Understanding making music with specific instruments in your home studio e.g. guitar, bass, piano, etc.
Connecting an acoustic guitar to a computer is usually done to record the sound of the guitar on the computer. In this sense “connecting” means getting a signal from the sound that your guitar makes, and ultimately capturing that sound in software. To connect an acoustic guitar to a computer you can use a microphone…
If you record music, at some point you’re probably going to want to record an acoustic guitar, most likely by placing a microphone in front of it. Can good results be obtained by using a standard multi-purpose dynamic microphone, such as a Shure SM57? The Shure SM57 is a very capable microphone for recording an…
When I first started getting interested in playing electric guitar in the late 1980s, I didn’t even realize that you needed an amplifier to be able to hear the sound. Eventually, I learned there were two different physical forms of guitar amplifier – separate heads and cabs, and combos. A guitar amp head is a…
A MIDI keyboard is one of the most common and useful instruments to have in a home studio. But how do you connect the keyboard to your computer so you can record the MIDI information into your DAW (Digital Audio Workstation)? What sort of interface do you need? A MIDI keyboard does not need an…
