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  • Listening To Your Home Recordings Using Monitors
    Monitors are basically speakers that you use when mixing down, also known as 'studio monitors'.

    Studio monitors are designed to create an accurate audio image of your track, with no unnatural emphasis of particular frequencies, whereas hi-fi speakers are designed to make all audio material sound quite pleasing to the ear...
  • Home Recording Guitar Using A Compressor
    A compressor is a device that reduces (compresses) the dynamic range in a sound sources softest point to its loudest point to smooth the output, and can bring your audio material up to spec with professional recordings. An instrument that goes from very quiet and very loud over the course of a song can be difficult to record and mix. Either the quiet parts get lost or the loud sections overload the recording.
  • Home Recording Guitar - Why You Need A Mic Pre-Amp
    The signal that a microphone picks up is actually very low, and needs to be boosted for it to be used with your recording device. This is exactly what a mic-preamp does; it boosts the signal to a level that is useable for recording.
  • Using An Isolation Box When Recording Guitar
    Most guitarists know that to hit the “sweet” spot of your amplifier it has to be a fairly high volume, but the question is; how do you achieve those high studio volumes when you’re living in a house with other people or in an apartment block?

    Well, there are a few different ways...
  • The Art Of Microphone Placement When Recording Guitar
    Like any other piece of kit, the same microphone can give tremendously different results depending on how it is used. To get the sound you are looking for takes a bit of expertise and a lot of experimenting. Even the best microphones available can sound “boomy” and unusable if not used correctly.

    So, is microphone placement an art or a science? Well, it’s a little of both, but often just a matter of experimenting until you hear something you like.
  • What Are Microphone Polar Patterns?
    Polar Patterns describe the way in which a microphone picks up the sound from around it. Some microphones are directional and only pick up from a particular direction whereas others will pick up from all around.

    There are essentially five main polar responses or pick-up patterns, these are:

    Cardioid, hyper cardioid, Shotgun, omni directional, figure 8. What do all these mean? That's what we'll be discussing.
  • What Microphones Should You Use For Home Recording Guitar
    There are a lot of things to consider when it comes to the sound you get from your microphone, not only in terms of price and quality, but also where you actually place the mic in relation to your amplifier. That's what we'll be discussing today.
  • How To Record Guitar At Home Using Indirect Recording
    Indirect recording is what I would call the “old school” method of actually plugging into a real guitar amplifier, and using a microphone to record the sound. Minimally this method requires an amplifier, microphone, mic-preamp and a converter. However, a whole heap of other units can be added, for example eq’s, mixers, compressors etc.
  • How To Record Guitar At Home Using Direct Recording
    Recording directly basically involves plugging into some sort of interface or desktop unit that gets your guitar into the computer using a USB or Firewire cable.

    From then on in, everything such as speaker simulation, amp modeling, eq’s, effects, compressors is entirely software based in some sort of audio program.
  • How To Record Guitar At Home, No Matter What Your Budget
    Discover everything you need to turn your room into a complete home recording studio.

    No matter what your budget, there's always a way! With today’s technology there are several methods of recording at your disposal. Which works best? Well that's what we'll be discussing.
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