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Sound Card or Audio Interface in The Home Studio?

The stock Sound Card that ships with your computer is fine for listening to mp3’s and watching YouTube video’s, but for music recording, home studio production, or any audio recording environment, it’s just not going to cut it. What is an audio interface? What’s the...

The Midi Keyboard and Midi Controller

Because of the improved functionality of midi keyboards within the home recording studio, midi keyboards have become widely used by electronic musicians, live performers, compositional producers, and hobbyists of all levels. Keyboards provide hands on control over...

Understanding Audio Effects

Through properly understanding audio effects, you can add flavorful spices and unique characteristics to your recordings.. They can add warmth to acoustic instruments, put life into your virtual instruments, or soften a brittle sounding sample. They can also...

Analog To Digital Conversion

How does an analog signal transform into a digital audio sample? What equipment is used to turn audio – into a file format that can be stored onto a digital medium? Digital Audio Conversion To record and produce music onto CD, with a Digital Audio Workstation:...

Understanding The Audio Mixer

Mixing boards, or mixers, (also known as mixing consoles, or an audio mixer ) are the central hardware used in a mixer-based recording studio. Mixers receive input signals sent from connected audio producing devices, and offer controls to determine how these signals...

Digital To Analog Conversion

Digital to Analog Conversion is the reverse process of the  Analog to Digital Conversion. (Read up on Analog to Digital conversion.) In summary, the binary numbers of digital audio are translated back into an analog signal. A DAT machine, MO Drive, sampler, compact...