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Picture of a basic home studio deskBasic 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 ...

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[caption id="attachment_20" align="alignright" width="343" caption="Pic by Estudo caseiro"]Home studio build pic[/caption] 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 ...

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The home recording video below is definitely one of my favorites. It goes into every aspect of your home studio and how to get the best out of each part. You really need to have this base level knowledge before you start your recording as many people buy some expensive equipment then wade straight in to ...

2009-06-12 14:31:34

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Here are just a few of my mastering music fundamentals:

  1. Listeners perceive louder music to be better music, so you want to use compression and limiting to make your tracks really punch through the speakers.
  2. All tracks on your album should be a good relative level to each other. You can make acoustic tracks really loud with mastering, but if they are way louder than your heaviest rock songs then all the power of those rocking tracks will be lost.

Make sure you check your mastering on all sort of speaker set ups. Most listeners don’t spend money on nice speakers so make sure your mix still works on a tinny laptop.

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