Building a recording studio Tag

Using a Direct Box in your Home Recording Studio

This is a tutorial illustrating the use of direct box in a home recording application. I received an inquiry from a reader about issues on recording a digital piano. Below are the gears and accessories used: 1.) CLP-295GP Yamaha Clavinova digital piano …

How to build an analog recording studio WITHOUT computer or DAW

OK so solutions of using your own computer or laptop as a recording studio are now very common. What about building a home recording studio without the use of computer or DAW (Digital audio workstation)? In fact, this is the method used before DAW and …

Testing Room Acoustics and Analysis Tutorial for Home Recording Studio

One of the essentials in building a home recording studio is to test the room acoustics and analyze it for possible issues. This is a tutorial on how to do this procedure. Before moving forward below are the requirements before you will start analyzing …

USB vs Firewire audio interface- Select which one is best for you

OK supposing you now have a powerful desktop PC, Mac or Laptop that you plan to use for your home recordings. You are now deciding which type of audio interface to buy: USB or a Firewire audio interface? First you should know is that you cannot simply …

Adding Subwoofer to M-audio Studiophile BX5a using Laney AH200 as Sub

I observed that M-audio BX5a lack the deep bass needed to mix music genre that requires deep bass. Although M-audio Studiophile BX5a has a good and tight bass, it is still not enough for sub-bass mixing. I went to research how it is possible to add a s …