Category: Instruments

As a guitar player with a home studio, I have connected my guitar to my PC many times over the years. I have done this for both recording and for practice. It did take me a while, however, to work...

Digital pianos are amazing devices, providing an instrument that sounds and feels incredibly similar to an acoustic piano with greater reliability and ease of maintenance. The prices cover such a...

A lot of home studios, including mine, contain a MIDI keyboard. Music gear can get expensive, and it's great when you can use a piece of equipment for multiple purposes. So can that MIDI keyboard you...

MIDI keyboards have been a part of my home studio since I first started home recording in the late 1990s. Whenever I have worked with MIDI a MIDI keyboard has proved its worth many times over, making...

All the guitar amps I have bought in the last few years have been separate amp heads. This is to benefit from the versatility that a separate amp head and speaker cab gives me. However, unlike a...

Recording most instruments these days is relatively easy in a home studio. One common exception is recording drums; this is still fairly difficult to do at home, for reasons of space, noise and the...