Guide to getting and playing better gigs
Build a Home Studio
Setting up a home recording studio can be a tricky business, and it's easy to spend a lot money and waste a lot of effort. There's more to setting up a studio than just buying the equipment. It's how the equipment is set up and the surroundings that are important. Your studio should be an environment in which you can feel comfortable and creative, in which you can sit down and start work without any preparation or messing about with the equipment. You just go in there and start making music. And when your tape's finished, it's perfectly possible that your recording might be as good as anything a full time professional engineer could have produced in a commercial studio.
It's been practical to have a studio at home since the early 1980s when the doubters thought you had to go to a 'proper' studio to achieve anything at all worthwhile. Home studio owners have however, proved the doubters wrong many times and their work can be heard on record, CD, television and radio worldwide. And this is something almost any musician could do. It will take quite a bit of hard work to set up the studio and gain sufficient experience in using it, but musical success can be within your grasp if you want it badly enough.
The equipment that's available now for people just starting out is much better than it used to be, but manufacturers will often only tell you about the easy options. Buying the equipment is as easy as saving up the money, but putting it all together properly needs know-how. Much of the know-how is here, and books are available to tell you everything you could possibly want to know.
The best model really is the top professional studio and many of their techniques can be copied at home. Sometimes, where the difficulties really are too great, you'll have to compromise a little, but that won't stop you having a great studio and making great recordings. Take care to read as much as you can and understand as much as you can before you start work. As the saying goes, a journey of a thousand miles starts with a single step, so click the links below and begin...