The best miking bass guitar method I have found for home recordings is to run two signals into the recorder.
The first will be your standard amp and microphone set up using a nice base amp and mic positioned wherever you get the best sound in your situation.
The second input will be coming directly from the [...]

Miking drum set techniques can vary wildly from producer to producer, but there are a couple of rules to always keep in mind when setting up your drum set recording.
The first thing is that contrary to popular belief, the fewer mics the better. (Within Reason.) This is a good idea because the more microphones you [...]

Stereo Microphone Techniques and the The Stereo LP record were 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 the 1930’s, the [...]

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 [...]