Starsound Studios is offering a free Hip Hop - Rap music studio open house Saturday August 7th, 2021 and once a month after that.

Introducing the hip hop rap music open house at Starsound Studios. Come learn about recording hip hop music in a professional studio setting. Have your questions answered by a professional engineer and collaborate with other similar minded artists. Topics can include:

What is a vocal comp and why should I do it? Why would you use Waves Torque plugin? What LUFS standard goes with which social media platform and why is that important? I shouldn't use an MP-3? What is a reference track?

Come to our open house once a month on Saturdays from 1 to 3pm. Get free information, collaborate, network, and stop overpaying for your recording and getting very little in return.

How to record guitar. We will show you our step by step process of how to record guitar so that you can reproduce those steps at home. Or, you can let us handle the recording for you. Recording guitars start with dialing in the tone of the amplifier in the air. This process is individual to each guitarist. The idea is to get the sound they enjoy while standing in front of the amp and listening.

Once that is achieved, the second step of how to record guitar is getting the headphone mix right. This is an essential step because that is how a guitarist will monitor their playing. It is vital for that part to be done right as the recording will suffer otherwise.

The next component of how to record guitar is making sure that your console monitor speakers are in your mastering stage. All of the plugins and analog gear have to be engaged. If you dial a sound in without this step, engaging it later will alter what you have decided was a good guitar sound. This step is critical. Monitor with a limiter on. We send audio out to a summing box and to outboard gear. That signal chain must be active. It could be detrimental to your recording otherwise.

How To Record Acoustic Guitars? If you are not going direct, it is all about mic placement. Place the microphone too close to the soundhole, and you will get more body because of the proximity effect. Set the mic closer to the neck, and you will get more sparkle. You will get more direct acoustic guitar sound and less room the closer the microphone gets to the acoustic guitar. You will get more room sound farther away. What do you do?

How To Record Acoustic Guitars? In comes the Dynamount X1-R. It will allow you to move the microphone along the sound source in real-time while you are in the sweet spot listening to the result. As soon as you find the perfect place, you can save it as a preset and keep experimenting. It is an ideal tool for capturing excellent sound and lets you get the best mic positions.

How to record bass guitar you ask? Microphone placement is key. We use a Dynamount to robotically move a microphone along the bass cabinet in real time. This enables us to sit in the sweet spot of the speakers and listen to the bass tone while the microphone is moving across the cabinet. Stop when you find the tone you need.