Here is a post from Home Brew Audio (my “side project” about audio recording that is rapidly becoming my “main” project:) that is the first in a series explaining not only how to build a home recording studio using your computer, but also how to get the best possible audio quality from it for the least cost.

These posts will explain two types of gear configurations and offer 4 tips for creating the clearest and cleanest audio possible. You’ll also learn how to step into the “professional quality audio” level by using the 4 tips and a microphone costing less than $100.

You’ll also see how home recording studio configuration 2 is the foundation for even the highest-end professional computer-based studios, and how you can enter that world for as low as about $250.

See the part 1 of the series here: www.homebrewaudio.com/how-to-build-a-home-recording-studio-part-1

After having given several presentations, both on and off line, on how to set up for recording pro audio at home, I recorded a video version of seminar.  That’s where this series of posts comes from.  It is basically the script of the presentation.

That video will be available at www.homebrewaudio.com later this week (by May 11th, 2012 at the latest).

Feel free to post a comment if you want to see news or information on recording or Raven Boy Music or voice-overs or anything at all.

Cheers!

Ken

If you were wondering whether it was possible to record a song, specifically a rock song, on a (very) modest home recording studio, take a listen to this.  It’s a 1-man-band cover of the song That Thing You Do, (written by Adam Schlesinger for the movie of the same name) recorded from scratch on my computer-based home recording studio set up in a spare bedroom. 

Why did I do it (other than just being cool)?  I wanted to demonstrate what kind of thing can be done, by just one person, with a basic home music recording studio.

Check out the full post, with a list of gear used, here: http://www.homebrewaudio.com/cover-of-that-thing-you-do-record-a-rock-song-on-your-computer

New equipment for your home audio recording studio is being unveiled every day. You can keep informed of all new arrivals for pro audio gear as it arrives at B&H Photo-Video-Pro Audio by checking in with us as often as you like.  The link will take you to the B&H page for just pro audio gear, and just the absolute latest newest releases.  They update it every day.

Here is the page to bookmark: http://www.homebrewaudio.com/new-arrivals-pro-audio-equipment

Also don’t forget that we have tons of tutorials and “how-to” articles at Home Brew Audio.  Those we update pretty much daily as well.

See ya there!

Ken

www.homebrewaudio.com

Here is a tip that can really help you shorten the process of recording and producing long voice-over jobs, such as audio books, or any other job that requires reading and recording paragraphs of text at a time.  Very few of us are perfect, and we often make little mistakes as we read.  This tip will allow you to keep on going without stopping the recording process, while at the same time, giving you a quick way to delete the mistakes when you’re all done recording.

Read the full article here: http://www.homebrewaudio.com/how-to-finish-long-voice-over-jobs-faster

It is very handy to know how to quickly and accurately cut, copy and paste audio.  It’s especialy useful when dealing with music.  You can slice up a song to make it longer or shorter, or if you are recording your own song you can copy bits that are particularly hard to play or sing, but that repeat throughout the song.  Just play it right one time and then copy and paste it whenever it needs to appear in the song.

One very helpful tool for doing all of this is the “snapping” tool in any audio editing software.  This allows you to ensure that cuts and moves are musically correct.  See how to use the snapping tool to do this in the article here: http://www.homebrewaudio.com/how-to-quickly-and-accurately-cut-copy-or-paste-parts-of-a-song

This is the long-awaited Christmas album by Ken and Lisa Theriot. It is the first Raven Boy Music release by both Ken Theriot AND Lisa Theriot together. In the beginning (ca. 1988) their different song selections and writing styles were different enough that separate “solo” albums made sense. Then they just kept doing it that way. But since The Gifts of Midwinter is a collection of holiday songs, it seemed a good time to to put out a “Ken and Lisa Theriot” album.

Speaking of the songs, here is how the album is described on CD Baby: Songs you don’t hear on every Christmas album, a mix of songs from the secular to the sacred, the medieval to the modern. Two original songs, one cover, and everything else is traditional. The goal from the beginning was to create an album that wasn’t just a rehash of all the same Christmas songs you hear everyone doing. We think we succeeded in that.

You can get the physical CD (as well as the digital album and song downloads) at CD Baby here: The Gifts of Midwinter. That’s also where you can download songs or the whole album from iTunes here: Ken and Lisa Theriot. BTW, since you cannot get the liner notes anywhere but here (limitations with the manufacturing process we use), we offer them free as a pdf download here: The Gifts of Midwinter liner notes.

Take a look and a listen to the songs at the link below below:

http://www.ravenboymusic.com/christmas-album-the-gifts-of-midwinter-by-ken-and-lisa-theriot