- Getting Started With Home Recording
- Getting Started With MIDI Production
- My Electric Guitar Secret Weapon
- 10 Things Every Band Should Know Before Recording
- Do I Need A High End Mic Preamp?
- Home Recording Soundcard Wizard
- Electric Guitar Microphone Shootout
Getting Started With Home Recording
Are you new to recording and not exactly sure what gear you need? RecordingReview.com specializes in helping beginners jump into the world of recording. There are about 2,000 traps that can easily waste thousands of hours of your time. Recording Review focuses on giving you the info you need to make the right decisions for you. This is what the Getting Started With Home Recording Guide is all about.
Getting Started With MIDI Production
MIDI production is not just for techno and dance music anymore. The use of MIDI has become an integral part of the recording process in rock, metal, and even country. In fact the only genre's of music that don't utilize MIDI that often are Folk and Bluegrass!
With that said, MIDI can be confusing at first. MIDI brings up a big, new list of definitions to learn and MIDI just seems to play by a different set of rules than convention computer recording. Luckily, I've created the Getting Started With MIDI Sequencing Guide to help you burst through the learning curve and reap the benefits of synths, samples, and MIDI production.
My Electric Guitar Secret Weapon
For a rock guitar player, there is something about a killer distorted guitar sound that becomes a passion, or maybe even an addition. Of guitar, many beginners in the home recording world have trouble with recording electric guitars. In this member only guide, I'll talk about my secret weapon for recording huge electric guitars.
10 Things Every Band Should Know Before Recording
Before any band walks into a recording studio, they had better prepare themselves. There is a lot to learn about the recording process, but taking a few minutes to read this guy could save you thousands of bucks!!
10 Things Every Band Should Know Before Recording is my attempt to get you up to speed on the process of recording extremely quickly! If we can immediately rule out beginner mistakes and make sure you have a clear idea on how the process REALLY works, the odds of your next recording being successful are improved immensely.
Do I Need A High End Mic Preamp?
Don't let peer pressure convince you that you need to dump thousands of dollars into a high end microphone preamp. Let your ears decide! Maybe after listening to this preamp shootout, you can decide if the subtle change in character offered by a preamps is going to be worth the cash.
Take a listen to my Preamp Shootout. With preamps such as API, Great River, Vintech (Neve 1272 clone), Presonus M80, and Mackie 1604 you can listen to the difference between super expensive and super cheap preamps and decide for yourself if you want to drop the cash on a preamp yet or not.
Home Recording Soundcard Wizard
The hardest part to choosing the initial gear to get started recording at home is the audio interface / soundcard (same thing). It used to take hours and hours and hours of research to figure out the features you needed. Then it took hours and hours and hours to figure out which brand of audio interface was most reliable. Of course, then, someone would say that X brand is way better than Y brand (which is usually a total lie!). It was a mess!
Now, choosing an audio interface is much simpler. Just go through the Home Recording Soundcard Wizard. It'll ask you 10 questions and spit out the audio interfaces that meet your needs in order of price. You immediately know which audio interfaces work for you. Then it's just an issue of choosing the most reliable audio interface that meets your budget. It's easy!
Electric Guitar Microphone Shootout
Do you really need a super high end microphone to get great sounding electric guitars? Here is a shootout I put together with the Royer R121 ribbon microphone, Shure SM 57, Audio Technica AT4033, Sennheiser MD 421, and Soundelux U99.
CD Mastering
One of the most misunderstood subjects in the world of home recording is the topic of mastering. Few people understand what mastering is or what it does. In fact, a lot of beginners mix up audio mastering and audio mixing, which are two completley different parts of the equation.
Austin Recording Studio
For anyone interested in doing any recording in the Austin, Texas region, I'd highly recommend that you check out my friend, Mark Warren, and his Austin recording studio, 5AM Studios. Mark has some KILLER gear and great sounding rooms. I wish I had my teleporter, I'd use his recording studio all the time.
Home Recording News
I've created a new site called NoiseMakerNews.com. The concept is very much like all the other social bookmarking sites out there, but this one is specifically tailored to musicians. Where else are you going to find a social bookmarking site that has an “acoustics” or “guitar pedals” category? So if you get time, check out NoiseMakerNews.com for Home Recording News and every other musician news for that matter.
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Recording Reviews
Talking about recording is great. However, one thing the internet world is not so good at when it comes to helping people get better at audio engineering is the overemphasis of words. Without a doubt, the best way to get better at your recordings is have them reviewed by experts, peers, and everyone in between.
So, simply Join Recording Review today and post a new song / mix you are working. We'll give you real world advice to drastically improve your music recordings. I love the Recording Review section because it focuses on EXACTLY what the problems are on your mix. It's common for a beginner to say “I'm not happy with the way my mixes are turning out” and a typical, generic response is “Buy better preamps or better mics!”.
Well, that's a stupid way of solving a problem. There is no use guessing with thousands of dollars in equipment when the problem may be the way you are approaching your mix. Maybe you just need to move your studio monitors? Maybe you are recording substandard musicians? Recording Reviews is the fastest way to improve your recordings!
