Thursday, November 12, 2009

DIY Music Production

By Mick LLaleBeoufey

Why spend money to do the recording at the professional studio when you can do it at home? Are you able to produce a top quality work when the professional 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's not as tough as you believed.

Today's recording relied heavily on the computer software ; thus, you need to have a decent computer to help you. If you are not a tech savvy, get the computer support consultant to wire up everything for you properly. The PC should supply 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 such as electronic keyboard or electone if you have the budget. Otherwise, a normal computer keyboard can also do the same thing but it is rather tedious. Incidentally, for a beginner, I would like to recommend a product call Prodikeys by Creative Technology. Prodikeys is the mix of music keyboard ( with only 37 keys ) and PC keyboard.

it is recommended for you to have a reasonably good mic. The standard mic that comes with the PC is not acceptable for sound recording purposes. Ask the audio shop to recommend one which is commonly used for singing purpose. Having said that, you needn't 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 particular music production. Reason being, learning to use the software can be time intensive. The disappointment in the training process may kill your creativity at that point.



There are some crucial things to notice when you plan for your music arrangement. As further amendment and enhancement will certainly be carried out by the recording company, don't make your music too sophisticated. It is more critical that you are able to show the uniqueness and the feeling of your music. Your music must be in a position to read and therefore understood by the music producers.

Enjoy your recording.

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