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All About Home and Project Studio Monitors
The Truth about Studio Monitors A Common Sense approach to uncovering the "Truth" about what we hear by Tweak Dynaudio BM6a MKII So lets talk about studio monitors. A thorny subject to be sure, with as many opinions as is believable. As with microphones and sequencers, the debate often turns into fl…
Choosing a Multi Track Recorder for your Home Studio
Choosing a Multi Track Recorder for your home studio What you need to watch out for when buying an MTR by Rich the TweakMeister The Alesis ADAT HD24 is a 24 track digital recorder. This kind of multi track requires that you buy a separate mixer. They are good for home studios that are called on to r…
Essential Concepts for Home Studios by SoundCravers Lab
Essential Concepts for putting together a Home Studio Hooking Up Audio MIDI Basics The Audio Interfac e Signal Flow of the Computer-based Mixerless Studio Signal Flow of an MPC Hip Hop Studio Signal Flow of a MultiTrack Studio Digital Audio Converters Sample Rate and Bit Depth Studio Monitors Assemb…
Everything you were Afraid to Ask about Cables
Everything you were afraid to ask about Cables for your home or project recording studio by Tweak One of Tweak's jungles of cables, in fact, one of the more orderly ones. Putting together a home studio requires a mind that can visualize, in a second, the signal flow of the entire studio from every r…
Female Vocalists that have recorded at TwekaHeadz Lab
Female Vocalists that have visited and recorded at SoundCravers Lab Christina Morgan at the Lab Oct 2008 Cynthia at the Lab Sept 2008 Fun Stuff Pictures of 270 Home Studios 10 years of Namm Show Highlights History of SoundCravers Lab Gear at SoundCravers Lab Philosophy and Music The Showroom Gifts f…
How to Build a Quiet Studio Environment by SoundCravers Lab
How to Build a Quiet Studio Environment that enhances musical creativity by SoundCravers Lab There is a lot of knowledge about how to build a home recording studio. Underneath most of this is an implicit assumption that a recording studio is something you build to keep sounds from going in or out of…
How to make money in your Home Studio by SoundCravers Lab
How to make money in your home studio Adam A7 Powered Nearfield Monitor The A7 matches the A.R.T. tweeter with a state of the art 6.5-inch woofer that introduces a new cone material combining high rigidity and high internal damping with low weight, resulting in an extremely accurate monitor with all…
How to Make Money on MP3.com
How We Made Money on MP3.com by Rich the TweakMeister Note: this article is dated. It is no longer possible to make such great sums of money on MP3.com. Vivendi universal first lowered the payout from around 6 cents a play to 0.5 cents a play, and now they have gotten rid of payback for playback alt…
How to setup a Surround Mix on t
How to setup a Surround Mix on the MX9000 or SX4882 by the Tweak The SX4882 and the MX 9000 mixers have the same format. 24 ch, 8 bus +mix B. One thing I have done was a set up to monitor surround mixes on the MX9000. Though it is not advertised as a surround mixer, it was easy to do with all the i/…
Impedance for Musicians
Impedance for Musicians Only what the home studio operator needs to know under construction I magine a world where pieces of gear could talk to each other . Here we have Mr. Microphone, Mrs. Mixer, and Master Newb. I know this sounds stupid, but listen, I am going to make sure this gets through your…
Music Studio Setup Chart
Signal Flow in an Intermediate Studio, Classic Mixer Approach Review As the classic mixer based MIDI and Audio, because it uses MIDI synths, can get away with a modestly powered desktop computer. Of course, the more plugins, software synths and samplers you use the more power you will need. back to…
Podcasting from Your Home Studio
Podcasting from your Home Studio Plus a simple Recipe for Podcasting If there was any one thing that happened in the 20th century that was significant , that never happened before in human history, it was the awakening of technology . Telephone, radio, TV, internet. We became accustomed to staring i…
Putting Together your Recording
Putting Together your Recording Studio On the Forums CONFIGURING Your RIG, and Hookup Issues How do I set up my Rig? What gear works best with What? Also cabling, and all issues regarding connecting MIDI, SCSI, Firewire, USB, S/PDIF, R-BUS, TDIF, ADAT, MTC, SMPTE and others. Also Racks and Studio Fu…
Recording Studio Accessories for Home, Project and Pro Studios
Home Studio Setup Tips and accessories for home, project, pro studios by Rich the TweakMeister Organization is everything when it comes to building an efficient home recording studio. Its about space relative to your body, gear relative to your hands, ideas and possibilities close to your mind. Twea…
Room Acoustics for the Home Studio
Room Acoustics for the Home Studio How to create a great sounding studio environment in a typical room in your home by Tweak O ne can really delve deep into this subject and a lot of people do. Acoustics is a science. Recording is an art. I try to keep a focus on what will help make better art. Afte…
Setting up a Patchbay in your Home Studio by SoundCravers lab
Setting up a Patchbay in your Home Studio Increase your creative options with flexible signal paths by SoundCravers Lab Y our significant other barges in your studio and screams the usual blood curdling scream at that always annoying pitch. There you lay on the floor, under the desk, and you aren't…
SoundCravers · Assembling Your Recording Studio
Guides Reviews Catalog zZounds Links - Guitar Bass Keyboard Recording Computers Live Drums DJ Accessories Blowouts Assembling Your Recording Studio Mar 22 — By The Tweak Creating Your Studio Tweak's Guide to the Home and Project Studio Overview of Assembling 4 Home Studios How to Configure a Recordi…
The Concise History of the Home Studio
The Concise History of the Home Studio How we used to do it, how we do it today By Rich the TweakMeister Hey, this is not the definitive history of home recording but a quick timeline to give you the gist of what happened before you got here. This is the timeline you have to know to make sense of de…
The War on Hum
The War on Hum How to Maintain a Hum Free Audio System By Tweak T he "war on hum" is a battle every home studio has to wage. I have been battling it since I started recording, sometimes winning, sometimes losing. Currently, I am winning the war. The more gear you have, the more likely you are to enc…
Tips
Hot Tips Tip #1: Focus on what touches the sound! (Hint, it's NOT the computer) Excellent Microphone + Excellent preamp + Excellent Converters + Excellent Monitors =Great Sound! Tip # 2 Knowledge IS Power! Great Performances +recording technique + Inspired MIX + Mastering = Professional Quality Prod…
Using Harmonizers in your Home Studio
Using Harmonizers Define your signature vocal sound and more by the Tweak Eventide Eclipse Harmonizer Studio Effects Processor The harmonizer is one of the less understood studio processors. They are less likely to show up in a typical home studio rack. I think that is an oversight, though it's easy…
Why We Think Today's Music Stinks
Why Everyone Thinks Today's Music Stinks L et's talk greed (the desire to make one's own lot better at the expense of making someone else's worse) and what we call reality. The greed of corporations is blind to its real effects in the world. It's main technique is to convince you to buy things from…