Are you just getting started with your first home recording studio setup? Maybe you are feeling a bit overwhelmed and confused? Good news … you are in the right place! At Music Repo we have years of experience in helping people get started. In this post, we explain the key components of a music recording […]
How To Program Your First Drum Track: A Step-By-Step Guide
In this post I am going to look at how I created my first drum track. I have included a video that covers all the steps from starting with a blank project in your recording software to programming your first track. If you want to follow my steps then I recommend you download the printable […]
Music Scanning Software Demystified
I often get asked about how to scan sheet music with music scanning software. Here is a comment that got posted just the other day: “I have all kinds of sheet music books and a new Digital Piano. I also have a laptop and a scanner. Is there anyway to get the Piano to play […]
How To Record Your Acoustic Guitar and Vocals (At The Same Time)
This post is going to take you step by step through the process of how to record acoustic guitar and vocals at the same time with just one mic. The idea here is to capture the authenticity of your performance. Of course you might get a more perfect rendition of the song if you record […]
Change The Tempo Or Pitch Of CD’s, MP3’s Or Any Audio Track
A very common ask. How can you change the tempo or the key of a CD track or any audio file (such as MP3 or wav). A common enough request – especially if you want to fit a track into another arrangement, or you want to practise along with a CD track or MP3. Why […]
Creating a CD from your USB Mic Recordings
You asked: “I bought a Samson Q1U Dynamic USB microphone from you. A Cakewalk LE programme came with the purchase. I want to burn Cd’s of recordings I have made on my Cakewalk LE programme. I understand that I need to buy an encoder for this purpose. Are you able to supply such a programme […]
How To Record A Song Today And Keep It Forever
How to record a song? This is one of the most common questions I get asked…. And it is not something new! One of my most treasured possessions is an old 78 rpm vinyl recording of my father singing ‘Bless This House’ made when he was an 11 year old chorister. It only exists because his […]
Which Guitar Software? The Best Guitar Learning Software in 2018
Which is the best guitar learning software? With so many options available, we examine the various software guitar tutors available and look at which is best. The guitar is the ultimate teach-yourself instrument, and with all the wealth of guitar tuition books already available what are the advantages to using a software based approach? Also, how […]
How To Connect a Microphone To Your PC Computer, Laptop, Mac or iPad
How to connect a microphone to a PC Computer or laptop and start making audio recordings is one of your most frequently asked questions. Nearly all computers have a mic port (nowadays often combined with a headphone port), so it should be possible to directly connect a dynamic mic if you have the appropriate jack for the […]