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Secrets to Building a Home Recording Studio: The Complete Guide
By Robbin Green
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Do you want to build a perfect home recording studio? Are you a beginner musician and are feeling overwhelmed or don't know where to start? Or perhaps you'd like to know how to start your own home studio but are limited on space? If you want to build the perfect home recording studio this is the ideal book for you.
This guide covers everything from choosing the perfect location and equipment to mixing and masting your recordings with common digital audio workstation plugins and functionalities. We'll even touch on the more technical side so you can achieve pro-sounding recordings!
This complete guide covers:
- How to choose the perfect location for your home recording studio
- How to acoustically treat your room to get great-sounding recordings
- The List of the equipment you will need and how to set them up
- How to choose your digital audio workstation
- The technical side of recording: using EQ, compression and audio effects such as harmonic layering and panning
- and much more...
Let's help you build your own studio so you can start setting up your own how music studio and producing your own high-quality recordings!
LanguageEnglish
PublisherMusic Studio Insights
Release dateFeb 6, 2022
ISBN9781386744993
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Readers find this title to be a fantastic book for everyone interested in music production. It provides a great overview of different ways and types of producing, including how to properly mix audios. The book is enjoyable and well-written, aimed at beginners but also valuable for more experienced individuals. It is recommended for anyone looking to get into music production and set up an efficient recording studio.
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Fantastic book for everyone who want's to produce music. It gives you a great overview about the different ways and types of producing. This provided a great intro for music producing. I am pretty new to the subject. Even covers how to properly mix your audios too which was a bonus to me as i didn't know anything about what terms like wet and dry were. - Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
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Book preview
Secrets to Building a Home Recording Studio - Robbin Green
Secrets to Building a Home
Recording Studio: The
Complete Guide
By Music Studio Insights
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Popular Frequently Asked Question
Chapter 2: Preparing the Studio
Choosing the Right Location
Eliminate all Background Noise
Acoustic Treatment
Materials for Acoustic Treatment
Placement of Your Equipment
Chapter 3: Home Recording Equipment Essentials List
Choosing Your Computer
Choosing Your Operating System
Choosing Your Digital Audio Workstation
Choosing Your Microphone
Choosing Your Audio Interface
Choosing Your Studio Monitors
Choosing Your Headphones
Chapter 4: Music Creation Software
Free Digital Audio Workstations
The DAWS You Should Use
Chapter 5: Audio Effects and Mixing Your Audio
Common Audio Effects: EQ, Compression, Reverb
Audio Techniques: Panning and Harmonic Layering
Buses
Dry and Wet Signals
Top 10 Home Recording Tips
Chapter 1: How to Build a Home Recording Studio
Text Description automatically generatedBuilding a home recording studio can be a daunting task, especially if it's your first studio. We’ve put this guide together to help anybody who’s looking to build a home recording studio.
In this book, we will cover all the steps to set up your first home recording studio. This book will teach you:
In this section of the guide, we will go over the most frequently asked questions that are asked when starting a home recording studio.
The Most Frequently Asked Question When Starting a Home Recording Studio:
We've put together a series of questions and answers that are frequently asked by musicians or people who are building a home recording studio for the first time. We recommend you read through each one of these before building your home music studio.
It will help you understand the process ahead and give you answers to popular unknown questions that will help you in the future.
How much does a home recording studio cost?
The cost of a home studio doesn’t have to be expensive and can significantly vary depending on the purpose of your studio.
On average we would expect a basic home music studio to cost anywhere between $200 – $1000. This price will also vary depending on if you already have some equipment such as a computer.
Built into most digital audio workstations will have instruments that you can use to produce music. So, if you were planning to record drums, guitars, and other instruments you don’t have to have the physical instruments. Instead, you can use the DAW’s (Audio recording software) functionality to record them. This will save a lot of money.
Generally, the microphone, audio interface and the computer are the most important equipment to your home recording studio. If you want to save money you can always buy a microphone with a built-in audio interface. A microphone such as the USB Rode-NT is a
USB microphone and doesn’t require an external audio interface. You can simple slot it into one of your computers USB slots.
USB microphones are generally looked down upon for using them in professional settings such as a
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