Hi Gang, the other day I braved the wind and rain to make a little video about Home Recording Studio Design.
You will notice that there are no actual moving pictures in the video, but just my shaky voice recording on the Iphone telling you how I set up my home demo studio at the moment.
You’ll [...]

Affordable home recording can be a challenge in these days of $1000 sound cards and computers that can cost an arm and a leg. So today I set myself a $100 budget and set about finding out if you can really get started at this price point.
What I came up with was the Zoom H4 [...]

If your looking for a great home recording bundle then Reason is a good place to start your search.
This ultra affordable piece of software can be used on it’s own or in conjunction with pro tools as a plug-in making use of the rewire setting included.
Once you have Reason running as part of your home [...]

If you’re in the market for Home Studio Products, you really need to check out logic pro which I have pictured below.
I think that most people would say that pro tools is the more detailed piece of production software to base you home studio around, but logic has it’s place for the creative musician who [...]

Good home studio advice can be hard to come by with so many wannabe production experts out there; it can be confusing who to trust.
That’s exactly why we created our home recording mini course which you can grab for free on every page on this site.
When we put this document together we had one simple [...]

There are a few home recording essentials budding home producer must have to get started:
Songs – without something to record you’re not going to get very far!
Computer – you can use any PC or Mac from the last couple of years, the more ram the better to run plug-ins.
Software – if there’s one essential piece [...]

Home recording Garageband style is fast becoming my favorite way to quickly produce high quality tracks for myself and my clients that can be great for on-line promotion and free singles.
The reason that Garageband works so well is all about speed. I have started to notice recently that a pro tools project never take less [...]

If you’re looking for the ultimate portable home recording experience then you might consider something like the little studio below.
Obviously this is quite a retro tape based system but they come in all shapes and sized these days, which means you can keep your recording ultra portable and still have that high quality digital sound [...]

The music doctor mixing and mastering is a  great read for any budding home producers out there.
It’s not a ground breaking work but if your still confused about how to get a good mix on a budget then this book is going to be a good buy for you.
I have to say that my favourite [...]

photo credit: √oхέƒx™ Mastering music at home can be good if you want to save on the $1000s it costs to employ a professional Mastering engineer. These guys consider themselves to be scientists and the most respected of them can set you back more than the cost of your entire recording!
That being said I would [...]