In a separate post, we wrote extensively about acoustic treatment. This involves making your home recording studio a suitable space for making professional recordings by dealing with reverberation, flutter echoes and so on. Here we look in a bit more detail at a related but different aspect of setting up your home recording studio space: […]
How To Make Your First Recording In A DAW – Step By Step Guide
In the video tutorial below, I show you how to create your first audio recording in a DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) like Reaper. This can seem complicated at first! So you learn how to record in Audacity, which is very easy, then upscale the knowledge to make your first audio recording in Reaper. To follow this tutorial, you […]
Connect And Record Your Keyboard or Piano: Complete Step-By-Step Video Course
Start Here … Want to record the sound of your digital keyboard or piano? Or do you want to know how to use it as a MIDI keyboard controller? If so we created a whole series of step-by-step videos showing you exactly how to do that. Whether you just want to make scratch recordings with […]
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 […]
Setting Up Your USB Mic on Windows
The USB microphone SHOULD be an easy, plug and play recording solution. Unfortunately, as many of you have discovered, there can be significant problems setting up a USB microphone on Windows 10. In particular, many people report very low recording volumes with USB microphones. At the time of writing, this is still an ongoing issue. […]
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 […]
Test Your MIDI Device On Windows or Mac: Our Complete Troubleshooting Guide
Sometimes it can be really hard to be sure if your MIDI keyboard controller or other your USB-MIDI interface is working correctly, particularly if you are using it with complicated software. My suggestion is to separate the two things! Test that the hardware is working OK first. Use your computer’s control panel then test the […]