Monday, November 16, 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? Can you produce a top quality work when the professional studio charge you hourly rate? How amazing if you can do the recording at home anytime you like? Let's see how can this happen. It isn't as difficult as you assumed.

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

Music editing software or some call music sequencer is an absolute 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 get a midi input device like electronic keyboard or electone if you have the budget. Otherwise, an ordinary PC keyboard can also do the same thing but it is rather tedious. Incidentally, for a beginner, I want to recommend a product call Prodikeys by Creative Technology. Prodikeys is the mixture of music keyboard ( with only 37 keys ) and computer keyboard.

it is advisable for you to have a moderately good mic. The ordinary mic that comes with the PC isn't OK for sound recording purposes. Ask the audio shop to suggest 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 in order to keep the undesired noise to minimum.

Once the infrastructure is up, you will need to familiarize yourself with the music editing software before everything else. Don't start to figure out how to use the software only when you're into the actual music production. Reason being, learning to use the software can be long. The frustration in the learning process may kill your talent 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 difficult. It is more critical that you are able to show the uniqueness and the feeling of your music. Your music must be ready to read and therefore understood by the music producers.

Enjoy your recording.

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