Home studios are increasingly gaining strength and today represent an important share of the market. This is due to the advancement of technologies and their increasing accessibility.
More than a cheap alternative, home recording methods – mostly characterized by the use of inferior quality equipment – started to be incorporated as an aesthetic language of musical genres in high among generation Z, such as lo-fi and bedroom . pop.
Success stories such as Billie Eilish and Rex Orange County, who achieved stardom with productions and recordings in their own home studios, have generated this frequent question in the musician today: is it still worth investing in a recording in a professional studio?
Here are five reasons to consider when making the decision to record your songs/disc, which can convince you to opt for Milestone Music Recording Studio Cape Town:
1 – Experience
In most cases where a musician hires the services of a professional studio, one of the factors that most influence him in the decision making is the search for the experience in the studio environment.
Regardless if they are few days, there is always the expectation on the part of the musician to experience everything that a professional studio can add to the process of recording a record, whether in the technical or emotional aspect.
Enjoying high-end equipment, similar or even the same models that your idols used in the past, is certainly something inspiring and enriching for any musician. For many, even, an artist’s career is divided into two great moments: the stage and the studio, both generate memories for a lifetime and great learning.
If we think of the record as a record for all eternity, it is worth considering investing in the most appropriate structure and in the best possible environment for the development of your talent and the improvement of your music with the quality it deserves.
2 – Sound engineer and experienced professionals
Even with the democratization of knowledge provided by the internet and the ease of obtaining information these days, practice is always essential to forge a good professional.
An experienced sound engineer can greatly influence the final result of the recording if well directed by the music producer or by the musician himself, when there is a well-defined vision of where he wants to go.
The capture stage is crucial and when poorly executed there is no mix to solve it. It is also the starting point for the development of the artistic language of music or of the record, as each musical genre has its specificities and tricks. Therefore, it is important to look for a studio with professionals who have experience and master the musical style you want for your compositions.
3 – High level equipment
The equipment is the basis of a good studio: computers to record, process and manipulate the audio, converters (to convert the signal from analog to digital), mixer, reference monitors, preamps, compressors, equalizers, cabling and microphones are some of the determining components in the final result of recording a disc.
In more traditional musical genres such as MPB, Jazz and R&B, the fidelity of capturing and processing the audio is extremely important to achieve the expected result.
4 – Professional acoustic treatment
A good acoustic design gives the studio a lively yet balanced sound. Therefore, it is necessary to take into account a series of acoustic phenomena that only a specialist in the field is able to solve or avoid, such as reverberation time, standing waves and the metallic sound effect (Flutter Echo).
Underestimating the acoustics of an environment and the impact it can have on recording an album is certainly a gross mistake. The truth is that even with good equipment it is not possible to reverse the damage caused by a room with unbalanced ambient sound.
Correctly combining the concepts of absorption and diffusion of sound waves is what is sought in an acoustic treatment. Eliminate room reverb, as long as reflections are kept controlled through diffusers so as not to “kill” your ambient sound.
