Birth of the Studio...
I decided to convert the other 'sorta unused' room in my house into a mini recording studio. I know that its going to involve a lot of time but atleast time well spent towards the noble cause of having fun ;)
Now, I found a really cool thingy that is going to solve a lot of problems with my guitar playing at home. JamLab by m-audio. This cool piece of equipment + software lets you just plug-in your guitar into the device and use GT player to record and apply patches in real-time on the computer. Of course, more than the patching and so on, I'm interested in being able to play a song from, say, an MP3 slowly (without altering the pitch) and play-along with it and help record easily.
and its just $79 for what it lets you do!
Right now, here's how my first few steps in the studio-building effort look:
Now, I found a really cool thingy that is going to solve a lot of problems with my guitar playing at home. JamLab by m-audio. This cool piece of equipment + software lets you just plug-in your guitar into the device and use GT player to record and apply patches in real-time on the computer. Of course, more than the patching and so on, I'm interested in being able to play a song from, say, an MP3 slowly (without altering the pitch) and play-along with it and help record easily.
and its just $79 for what it lets you do!
Right now, here's how my first few steps in the studio-building effort look:
- Buy JamLab.
- Move the desktop to the other "studio-to-be" room.
- Buy a decent audio monitor to connect to the desktop. I would ideally like to buy the M-Audio Studiophile BX8a speakers. But for time being, I'm gonna aim at Behringer MS20. Of course, I gotta figure out the shipping, etc.,. and its gonna take a lot of time. Maybe, given that I record in the nights, I'm not even gonna bother about speakers for a while. My headphones will do.
For now, JamLab... here I come!
Someday I will probably be able to sound-proof the room and do the necessary changes to get it to a near-studio quality setup (assuming, my folks will be okay with me destroying parts of the walls and drilling holes into the walls and so on ;) )