The Stereo Bus Blog - Daily Music Production Tips

This post focuses on an idea I’ve had for a while: a rolling station that can be moved easily around the studio to ease tracking difficulty when working alone.

One problem that I’ve run into is that, when working in a studio setup that includes a control room and a tracking room, it becomes very difficult to track in the tracking room by yourself.  Changing preamp settings, controlling the DAW, and monitoring all get complicated when working alone.  For a while now I’ve had an idea to create a rolling station to add on to my standard DAW setup.

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This post focuses on how to reduce the noise produced by gear, thus producing cleaner recordings.

Anyone who has worked on audio with a typical desktop PC gets to know the hum and fan noise of their PC very well.  There are lots of different ways to get a quieter environment, from moving the equipment to custom silencing solutions.

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This post focuses on describing MIDI - what it is and what it does.

Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) was created in 1983 to address the need for controlling instruments electronically.  As synthesizers grew more and more common, it became more and more difficult to control them all.  MIDI was created to allow musicians to control many devices from one ‘controller’ keyboard.  It was also created with a number of relatively robust features to aid in the creation of digital music.

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