DIY Music Production
Written by Mick LLaleBeoufey on Monday, November 30th, 2009 in Video.
Why spend money to do the recording at the professional studio when you can do it at home? Are you able to produce a high quality work when the professional studio charge you hourly rate? How wonderful if you can do the recording at home anytime you like? Let’s see how can this occur. It isn’t as difficult as you believed.
Today’s recording relied heavily on the computer software ; therefore, you have to have an honest PC to help you. If you are not a tech savvy, get the computer support consultant to wire up everything for you properly. The computer should equip with a sound card with midi in / out port.
Music modifying software or some call music sequencer is an absolute must. There are number of such products in the market. For example, Acid and Cinescore from Sony and Sonar home studio from Cakewalk.
For the input device, you can buy a midi input device such as electronic keyboard or electone if you’ve got the budget. Otherwise, a standard computer keyboard can also do the same thing but it is rather tedious. BTW, for a newb, I want to recommend a product call Prodikeys by Creative Technology. Prodikeys is the mix of music keyboard ( with only 37 keys ) and computer keyboard.
It is advisable for you to have a fairly good mic. The ordinary mic that comes with the computer isn’t OK for sound recording purposes. Ask the audio shop to suggest one which is frequently used for singing purpose. Having said that, you need not have a sound proof environment but do your recording in a room which is isolated in order to keep the unwanted noise to minimum.
Once the infrastructure is up, you’ll need to familiarize yourself with the music modifying software before everything else. Don’t start to work out how to use the software only when you’re into the particular music production. Reason being, learning to use the software can be time intensive. The disappointment in the learning process may kill your talent at that point.
There are some crucial things to note when you plan for your music arrangement. As further amendment and enhancement will surely be carried out by the recording company, don’t make your music too complicated. It is more critical that you’re able to show the uniqueness and the feel of your music. Your music must be ready to read and hence understood by the music producers.
Enjoy your recording.
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