Yes, music store credit cards are worth it … so long as you can afford the minimum monthly payments and you’re confident you won’t miss any. It can even help your credit score grow, so long as you remain responsible…
The ideal humidity level for musical instruments is 40% to 50%. For electronics, like guitar amps or home studio recording equipment, you have a broader acceptable range of 30% to 70%. Keeping humidity levels nominal protects your instruments from all…
We spend a lot of time thinking about how things sound in our home recording studios.But what about how the room itself sounds? Okay … some of you are saying “dude, it’s a room. It sounds like air.” And you’re…
Figuring out how to record drums effectively in a home recording studio can be a huge pain in the rear. Drum kits have a lot of components, and capturing all of that sound means you also need a lot of…
At some early point in your journey to build a home recording studio, you’re going to end up looking at recording studio microphones. And it cannot be understated just how overwhelming that process can be. Terms like “polar patterns”, “phantom…
The Binghamton Record Fair is coming to the Broome County Regional Farmer's Market on March 26th.
At some point in any forward-moving band’s career, you’re going to wonder how to record a full band. And you won’t get too deep into that question before realizing one particularly ugly truth. Recording a full band is flippin’ expensive.…
An audio interface, also known as an “AD/DA converter” or simply an “AI”, converts analog audio signals into digital ones so your computer can use them, and then turns digital signals back to analog so you can hear them through…
It’s the first major decision any budding home studio engineer needs to make, and it’s an important one: Which DAW should you use in your home recording studio? And for that matter, what is a DAW, anyway? A DAW (Digital…
When it comes to buying a PC or a Mac to serve as your recording studio computer, faster is always better. But contrary to popular belief, you don’t need a cutting-edge computer to record high-quality music. Unlike editing videos or…
