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Readers' Letters: A soft vocal booth - it's the next big thing in recording! , and more...

"Vocal booths are commonly constructed with four sides and a ceiling. And a floor of course. But why does a vocal booth need sides at all?" Read more...

"Vocal booths are commonly constructed with four sides and a ceiling. And a floor of course. But why does a vocal booth need sides at all?"

This particular song 'When I See Her' was recorded with the software Adoboe Audiotion 3.o....

Step 1. I wrote the song on my keyboard an old Roland E15 that I used as a MIDI keyboard....

I use a MXL 9000 condensor mic on vocals and lead guitar. Shure SM 57 for other instruments and direct box on the bass....

I START ALL MY TRACKS WITH A VIBE ENERGY THAT MAKE PEOPLE GO NUTS!....

For song titled 'NAUGHTY ROCK' BRIAN G featuring Naughty Bird....

Beyond the Faulkner phased array, the Record-Producer.com Quad could prove to be the ultimate microphone technique for recording the orchestra...

Blindswitch - New York City Metro Area's most promising up and coming 'power pop' rock band - is here!...

"Record-Producer.com's recent blind test of three microphone preamplifiers produced some interesting comments. Now you can find out which models they are, and which one is the dodo bird."

EQUIPMENT - A Yamaha Portable Grand DGX-520 is the Keyboard and a Yamaha DD-55 Digital Percussion provides the main rhythm. The keyboard signal is fed to a Behringer Ultra_Graph Pro GEQ3102 Ultra musical 31 Band Stereo Graphic Equalizer. The equalizer output is then fed to a Zoom Corporation’s RFX-1000 Digital Reverb and Multi Effects. The signals from the SHURE RS130 Microphones via an Ibanez Analog Delay AD100, the Keyboard and Drums are fed to a Lexicon Omega Studio. Desktop Recording Software used are Cube Base, Logic Platinium 5.1.3 and for final Mixing, Mastering and Burning of the CD, MAGIC Audio and Midi Studio Delux. A Yamaha AW16G is available to add Vocals and produce a demo mix of the tracks....

EQUIPMENT - A Yamaha Portable Grand DGX-520 is the Keyboard and a Yamaha DD-55 Digital Percussion provides the main rhythm. The keyboard signal is fed to a Behringer Ultra_Graph Pro GEQ3102 Ultra musical 31 Band Stereo Graphic Equalizer. The equalizer output is then fed to a Zoom Corporation’s RFX-1000 Digital Reverb and Multi Effects. The signals from the SHURE RS130 Microphones via an Ibanez Analog Delay AD100, the Keyboard and Drums are fed to a Lexicon Omega Studio. Desktop Recording Software used are Cube Base, Logic Platinium 5.1.3 and for final Mixing, Mastering and Burning of the CD, MAGIC Audio and Midi Studio Delux. A Yamaha AW16G is available to add Vocals and produce a demo mix of the tracks....

'Laids Crétins des Alpes' are Frenchs and it means 'The Ugly Morrons from the Alps' ...!!! It's a 'moronic made-punk songs', humoristics lyrics in south-french, with fresh rock music !

Protools m-audio 8 channel interface. Yamaha monitors. An inexpensive yamaha key board PSR-540....

RP reader Ronald Jeff is on a mission to bring back music that really can change the world. You could join him...

The basic Melody or Rhythm track is laid down using a metronome click and the instrument or rhythm upon which the inspiration for the composition was based. Then the Musical Rhythm track is put down with the chord structure using a piano, guitar or brass...

The Police hit interpretation recorded over last weekend in my bedroom. I play all instruments and sing as well (wasn't really warmed-up so forgive intonation problems)

You could spend $40,000 building a studio and lose it all. Or you could get that money back. Which would you prefer?

Hey everyone i make all of my music on the computer at home my style is hardstyle i almost make a song a day i have been doin that for about 3 years im only 16 and ill continue to make more. I allready sell my music on two sites the 1st site is http://www.beatsdigital.com/index.php and the second site is......

