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The Integral Role of a Patchbay in Your Home Studio

Unlock the potential of your home music studio with the indispensable patch bay. Dive into the comprehensive guide on TRS, TT, and digital patch bays, their setup, and the benefits they offer. Enhance your music production workflow with streamlined connections, ensuring optimal efficiency and creativity.

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Mastering the Basics: The Art of Equalization. A Beginner’s Guide to Different Types of EQ

Discover the different types of EQ and their unique characteristics in our comprehensive guide to mastering the art of equalization. Whether you're an audio enthusiast, musician, or sound engineer, understanding graphic EQs, parametric EQs, shelving EQs, high-pass and low-pass filters, dynamic EQs, and linear phase EQs will empower you to shape and control the frequency content of your audio signals. Unleash your creative vision and enhance the clarity, balance, and depth of your sounds with informed decisions in the world of equalization.

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How to Record Acoustic Piano – The Beginners Guide

There are a few things to remember when recording acoustic piano at home. First, you'll need to choose an appropriate microphone (or microphones) for the job. An acoustic piano, however, will require multiple microphones placed around the instrument to capture all of the nuances of the sound. Second, you'll need to set up your recording environment to be as quiet as possible. This means eliminating potential noise sources, such as air conditioners, fans, or background music. Finally, you'll need to make sure that your piano is in tune before you start recording! Nothing ruins a good recording quicker than an out-of-tune piano.

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Lessons Learned While Building a New Music Studio or Creative Space

When you decide to build a home recording or music studio in your house, there is a tradeoff between functionality and what can be done realistically to the space. The key to my basement studio was to try to keep mechanical noise out of the mixing space rather than deaden the sound in the room and prevent it from leaking out. In this blog post, I discuss how I designed and built my personal music studio.

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