As long as I can remember I've always wanted a home recording studio. As with most musicians it was always a dream to have a lab where I could create. In fact, I built a sound proof room in my parent's basement when I was in my twenties. The goal was to build it out as a full fledged recording studio but I didn't have the funds at the time and it ended being a rehearsal space for a band I was playing with. I think the room is still standing!
Now 30 years later I'm able to put together the tools needed to built a pretty cool home studio. Technology improvements have certainly helped. Over the years tape was replaced by disk space as well as other MAJOR digital enhancements. This makes it much more practical to construct an environment for recording. So slowly but surely I'm coupling together the components needed to produce high quality recordings.
The knowledge required to produce has changed quite a bit as well. Knowing how to get the most out of a Digital Audio Workstations (DAW) and plugins is a must. However, long standing techniques such as mic placement, compression, etc still hold true. Thankfully there is a huge repository of knowledge on the Internet, especially Youtube. You can find "how to's" for just about everything related to recording which is fantastic.
Over the past 5 years I've spent considerable time learning and becoming proficient at these techniques. It's a never ending quest for knowledge and maybe that's one of the reasons I enjoy it so much. Anyway, that's the brief history.
Now onto the present and future. I hope you'll follow me along the journey...
Best regards,
Fred