This song started out as 1-2-1-0 which is my planned retirement date. As it came together, I changed the title to

The Focusrite ISA One certainly has an excellent pedigree. Its circuitry is derived from the Focusrite Forte mixing console, designed by the legendary Rupert Neve. Neve’s designs almost define audio electronics. So if the ISA One has a little piece of Rupert Neve inside, you can expect its sound quality to be impeccable.

Factoids: Pop-rock album by Barcelona-based Sunstation, a 4-piece rock band led by Canadian singer-songwriter Cece Gianotti....

This song was recorded at 2 home studios and was worked and reworked over the course of 9 months. It started in my very small (it fits under my desk, as my apartment is very small) home studio using ACID pro 6.0 as the software....

It is time we all realize that unless we learn to love each other the world we live in cannot really enjoy or benefit from the progress we create....

Basically, just an experiment recording with a newly purchased Zoom MRS1608CD multi-track unit. Guitars 1 & 2 are my old Kaman Applause Accoustic/electric in open D tuning....

18 SM57's on the drums, two PG-81's on the cymbals, two mics on the guitar, one directl line plus a 57 on the bass guitar....

French punk band Laids Cretins des Alpes show not only that there can be humor in music, but that there can be punk bands in France.

Blindswitch - New York City Metro Area's most promising up and coming 'power pop' rock band - is here!...

Blindswitch - New York City Metro Area's most promising up and coming "power pop" rock band - is here!

'Chase My Blues Away' was first written in 1979 when inflation was rampant, unemployment rates were high and stock market slides were common. Guess what? It's happening again in 2008!...

EQUIPMENT - A Yamaha Portable Grand DGX-520 is the Keyboard and a Yamaha DD-55 Digital Percussion provides the main rhythm. The keyboard signal is fed to a Behringer Ultra_Graph Pro GEQ3102 Ultra musical 31 Band Stereo Graphic Equalizer. The equalizer output is then fed to a Zoom Corporation’s RFX-1000 Digital Reverb and Multi Effects. The signals from the SHURE RS130 Microphones via an Ibanez Analog Delay AD100, the Keyboard and Drums are fed to a Lexicon Omega Studio. Desktop Recording Software used are Cube Base, Logic Platinium 5.1.3 and for final Mixing, Mastering and Burning of the CD, MAGIC Audio and Midi Studio Delux. A Yamaha AW16G is available to add Vocals and produce a demo mix of the tracks....

Can you save money by buying B-stock equipment, or is it a false economy?

Want to use samples like the Hip Hop elite but can't afford clearance? Blame this Irish guy - it's all his fault!

I used a standard PC with mostly powercore and universal audio plugins. I used Nuendo as my recording platform. I used Morley 3A as well as Neuman U87 mics to record....

This song 'Blusie Susie', for lack of a better name, I recorded a couple years ago now, I guess. At tht time I was using Cool Edit Version 2 for a recording medium. I always do my recording on my computer using line in. I now use Adobe Audition 3.

Here's an experiment. Take out your axe. Your electric guitar, I mean. Plug it into your fiercest, most shredding amplifier, preferably through your favorite 'Ghost of Jimi' distortion pedal too. Now play a six-string chord. G will do, F will be nice if you're up to it. Arrrgggghhhh!!!!!!

How The Track is Recorded....

Jingle Junkie is part of a Christmas Album in progress. It was recorded using Midi processing through a Behringer 900 mixer with Alesis Midiverb II, dbx Project 1 Compressor/gate, BBE Sonic Maximizer and Aphex Aural Exciter into a vintage Alesis Blackface ADAT and then mixed into computer using Cool Edit. The Keyboard is a Korg Triton Pro with a Roland Sound Canvas module on the side for the drums and other rhythm effects. Monitor speakers are the Alesis Model One Active MK2....

If it's good enough for The Beatles, then it's good enough for... well, Record-Producer.com. We tell you what it's like to record there.

