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Today me and my wife's step dad set about building a purpose build studio in the garden. We are at the very beginning of the project. The available space we have to work in is 13'(w)x13'(L)x8'(h). We are currently clearing the space at the end of the garden and are about to start drawing up some...

Hello everyone, Ive just sold my amp and am now in need of some studio monitors. MY budget is £300 for the pair and i have limited room in my "studio" so i was looking at 5" models like the Yamaha hs5. I have been warned off them and to go for a bigger size speaker but i am really tight of...

So i Just got me my first real proper mic! Anyone got any tips on how to use the mic to its full potential? Im going to be doing mainly acoustic guitar and vox on it for now but abit of electric guitar aswell!

Right, ive just purchased a focusrite liquid saffire 56. I am trying to get a good set up to be able to record full bands. The next thing i need to look at is my daw. I am Currently using reaper but im not liking it atm. The two options i currently have are: Save up for an avid eleven rack...

So after taking everyones advice into account i went ahead and got this beast! A massive step up for me! Thanks to everyone who helped me with this!

Hey everyone, I've been around a little while with a very basic mixer into mac configuration but want to take the next step into recording much better sounding music, not just demos for my band. My first step is to get a really good audio interface with some great mic pre's. What i have been...

Hey everyone, im looking for a kinda budget mic pack or maybe just one mic. I wanna be able to do vox and acoustic/electric guitars. I will use it with an alesis multimix 2 usb preamp. Would it be better to get one mic or a pack like this? Search Results For 'MXL 550 ...Condenser Pack' from...

Anyone know wat key these chords would be in? e-2--2--4 b-4--2--7 g-4--4--6 d-2--4--4 a-2--2--4 d-2--2--4 An a minor scale sounds pretty gd over it. not sure wether thats the key tho, im not too gd with theory at all :P xxx

Hey, ive just been looking into getting some room treatment. Onlything is i cant have anything permanent, so i was looking into getting a four of these and putting one on each wall of my shed, which is currently my recording studio :S. http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/FlexiBoothBd And...

Hey, ive just been looking into getting some room treatment. Onlything is i cant have anything permanent, so i was looking into getting a four of these and putting one on each wall of my shed, which is currently my recording studio :S. http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/FlexiBoothBd And...

hey, iv'e always been the kinda guy who plug his guitar to his stack then plays, however i wanna start playing about with some pedals and "apparently" i have to get a EQ pedal to get a better live tone. Anyone had any good EQ pedals they could reccomend? xxx

Hey, im still pretty new to recording and have been using a md421 mic to mic an amp then to an m audio box strait into my pc to reaper. However i recently have got my hands on a imac and was thinking of upgrading my mbox to a mackie onxy 1620i so i can have more inputs and firewire capability...

hey i got a new laptop and i need to reinstall cubase le4 i know how to do the reinstallation, ony problem is i need to get into cubase to get a code, and as the 30 day trial ran out, the only options i get are register or cancel. When i click register it just puts me on to the steinberg...

hey, im probably just being an ideot. but ive been reading alot of this forum and i keep bumping into the term DAW. Can someone please tell me wat this actually means!! thanks xxx

hey im looking for some new music to listen to and im wondering what people would consider there favorite song/band atm so i could maybe look some of them up. I song im really into at the minute is call Criminals by Johnny foreigner. Check it out tell us what you think, then post a song of you...