Video: Sound Quality: How to Build a Home Recording Studio

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Learn tips on how to build your own home recording studio, including advice on microphones, sound quality, recording software and more in these free video clips.

- How to Add Microphones to a Home Recording Studio: Part 1
- Pro Tools Software: How to Build a Home Recording Studio

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evuser17977 Aug 02, 2008
Arie. Thanks for the great tip. I have been compressing the individual tracks but not all the tracks together and needless to say the sound was crap.
redrobin1 Aug 02, 2008
You gave some very good insite in to home recording. I'm basically starting out on my music career and I am beginning to attend a college course in music tech this september. Great information for people like myself just starting out. Thanks REDROBIN.
redrobin1 Aug 02, 2008
You gave some very good insite in to home recording. I'm basically starting out on my music career and I am beginning to attend a college course in music tech this september. Great information for people like myself just starting out. Thanks REDROBIN.

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Now that you have got all the components of your home studio set up, it is time to start product, then get going on your music. First off, be sure that none of your sounds are clicking. Look and see on the meters on your software it should tell you if the sound is clipping. Basically it should go into some sort of gradation between green and red with yellow and orange being about where you want your sound level to be. If the sound is clipping, it will cause a digital distortion. This becomes a problem in your mixes because you aren't really able to get a sound that is consistent throughout the mix. You want to record your sound so that you have a good full amount of volume and amplitude but still you are not clipping that sound. This will give you a pure possible sound. Next add your compressors after you add all the other affects. You also want to compress all the tracks together as well as compressed individual tracks depending on the needs of your recording One thing to consider when using compression and again is to keep the mixes from clipping. Your compressor is something that is going to contain the amplitude of your sounds whereas it will also keep them even and balanced.

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Sound Quality: How to Build a Home Recording Studio

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