser microphones operate either by way of a battery or by means of an external power [...]

The good news is it isn’t hard to build a home recording studio and setting it up doesn’t require vast technical knowledge. Myths abound about the difficulties of creating home recordings, but with open source software and a bit of hard work, you can come up with a decent environment in which to produce your [...]

Basic home studio design: You’ve made the decision to produce your own music, but where do you start? One option is to go to the nearest professional recording studio, however with fees starting at $100 per hour; this can turn out to be prohibitively expensive.
A far better way is to create your own personal basic [...]