Nearly the end of work for 2009 and the start of 2 weeks of nothing but music making madness! (ok its already 2010 by the time I have finished writing this)

I thought I would describe my home “studio” to anyone who may be wondering what kind of stuff is needed to create music nowadays from home.

First off, I will show you what I wish my home studio looked like:

I wish my studio looked like this

and….

Or this...

At this time though my studio is comprised of 5 simple things namely:

At this point in time, you will not have heard any of my tracks because I have not put any of them anywhere. In due course though, I will start bombarding every available web avenue and social media platform until hopefully a label bites :)

In terms of instruments, effects and processors, I make use of the big names:

VST Instruments

Subtractive

  • LennarDigital – Sylenth1
  • Novation – Bass Station
  • Novation – V Station
  • ReFX –  Vanguard
  • Rob Papen – Predator
  • Fab Filter – Twin

Wavetable

  • Native Instruments – Massive

Harmonic Component Modelling

  • Tone 2 – Gladiator

Frequency Modulation

  • Native Instruments – FM8
  • Rgcaudio – Z3ta+

Percussive Synthesis and Sampling

  • Native Instruments – Battery 3 (Sampling)
  • Waldorf – Attack (Synthesis)

Orchestral

  • Miroslav Philharmonik

In terms of effects and processors, I am using a variety of stuff from SoundToys, Sonalksis, Waves, Flex Development Labs, FabFilter, PSP and Oxford. These comprise compressors, limiters, phase and frequency shifters, fancy filters ,gates, transient designers, expanders, multiband EQ and top class echoes, reverbs, delays, doublers, flangers and a million other things.

The thing that I have realized over the last 8 months since I started my music production journey is that your processors and effects are crucial to obtaining that professional sound but using the latest, greatest outboard gear is not.

Music theory is important but not as important as being spontaneous and learning as much about sound engineering and production techniques as you can.

I am not yet at the point where I have made a professional sounding track with all the polish that you would expect from a top tune but this year is the year!!

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