Comments on: Top 10 Home Music Production Tips

By: David Whiteside - Music Producer

David Whiteside - Music Producer — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 02:37:31 +0000

Exellent article as always. This may be advice for the next stage up, but another important key for generating a great sound out of your home studio is getting two items: an analog to digital converter with word clocking (i.e. apogee and/or crane song), and a very good to excellent pre-amp. These two things will dramatically improve the quality of your sound if and when you record vocals or live instruments. Some major producers I know who run studios out of their home say that their word clocking device is the second most important piece of equipment in their studio, besides their computer.

By: Dc global llc

Dc global llc — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:22:47 +0000

good point Chris. People looking to start a home studio, should be doing a ton of reading before they buy their first piece of gear. The last thing you want is to go buy expensive equipment, and find out you didnt need it. If you plan and have the knowledge ahead of time, it will limit those mistakes and make way for pure productivity. P.S. the time I set up a home studio, I did not choose the right room, and really affected my mixes.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:21:26 +0000

A lot of pointless and common sense tips…like no **** you are going to need a CD burner if you are going to burn CDs.

I guess if you know absolutely nothing about audio this might be helpful, but I think that more important issues have to do with acoustics of the room, mic choice and placement. Like Syn said, if you drop a ton of money on monitors and the room has a specific coloration, that is going to affect your mix. A good performance and quality recording is probably the most important part of home recording.

By: Sah

Sah — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 11:02:16 +0000

hi everyone! i also agree with synonym music’s comment. i think that choosing an area of your house which can be easily sound proofed (the basement is preferred by a lot of home producers) will have save you a lot of time and money. some of my friends don’t splurge on sound proofing, some even use egg trays and its hello music producer!

it great to know that there’s a lot of people who are reading my articles, I’m trying to think of topics I can write about, so watch out! thanks a lot guys!

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:08:57 +0000

good information. good luck all new producers – come visit http://www.musicproducerpro.net for further music production training

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 22:29:25 +0000

great article!

By: Synonym Music

Synonym Music — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 04:36:28 +0000

All good tips. The only problem I can see is with number 4; acoustics are extremely important in all aspects of recording, and you could easily spend several thousand dollars on great monitors… But that will mean almost nothing without a great room – a space which can heavily distort the output (and input) of any transducer.

I would assemble diffusors, bass traps, dampening panels, baffles, risers and any other items necessary to make the room more balanced well before investing in monitors. Ideally you want this POV at construction, but this is a home studio we’re talking about. Work with what you have – in fact, always work with what you have in any aspect of production. If all you have is 10 SM57s, learn to work with those rather than spending more on the latest and greatest.

-Skye

By: PEEDEE

PEEDEE — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:16:25 +0000

Please drop more of this 4me

By: Import from China

Import from China — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:35:33 +0000

Nice post, you got some good points there – thank you.

By: Allen Taylor

Allen Taylor — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 08:34:32 +0000

Nice writing. You are on my RSS reader now so I can read more from you down the road.

Allen Taylor