Recording acoustic instruments for your compositions is a great way to make your music stand out, but it can be difficult to get high-quality results in a non-ideal space. There are a lot of factors that can impact the outcome - acoustics, microphone technique, and hardware configuration, to name a few… Here we discuss some considerations to help you get the best out of your home studio recordings.
Missing Samples: Where should they be anyway?!
Data Synchronisation for the Audio World
With audio professionals increasingly working across multiple sites and often collaborating on projects between continents, flexible & reliable data synchronisation systems have become a necessity for many. We consider a variety of options including Syncthing, Dropbox and Google Drive and also explore how the system can double up as an off-site backup.
The Holes in Apple's 2023 Mac Pro
Can I Build a Studio in my Garden?
Integrating Vintage Synths Into a Modern Studio
The Perfect Workstation
It’s one of those things that initially seems like such a luxury - a purpose-built workstation desk; and it’s normally the first thing to go when the budget is squeezed. But why? This is where you’re going to work for hours and hours every day for a large part of your life! All that expensive equipment you have is going to be used on this desk. So why would you make do with something that is going to make your life more difficult and, in many cases we’ve seen, even painful?
Writing On The Road... Our Tips for Successful Mobile Composition Rigs
The 2019 Mac Pro - Logic Pro X Performance Tests: The Appendix
DAW Storage Performance
Backup Tedium Part III: Planning the Strategy
DAW Timecode Sync
Clean Living - Audio Equipment Sanitisation
The 2019 Mac Pro - Logic Pro X Performance Tests
New Year, New Computer, New OS - A Personal Take On Mac Upgrades
macOS Catalina - Three Months On
The 2019 Mac Pro
Tidy Studio, Tidy Sound? 3 Top Tips for Uncluttering Your Studio
The Yamaha NS-10 - With Reference to What?
Despite being intended for something else altogether the Yamaha NS-10 became the studio reference monitor of the choice for control rooms across the world. But since production ceased 18 years ago our recording studios and the loudspeakers inside them have changed dramatically. Pete discusses the past and future of the studio reference monitor.