Welcome to Home Recording Methods
This site contains step-by-step guides to recording and mixing music at home. Each step is accompanied by a sample.
You will not need any expensive equipment to achieve the quality of these recordings. In fact, most of what is shown here can be done for free!
Check out this recording - The only recording equipment used was Line 6 Guitarport and a basic computer.
Using the guides on this site should help you to get the best out of your equipment and make some suprisingly good recordings. So check out the articles.
Recent articles:
- Modern Metal Drums
Creating and mixing drum tracks. Covers samples, compression, eq, reverb, mixing.
- Heavy guitar
Recording and mixing heavy guitar. Covers pre-recording, recording, effects and techniques, mixing.
- Bass guitar
Recording and mixing bass guitar. Recording direct, effects and mixing.
- Mastering
Mastering guide. Covers EQ, FX, how to get loud output volume (loudness maximisation).