North East Community Band

December 13th, 2009 | Posted by admin

You have the studio set up where the musicians will create their magic, but the control room – where the recording will take place – is still bare. This is the music studio equipment you need: Microphone Of all the music studio equipment you will buy, the microphones will be one of your most important investments. The microphone converts sound into an electrical signal, and poor quality microphones will make it much more difficult to produce high-quality sound. Mixing console (also soundboard or audio mixer) This is an electronic device used to combine (or mix), route, and change the level, tone quality and dynamics of audio signals. Depending on the type of console you pick, you can also mix analogue or digital signals. One application for this piece of music studio equipment is to combine the signals from two separate microphones – e. g. from two vocalists – to be heard through one speaker. Studio (or reference) monitors These monitors are in effect loudspeakers which are specifically designed for application in recording, film, television and radio studios. These speakers are designed to give an accurate reproduction of the qualities of the audio that is produced in the studio. In other words, the frequency of the sound is not manipulated by the monitors and no distortion takes place. As a result, these monitors are more robust (and expensive) than home hi-fi speakers, as they have to cope with high volumes and sudden sound bursts that may happen in the studio. Digital audio workstation (DAW) This workstation is an electronic system designed to record, edit and play back digital audio. With this piece of music studio equipment, recorded sounds can be freely manipulated, edited and played back. The DAW can also be used to convert signals from analogue to digital and vice versa.

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December 13th, 2009 | Posted by admin

With Christmas still a warm memory, there’s all this new stuff in your life; your friends and family have showered you with the latest gadgets and gizmos.  Now what are you going to do with all these new toys?  Before you get too far into the manuals, and before you throw out the old stuff, take an inventory of what you have and what replaces what.  Before you pile up the old TV with this week’s trash, consider what can be done with that still usable item.  First, may I suggest you consider donating some of your replaced items to charity; the world has so many people in it that have a lot less than you do, so consider sharing some of it.  If it still works, it’s donatable.  If you just can’t part with it, then consider adding it to your cellar work area or the sun porch.  You don’t need to get another cable box for it if you’re on cable, just split the signal out from another feeder line as it comes out of the wall and you should have limited control over the channels.  I put the old, smaller TV in the kitchen for those cooking channels and comedy shows for while you prepare and clean up, all I did was split the signal before it enters the TV; that way I see the same thing in the living room and kitchen, and still have full access to all the channels, as long as both rooms want to watch the same thing.  If you got a new home entertainment system, you can move the older one downstairs into the cellar and hook up some outside speakers for those Summer parties, or perhaps up into the kid’s room for their own enjoyment.

Did you pick up a new MP3 player or iPod?  There’s a little device that I’ve found useful for these personal audio players, and it’s a little transmitter that plugs into the headphone jack, runs on AAA batteries and transmits your signal to an FM frequency on the radio.  Very cool, and it works great in the car too.  If the device stores files on a smart card or secure digital device or other media, keep an eye on the post-holiday sales, you may be able to double or triple your storage space for a low cost; if your device has removable media, it should be able to handle the biggest size available in that storage media type.  Also a little patch cord from your player headphone jack to the stereo input on your home entertainment system will have you rocking to your portable MP3s in the comfort of your own living room.  Read more...

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