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Showing posts with label laptop home recording studio. Show all posts
Showing posts with label laptop home recording studio. Show all posts

Friday, 23 September 2011

Evolution MK-249C2


We went yesterday for car boot in Shootash and the weather
was fine.  There were only few people
around and we saw a group of Filipino as well and greeted each other
Mabuhay!  Now, as we roam around I saw a
keyboard and it caught my interest.  I
went and investigate and to my surprise it was a MIDI keyboard.  Not that I need it but I desperately want it
coz I haven’t got the chance to try and play around with a MIDI keyboard
before.  I saw them in the tele, youtube,
magazines and have read from some reviews but not actually fiddle around with
one. 

It was an Evolution MK-249C2 MIDI keyboard and being sold
for £25.  It’s a good bargain,
right?  So, I enquire if it fully
functional and what are the accessories that comes with it.  The man said “yes it fully functional, my son
owns it, we’re just moving house that’s why we are disposing some of our stuff
and the keyboard comes with this USB cable and an adaptor.”  I ask again, why does it need an adaptor, isn’t
USB bus powered?  He replied “yes it is
bus powered, but you can also use it with an external power supply”.  I negotiated for £15 pound and he said “£20,
last offer, coz if not I’m going to put this on ebay.”  Then, I bought it for £20. 

When I arrived home, I browse the net for reviews,
description, manual, etc. on how to go about with this Evolution MK-249C2 and
found a lot of helpful insights although some are not like they said the
software that comes with it is useless or it’s like a toy.  I wasn’t discouraged yet coz I haven’t plugged
it.  To my surprise, it is plug n’
play.  Lucky enough for me, I have
installed in my Laptop a software called Mixcraft 4 and it has virtual
instruments as MIDI and there it is MK-249C2 works and it’s brilliant.  Pretty soon I will post videos or perhaps
compose and record songs using this toy Evolution MK-249C2.








By: VRB

Home Recording Studio




In order to setup a home recording studio, here are the
equipments that I gathered. First off a laptop that was hand-me-down by my brother
and sister-in-law. Then, old earphones that was stuck in a cupboard. I bought
an electric guitar, cheap one and also bought some stuff online like
microphone, mic stand, amplifier and some leads. Also went to car boot and by
chance bought a used MIDI keyboard that is well functioning. Also there was an
old computer speaker that is working well that I sometimes use as monitor
speakers.


Now to start your own recording studio you must have all of the above meaning a descent laptop like mine Sony Vaio VGN-NS20E. Then, a
recording software, like Energy XT, which is what I’m using now. Pretty straight forward, very easy to use and most of all, it is multi-purpose.  You can use it live, mixing, recording, sequencing and even mastering. Then you need an audio interface. I am using Native Instruments Guitar Session Rig. A very nice one. It doesn’t matter whether it is USB or firewire. It all depends on how you use it and which one is within your budget and you’re comfortable with. Minimum requirement for your interface would be one mic input and one instrument input. I am using Shure C606 microphone. It is cheap but works well. Doesn’t sacrifice quality.  Again, it doesn’t matter if you opt to use condenser or cardioid. It is entirely up to you and your budget.

Now try your instruments as well as microphone, after
installing the software and plugging in your hardware i.e. DAW and Audio
Interface. Start recording your songs, edit, mix and save as wav or mp3
depending where you want to submit your songs.
Good luck.  For sample songs/music
of my home recording studio just check out these links. 


http://www.reverbnation.com/vincentryanborres
http://www.myspace.com/vincentryanborres
http://www.youtube.com/09mindthegap



By: Vincent Ryan Borres