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Master engineer at Sonic Orb Studios

Good weighted keyboards are expensive. The Yamahas seem decent to me, though I'm not a pianist. A good mike for your wife… for home recording, don't go nuts and drop a bundle on a Sennheiser. They are good mikes, but in the world of digital recording, I think your basic Sure SM-58 is the way to go.

Here is some advice for you that I think you will find valuable.

1. If you are going to be using your computer to do the recording, of course Pro-Tools is the industry standard. But it is very hardware intensive. Logic is more affordable and doesn't require that you have gigantic processing power at your command.

2. One of the biggest problems you are going to encounter is noise. Either background noise like refrigerator hum, ground loop hum, street sounds that filter in. Keep all your equipment away from powerful motors like refrigerator motors… make sure you have at least one well insulated wall between you and such noise sources.

3. Be careful with your wires. A lot of noise, digital cross-talk and ground hum comes from sound cables knotted, jumbled or running too close to power cables. Keep the audio cables unmessy and away from motors, power sources and eletrical boxes. This is a very important thing. Plan your space around it.

4. Don't do any recording in front of a CRT type computer screen. If for any reason your computer has to be in the same space as the sounds you are recording, get a flat LCD type screen. CRT's make huge amounts of digital noise and interference.

5. If you are planning on doing a lot of mixing post production, and you are looking for a handy utility program to help with this, download Audacity from Soundforge.com. It's free and enormously useful.

6. Have a computer dedicated to music production, with huge amounts of ram and rom, and stay on top of back-up and clearing out old tracks that you do not have immediate use for. Music files are huge… especially if you are working at 24 bit and more, which you should, for the sake of quality and tonal warmth. Don't use the same computer for online work, or to do some other very memory intensive work like digital graphics. Have your music computer be that and that only.

Home recording is a lot of fun, and if you put the time into study, you can create really nice sounding files.

If you want more information, drop into my website rubbadukki.net, drop me an email there and I'll be happy to help you get your feet set right on this path.
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