| Home recording and general music post from the archived Yabb Recording Website Message Board. Some of the info here may be outdated but many of the audio recording and home studio tips are still good. Note: The only tags I made and attempt to convert are italics, bold, center and underline. So if you see some gibberish surrounded by brackets, just ignore it.
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Febuary 2001 Yabb Message Board Archive
Subject: inquiring reading material
by rbstrat | 03/03/01 at 15:25:58
Hello, I'm a guitar player interested in home recording/studio I have no gear as of yet,just starting out. I would appreciate any recommended reading on the subject from different gear to mixing techniques, software or anything that would put you on the right path....Thanks
Subject: Re: inquiring reading material
by Jim | 03/03/01 at 20:53:00
If you are new to the world recording then you have found the right place. There is a book called Using your Portable Studio that is really good (has alot of tutorial stuff in it)and also Billboard has one called Home Recording that is very basic, but also pretty good.
I recommend if you are starting to go inexpensive until you gain some experience. Tascam's 424MKIII Portastudio is an awesome choice. You can generally find it for $399 almost anywhere ($499 list). Also Tascam has great video tutorials that feature this model. These tutorials take you completely through the who process and even give you tips on how to maximize you investment.
Some other places to visit online would be Recording Engineers Quarterly, just follow the links on this site. Here you can get an free online subscription and passwords into the article archives and a free online Pro Audio course. The Articles on this site have been invaluable and I have yet to see better and more detailed articles than here.
I am sure others will respond to your question here and give you a variety of ideas, but for less that $600 you can have your studio up and running and it just goes up from there!;D
Subject: Re: inquiring reading material
by old_dan | 03/03/01 at 22:35:33
Jim knows what he's talking about :)
Dan Haas has a real good article here:
http://www.recordingwebsite.com/articles/homerec.html
and I second the recommendation for Using Your Portable Studio. Here's a link to Amazon for you:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0825614376/therecordingwebs
The three things you will need to really get a handle on are eq, reverb and panning. You use the panning control to set things from left to right, reverb to set things front to back and eq to separate instruments.
eq is the hardest to master so here are a couple of really good articles. How to Make Your Home Recordings Sound Professional by Bob Dennis
http://www.recordingwebsite.com/articles/htmyhrp.html
and EQ by Devin Devore
http://www.trinitysoundcompany.com/eq.html
Take care,
Dan