So create music at home

this is "the wind cries mary"-cover from jimi hendrix. But you can see the plugins i recommended to you! Sounds good, doesn't it? So it isn't that hard to make good sounding music at home. All you need is knowledge,right software and right plugins.


Equipment for this song and plugins used:
- Fender Stratocaster American Vintage '57 -
- Ik multimedia Amplitube VST (amp simulation processor) -
- EzDrummer VST (drum) -
- Cubase SX 3 (sequencer) -
- Reason (NNXT bass) -

the drum machine

I love bands like Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Ten Years After, Cream, Deep purple, the kinks, the Yardbirds or Black Sabbath. And they have all one thing in common. Vintage drumsounds. There are a few ways to emulate or copy the drum sound of this era with analoge tapes or compressors, but one very easy way to do it is with Toontracks Vintage Rock EZX Plugin. So check it out. Was your first thought also "whole lotta love?". So check it out. Very usefull plugin for every homerecording studio.

Some more good news!

I'm a guitarist, so I'm very interested in guitar amps and how they sound. But unfortunately I haven't that big budget on my side to play with these amps and have that sound i want to have live. But I can have it on my records. I'm using Native Instruments Guitar Rig since the first version and it was amazing. It's very easy to use and very comfortable just to mess around a little bit with the guitar sound in your song. Before I choose the sound of my guitar on the track i try some possibilities and I do NOT have to record it again with another amp. So this is Guitar Rig. So check it out! Very useful software and plugin for your home-recording studio!

But guess what? there are other programs too. I also like to use a Plugin called "Amplitube". I prefer it when i want a little bit distorted sound or little bit overdirven sound or a really clean sound or even to emulate the sound of Jimi Hendrix in Amplitube's Jimi Hendrix Edition. So check out these program.

And as always there's also free stuff like these programs. I relly like Guitar Rig and Amplitube and stuff like that, but if you want to try some programs like these or don't know really if you need plugins like these try the demos of these programs first or download Freeamp (as in the name) for free. Just google for Freeamp.It should look like this here! Have fun!

Time for some Plugins!

Really good delays and reverbs are coming from hardware. But if you don't want to buy some expensive effectrag you could easily create delays and reverbs with Plugins. BUT there are a lot of delays and reverbs out there - and many of them aren't good. Delay isn't delay and reverb isn't reverb. One of my favourite alltime effect package is for free, and it's amazing. Fantastic plugins with a lot of presets. You want to give more room to the drums? no problem, just add the "drum room"- setting to the channel of your drums and thats it. Your looking for a good phaseshifting effect or want a flanger on your guitar track? No problem at all. And DO check out the Compressor!

Check out this site: http://www.kjaerhusaudio.com/

you can get all this free plugins here: http://www.kjaerhusaudio.com/download.php

Hope you'll enjoy these Plugins!

FL Studio 9 will be released in september

FL studio 9 will be released in September. I've recommended this DAW a few posts before. So If you're still searching for a DAW try FL studio (formerly known as Fruity Loops). You can download demos all over the net. Version 9 is a full functionable DAW station for all kind of music. It's pattern-based so often prefered for electronic music, but it's also very useful for rock and pop productions and homerecording. You cannot play drums? so FL Studio will do it for you, record your tracks, import it to FL studio, open the drum machine and start editing the drums for your song.

When i mean drums i don't mean this 90s electro cumputer drums, i mean real sounding drums. You can import Vsti's very easily into FL so it shouldn't be a big deal to load for example Toontracks EZ Drummer Vintage Rock into Fl Studio and start producing a cool sounding rock-song. Give FL Studio a chance, you will love it. Very easy to handle, very good workflow and very easy to produce music with it. That's all folks

Start your homerecordings with a bundle less than 200 bucks!

There are a lot of Bundles for home-recording newbies out there. you can easily start producing with equipment that costs 200 bucks and less. But you should attach important to a bundle that contains an interface with at least 2 input channels, with +48V Phantom Power, headphones and a mic. Sometimes these bundels contain also a recording software which goes perfect along with the interface of the bundle. If you don't need a mic and headphones and you already work with a DAW you have choosen, it makes sense to buy just an interface you like. The interface is very important, i would call it the heart of all your in future recorded songs.

Audacity - the free, open source audio recording and editing software

"Audacity® is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems."

I use Cubase as I've said, but I want to present Audacity because it's free. So before you start to buy a non-free DAW you can try Audacity and experiment around. All Digital Audio Workstations are similar, so if you work a little with Audacity you get familiar with the DAW of your choice.
The quality of the sound isn't reliant on the DAW you use, but on the interface, the mics and the instruments you're working with. Audacity is a very good software to start with. So plug-in your guitar or bass or whatever you want and start to record and get behind the techniques of recording step by step.
If you want so, you can upload it to kompoz, as i've proposed in the last post.

http://audacity.sourceforge.net/