Category: The Budget Studio

Audio Processing – Hog That CPU – UAD

If like me your CPU is shall we say a little on the outdated side then you’ll probably be looking at updating your pc. But what if you don’t have the moola or like me you simply can’t. ===Hang you say, why can’t you… I can’t for a few reasons, serial and parallel ports are […]

Studio Project £1000+

A few years ago I started building up the equipment in my project Studio here is the equipment list. At the hub is the PC. The desktop is my studio – it’s a 2ghz 2gb big baby(looks like a fridge) – specs (not the fastest, but it is setup to use every bit of its […]

Jargon Busting – Latency

Latency – is something you’ll hear a lot about. It is basically the delay in analogue sound being converted to digital. It works like this – analogue signal(mic/guitar) input – converts to digital in recording – output then converts back to digital – this can cause a delay. This delay can be seen in monitored […]

Getting Started

So ok, you’ve got your PC setup and you’ve chosen your Audio/Midi package. Where do you go from here? Well, first it’s an idea to setup your pc the best you can. Optimising your pc is the first step I would recommend – follow the link to an article here. —————> Next you need to […]

Recording and Midi

So you’ve decided on your setup, now you need the software to record – So far I’ve seen two packages available, both are free to use. Reaper – A multi track audio package – rewired, vst support – midi support. Reaper (www.cockos.com) – is an outstanding peice of kit – a 64 bit audio engine, […]