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Questions tagged [home-studio]

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What is/are the first effect(s) I should put on raw vocal recordings?

The main problem my finished tracks have is a poor quality vocal sound. I generally try to apply a dynamic range compression filter first and then add some reverb/chorus as appropriate but I can never get results that are good enough. What do you…
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Suggestions for micing violins

I have a session coming up where I will be recording a couple violins. I've done a few violin sessions in the past and never been happy with the violin sound I've ended up with - it's always been too thin and harsh. Any tips on mic placement to…
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Is Garage Band a viable tool for home recording?

Is Garage Band a good investment for a home studio? Are there any crippling limitations that would impact the quality of my productions? For example, limited number of tracks, bad performance in common situations, lack of good plugins, bad MIDI…
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Sound system for home theater and band

My father is building a home theater system in his new home. Since it will be sound proof he wants to use the room for playing music and dancing as well. So now I am tasked to find a sound system suitable for watching movies, listening to music, as…
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Voiceover Recording Equipment

I'm in the earliest stages of starting a 2nd career as a voice professional, and will be working from my home office. The work involves bidding on, and accepting voice-over jobs from commercial, corp, and private sector clients; the work could…
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How to transfer records from cassettes to the computer?

I have a walkman with a lot of cassettes (TDK D-C60 cassette) - some of the records that I made back in 80's - can anyone, please, recommend a software for transferring all those records from cassettes to the computer.
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DIY Digital recording studio

I want to set up a small home studio. What should I be looking for in a digital recording system? I'm most familiar with Windows on a PC, and have been eyeing off products like the Delta 1010LT
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How should I improve my singing?

I've been singing and playing guitar and writing songs for years with neither fame nor many complaints, but when I started trying to record myself a couple of years ago I noticed how terrible my vocals are. I am pretty happy with the quality of the…
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What gear do I need to start Home recording?

My dad is planning to build a home recording studio for him and his friends to use. Suggestions on recording gear and microphones? The instruments will most likely be: 2 x electric guitars 1 x bass guitar 1 x keyboard 2 x microphones ?? x percussion…
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Looking for a small mixer with jacks on the BACK

Most small mixers (Yamaha MG10X, Mackie Mix8) have the connectors on top. I am trying to fit my home studio into a small desk, and it would be nice not to have to leave that much vertical space over the top of the back of mixer. My cabling doesn't…
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Home studio minimum setting and cost

What would be the minimum requirement neccessary for audio (music) home studio? And what would be the minimum cost? what software and hardware would you recommend?
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making a multiple speaker system from stereo headphone socket for apartment

I have an mp3 player that has a headphone/speaker output socket of 3.5mm type. I want to use it to feed into a group of 4 speakers sets for PCs. The maximum cable distance should be around 8 meters long. I would like to be able to regulate the…
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