Apr 30, 2015 | $300 Studio Challenge, Audio Example, Rant, Tips, Video |
What gear you use to record or mix is totally irrelevant. How you use it, however makes a world of difference. And how well you KNOW your gear changes how you use it. Today I want to wrap up our little $300 Studio Challenge by offering some parting thoughts and...
Apr 23, 2015 | $300 Studio Challenge, Audio Example, Mixing, My Music, Tips, Video |
Can you really get a great mix with only the stock plugins on a free piece of software? That’s been my challenge this week as I’m wrapping up our little challenge of recording and mixing a great sounding full band production with only $300 worth of gear....
Apr 16, 2015 | $300 Studio Challenge, Audio Example, My Music, Tips, Video |
Today we wrap up recording our song with a humble low budget home studio. It’s time to track vocals and any remaining fill instruments. When you boil down great recordings of great songs, it always seems to come down to having a great vocal track. So the...
Apr 9, 2015 | $300 Studio Challenge, Audio Example, My Music, Tips, Video |
Time for Part 2 of our mini series, where we’re recording an entire song with nothing more than $300 worth of gear. Today we tackle the guitars and bass – a pretty straightforward endeavor (at least compared to drums last week). The acoustic guitar was...
Apr 2, 2015 | $300 Studio Challenge, Audio Example, Tips, Video |
To kick off this mini series I’m tackling the hardest part of the challenge first – recording drums with one microphone. Since this $300 studio comes with only one microphone, we have to get a full sounding, rocking drum recording with a one mic setup....
Mar 26, 2015 | $300 Studio Challenge, Rant, Video |
It’s amazing how frustrated people get when you tell them that it doesn’t take much money to build a powerful home studio these days. You’d think that would be good news. And in fact it is! We are living during an AMAZING time for music makers. Gear...