AIR Studios from your Spare Room? Making Recordings in Home Studios

AIR Studios from your Spare Room? Making Recordings in Home Studios

Recording acoustic instruments for your compositions is a great way to make your music stand out, but it can be difficult to get high-quality results in a non-ideal space. There are a lot of factors that can impact the outcome - acoustics, microphone technique, and hardware configuration, to name a few… Here we discuss some considerations to help you get the best out of your home studio recordings.

Missing Samples: Where should they be anyway?!

With an abundance of sample libraries from an ever expanding list of manufacturers, keeping track of where their data is stored on your system can quickly become an uphill battle. We discuss some of the ways you can ease this headache and organise your file structure.

Data Synchronisation for the Audio World

Data Synchronisation for the Audio World

With audio professionals increasingly working across multiple sites and often collaborating on projects between continents, flexible & reliable data synchronisation systems have become a necessity for many. We consider a variety of options including Syncthing, Dropbox and Google Drive and also explore how the system can double up as an off-site backup.

Can I Build a Studio in my Garden?

Can I Build a Studio in my Garden?

Working from home is one thing. But once you’ve alienated your family with the constant repetition of your latest theme tune and even the dog is bored of seeing your face, it’s time to re-think. Could your life be better with a garden studio?

The Perfect Workstation

The Perfect Workstation

It’s one of those things that initially seems like such a luxury - a purpose-built workstation desk; and it’s normally the first thing to go when the budget is squeezed. But why? This is where you’re going to work for hours and hours every day for a large part of your life! All that expensive equipment you have is going to be used on this desk. So why would you make do with something that is going to make your life more difficult and, in many cases we’ve seen, even painful?

The 2019 Mac Pro - Logic Pro X Performance Tests

The 2019 Mac Pro - Logic Pro X Performance Tests

Due to the level of interest in the newly-released 2019 Mac Pro, we’ve taken the opportunity to run some performance tests which help determine exactly what we can expect from the new machine, compared with some other choice models.

New Year, New Computer, New OS - A Personal Take On Mac Upgrades

New Year, New Computer, New OS - A Personal Take On Mac Upgrades

We enter the mind of our chief tech, Antony - a strange and wondrous place - as he talks us through his history of computer and OS upgrades. It’s better than it sounds…

The Yamaha NS-10 - With Reference to What?

The Yamaha NS-10 - With Reference to What?

Despite being intended for something else altogether the Yamaha NS-10 became the studio reference monitor of the choice for control rooms across the world. But since production ceased 18 years ago our recording studios and the loudspeakers inside them have changed dramatically. Pete discusses the past and future of the studio reference monitor.