Category: Recording Studio Stuff

The short list of what a recording setup really needs, in signal-chain order: room, microphone, interface, computer, monitoring, and what can wait.

What the evidence says about the money in a recording studio: where income and costs sit, what gear really costs you over time, and how to fund it.

Once you are in the studio: how to talk to the engineer, get a headphone mix you like, keep the pace, and use the time well. Tips from SOS writers.

Abbey Road shows how much a studio shapes the records made in it: purpose-built rooms, its own engineers and tools, and rules that the Beatles then bent.

Home or studio is not an either/or choice. Here is how a producer suggests splitting a project, and what an England survey says people actually do.

A walk-through checklist for visiting a recording studio: the control room, live room, equipment, headphones and the small things that sink sessions.