DIY Music Production

By Mick LLaleBeoufey

Why spend money to do the recording at the professional studio when you can do it at home? Can you produce a top quality work when the pro studio charge you hourly rate? How excellent if you can do the recording at home anytime you like? Let's see how can this happen. It isn't as tough as you thought.

Today's recording relied heavily on the computer software ; so, you need to have an honest computer to help you. If you are not a tech savvy, get the PC support consultant to wire up everything for you properly. The PC should equip with a sound card with midi in / out port.

Music revising software or some call music sequencer is a total must. There are number of such products in the market. As an example, Acid and Cinescore from Sony and Sonar home studio from Cakewalk.

For the input device, you can buy a midi input device like electronic keyboard or electone if you've got the budget. Otherwise, an ordinary PC keyboard can also do the same thing but it is rather tedious. By the way, for a noob, I want to recommend a product call Prodikeys by Creative Technology. Prodikeys is the combination 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 PC is not OK for sound recording purposes. Ask the audio shop to advocate one which is commonly 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 to keep the undesired noise to minimum.

Once the infrastructure is up, you will need to familiarize yourself with the music revising software before everything else. Don't start to work out how to use the software only when you are into the music production. Reason being, learning to use the software can be long. The disappointment in the educational process may kill your talent at that time.



There are some critical things to notice 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 difficult. It is more important that you are able to show the uniqueness and the feeling of your music. Your music must be able to read and thus understood by the music producers.

Enjoy your recording. - 29943

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