The idea behind PHWG is a one-man orchestra with a guitar, computer, and a dream to make the music that I love. My influences are Pink Floyd, Radiohead, Steve Vai, Marty Friedman, Jean Michelle Jarre, Beethoven and Bach....

hi our name is the Misrtyllions namely blessed and radikal we are a group off two persons (male) we have being doing our music for the pass seven years we make our own beats weather sometime we work with a band we do drum machines beat and live beats we write our own music and do them we records at our own studio which we created we have been doing recording in our own studio for the pass two and a half years even though we records songs as long as four years ago but not on our own...

This process started in my small home studio; vocal performance done by me and my friends from ghana! a RodeNT 1000 microphone combine with an Art tube preamp, that runs through my 12 channel yahmaha MG124CX mixer!...

My name is Marco Esposito, I live in Bristol and I am 25 years old. Ever since I can remember I have loved and been inspired by music of all genres....

WE ARE ALBERT AND TEMPIE A BUDDING REGGAE DUO....

our music is kinda a different style of rap...my boi james sings most of the hooks and i rap the verses.....

This song was written about a month ago. It's acoustic with some added arrangement. All songs are recorded using Apple G5 running Logic Pro. For percussion I use either EX24 Drum sets (some from disks) wavs from disks or Drums on Demand Rex2 files. I prefer the rex as they fit the arrangement and are editable easily. Acoustic guitars are Yamaha and Washburn....

Step 1. I wrote the song on my keyboard an old Roland E15 that I used as a MIDI keyboard....

Blindswitch - New York City Metro Area's most promising up and coming 'power pop' rock band - is here!...

Bio - Blindswitch - New York City Metro Area's most promising up and coming 'power pop' rock band - is here!...

EQUIPMENT - A Yamaha Portable Grand DGX-520 is the Keyboard and a Yamaha DD-55 Digital Percussion provides the main rhythm. The keyboard signal is fed to a Behringer Ultra_Graph Pro GEQ3102 Ultra musical 31 Band Stereo Graphic Equalizer. The equalizer output is then fed to a Zoom Corporation’s RFX-1000 Digital Reverb and Multi Effects. The signals from the SHURE RS130 Microphones via an Ibanez Analog Delay AD100, the Keyboard and Drums are fed to a Lexicon Omega Studio. Desktop Recording Software used are Cube Base, Logic Platinium 5.1.3 and for final Mixing, Mastering and Burning of the CD, MAGIC Audio and Midi Studio Delux. A Yamaha AW16G is available to add Vocals and produce a demo mix of the tracks....

This is a question that just keeps on coming back again and again. Does your choice of cables affect the sound quality of your recording? Well of course, anything makes a difference. But does the degree of difference make a difference to your end product, if you get what I mean...

'Don't Throw Me Away' was the B side of 'Real Garbage', a vinyl 45 pressed and released in the 1980's, and remastered digitally this year for CD album release

You can now buy a plug-in that claims to be able to fix any frequency response problems with your room acoustics. But surely to do this it would need to look into the future?

I've played piano my whole life, and have always been a fan of Chopin's Etudes and Preludes. I also like instrumental rock like Frank Zappa and Steve Vai, and also play a little electric guitar....

A Yamaha Portable Grand DGX-520 is the Keyboard and a Yamaha DD-55 Digital Percussion provides the main rhythm. The keyboard signal is fed to a Behringer Ultra_Graph Pro GEQ3102 Ultra musical 31 Band Stereo Graphic Equalizer. The equalizer output is then fed to...

"Fresh from a comparison test against preamps costing $200 and $1500 - which it beat handsomely - the secrets of the $5 preamp are at last revealed."

Hello all and thank you for taking the time to listen to my muz.......

In response to pleas for durable, professional-grade mic/line inputs with multiple outputs for live sound, location recording, and broadcast, Drawmer has engineered the all new Kickbox 4x4 portable active splitter...

'In Her Arms' was inspired by the spiritual and serene Madonna-like beauty of a friend holding her newborn infant son. They are shown in the picture (which is used with permission) to illustrate the origin of the melody, and attempt to capture the peace and love a mother feels for her child.

All instruments are tracked into the Roland VS1680. As I do everything from writing, playing and mixing I do not have the luxury of sitting behnind the glass tweaking the sopund of a mic'd amp etc....

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