Welcome everyone to the launching pad & springboard of the Home Studio Resource. Here, until I have enough to compile a huge actual resource for something like an interactive app or textbook, I will simply write articles of things I know will help the aspiring home producer (that's you!), save time, money and... dignity! Yes, you read it correctly... I am here to help you save some FACE! Being that I have fallen on mine enough times in the Pro Audio world, why not pass on the knowledge for posterity, right?
Thanks for not arguing.
Mainly, after more than 20 years in the music profession in one way or another, I have started this for two reasons. The first is that while searching and searching, most web info on home producing (not all of it, just most of it) is way over the top, way too wrong or just terribly presented. Period. And it's just too much to sift through for the average guy in the hope of a nugget you need to finish that demo in your basement before the show next week, you know? Information is so spread out, you may get one good article here and one good video there, yet in between is a bunch of nonsense that ruins them both! Not to mention that next to bad or hard to find info, our great, free enterprise world has another down side: amateurism! This means that good info is lost in terrible presentation (won't get into it now, but I know we've seen it).
And this ignorance always costs people money. Much needed money that is too often, for example, spent on a mic that is only half as good as a mic that cost less than half the price! Yes... it happens every day because of hype and ignorance. The infamous duo of good production. But how could one know? Well, that's what I am trying to help us all out with here.
Second, I am doing this for myself. I love music and love production. Hands down, it's what I want to do with my life. But I still have so much to learn. And as I teach what I have know so far, share and get feedback about all this stuff from others who know it and who have been learning and practicing it, I grow in my field, just like you! And my resources are great, too. Not only can I get great the latest software and even some hardware to review and learn from, I also get to rub elbows with some seasoned pros as well as people who come up with the latest, most resourceful ideas that can help others save time and money!
So please feel free to write back and comment, critique (even on my writing, please) so we can refine this whole thing to the best it can be so all of our music sounds pro and so we don't go broke producing it! (hear, hear!) We can debate and argue all we want, as long as in the end, we stay to the cardinal vurtues of HSRL: Sound pro & save money!
And now, to start this thing going...
Sincerely,
Alvin Zamudio
Founder, musician, composer, producer & head writer guy.
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