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January 23rd, 2010 | Posted by admin

Economic trends means there may be a number of students out there who are weighing options after graduation. Is college an option? Or are there other ways to get into the music recording business?

Working in the music recording industry means a chance to work with top recording artists and musicians. There are many different careers in the industry. Music producers guide the shape of sound, while a sound engineer captures sound.

The music business is trending towards moving online, so it is really important to learn as much about the music recording side of the business as you can. Digital music distribution over the Internet has really changed the landscape of the music business. Music technology has also grown quite a bit. Today’s musicians must have knowledge about technology — some of which is software. The virtual world means having to be famaliar with software, plus there is still some hardware based technologies.

Donny Baker is a music producer and studio engineer at Elephant Symphony in Glendale, California says he likes teaching via the mentor approach because once his students graduate, they are engineers. Technology is constantly changing but in this industry it is changing backwards.

Baker’s mentor approach works, and the best part is that you’ll get a real world learning experience in a New York music recording school or one in Los Angeles.  Read more...

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January 21st, 2010 | Posted by admin

Speed, power, and storage capacity that can rival some of the top desk top models, throw in the portability factor and it’s a no-brainer. You don’t need a big desk top anymore to have a powerful computer to run your home recording studio.

Laptops in general have become very powerful in the last couple years and now there are a few models that are designed specifically for us music makers. This also means your hardware compatibility headaches and problems are over.

What made this change-over so appealing to me at first was the portability of it all as I travel a bit and the idea of sitting on a plane or hotel and working on a song’s arrangement or mix was exiting.

You can also take your home studio to another home or even pro studio and integrate your project into their set up or simply transfer your tracks. Having this option has saved me lots of time and money as well as improving on some of the quality of some tracking I wasn’t able to do at home. After which, you simply pack up your laptop and go plug it back into your own home studio with all those new tracks to play around with.

Which laptop?
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January 18th, 2010 | Posted by admin

There are various gear for recording music. One type of gear operates and affects the ultimate music quality in one way, and the other in a completely different way. To create and compose excellent music with high quality receptive sound, you need to know the details of these various types of gear.

Multitrack recorders can be analog cassette tapes. It can record multiple tracks at a very limited amount of space and number of possible tracks. These are usually the cheapest multitrack recorders. Another is the Digital tape. These are removable digital tapes similar to Zip and Jazz Drives. Then there is the Hard Disk. The multitracker is a form of a hard drive of a computer, which will enable you to store much more work than a tape. Some hard drives can also be upgraded at memory and they are removable.

Another is the Removable Disk. They are removable analog disks that can store more information than cassettes. The disk is usually specific to the manufacturer. The other is the CD, which includes TASCAM CC 22MKIII, a Pro CD recorder with MP3 playback and ROLAND CD 2, an audio recorder that can record sound onto Compact Flash and CD burner.

Microphone is the most important gear for recoding music. The utility value of your microphone depends on two factors, one is the quality and the other is the consistency. Consistency is important, as psychological factors are so great in the perception of sound and because eventual usages of your sound resources may result in arbitrary segments played in juxtaposition.  Read more...

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January 17th, 2010 | Posted by admin

Brighton has always been a hot spot for musicians so what better place to find a recording studio to make your demo. When searching for a recording studios, make sure you hear examples that are reflective of the music style you are after!

 

A quick look at four studios in Brighton

 

http://www.applebeam.com/

 

Apple Beam studios have the advantage of being a small collective of talented producers, therefore offering more specific music production and not being a ‘jack of all trades’ type outfit!

 

The website offers a wealth of information that is clear and informative. You can listen to plenty of audio examples on the site and watch videos too!

 

theloophole.co.uk

 

Open since 1988, this recording studio has seen many clients come and go. The studio has a live room and a piano and for all of you that lurve that analogue sound, they do that too! The website is clean and clear, although there is no audio examples which I find useful if choosing a studio.

 

churchroad.net

 

Claiming to be one of Brighton’s finest, this studio certainly has plenty of gear and their studio floor can comfortably record up to 10 musicians. They use Apogee Rosetta digital converters, the best available, which should do the job nicely!

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January 16th, 2010 | Posted by admin

A lot of musicians have started their recording careers from simple beginnings, ie, recording in their basements, a spare room or a friend’s garage. This is because recording in a professional studio is very costly, and since it will take a long time to perfect that particular cut, recording costs will just be too much. For bands who are just hoping to get the attention of potential record producers, spending a lot on renting studios will not seem like an economically viable option. Hence, most start-up bands turn to making a home studio to cut costs. It saves precious dollars and even makes the experience much more fun.

Basic Home Studio Costs

It takes triple the effort to record in your home studio: remember that you are not only a musician now; you’re also the producer of the record and the sound engineer, too. This requires some technical knowledge on both hardware and software necessary to recording. Some of the things you need to know are the tools and tricks available to you that can help you produce a better-sounding record. If you are not yet confident with your technical capabilities, better do your research first on the many things you need to know such as what type of recorder to use, what software goes best with your hardware, how to record vocals and other instruments, and how to cut, edit and mix tracks. Of course, it goes without saying that there will be some money involved here so you also need to outline your resource plan – do you buy the things you need, borrow them, or rent them? You can also find a friend who understands these things and is willing to lend a helping hand for free. Once you have these things sorted out, have comfort in the fact that you can record any kind of music with your very own home studio.  Read more...

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