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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]