| New Orleans is a major U.S. port of entry in the | | | | All rooms in a recording studio may have a |
| American South. It boasts large industries, many | | | | reconfigurable combination of reflective and |
| museums and world-famous seafood restaurants. The | | | | non-reflective surfaces, to control the amount of |
| annual Mardi Gras is perhaps the best-known festival | | | | reverberations. |
| of New Orleans. Music, dance, and theater are part of | | | | Working Of a Recording Studio: |
| people's lives here. New technology has refined the | | | | A professional recording studio has an isolation booth |
| music to a truly wondrous experience. A good | | | | along with a control and a live room. All these rooms |
| recording studio contributes to good-quality music. A | | | | are soundproof and insulated from external sounds. |
| few tips to help you start on your small business of | | | | For recording the distortion-free sound of musical |
| setting up a recording studio are described below. | | | | instruments, these are kept behind a see-through |
| What Comprises a Recording Studio: | | | | Plexiglas gobo panel. It deflects the sound and keeps it |
| A recording studio is a soundproof room designed | | | | from bleeding into the other microphones, allowing |
| around the principles of room acoustics to record | | | | more control of each instrument at the mixing board. |
| sound with precision and accuracy. The material used | | | | The soundproof rooms and multi-track recording |
| on the room's surfaces absorbs and diffuses the | | | | equipment have made it possible to record instruments |
| sound. It may have an extra room designed for voice | | | | and singers separately, at different times on different |
| recording called a vocal room. Normally, it consists of | | | | tracks, on a multi-track tape. A 2-inch analog tape is |
| three rooms: | | | | capable of containing 24 individual tracks. An audio mix |
| 1. Studio or "live room." Here the sound for the | | | | is set up on a 24-track tape machine to record |
| recording is created. | | | | combined signals to print on master tape. Analog tapes |
| 2. Control room. Here the sound from the studio is | | | | capture sound waves in entirety, while digital recorded |
| recorded and manipulated. | | | | audio made on mixing console gives an illusion of solid |
| 3. Machine room. Here the noisier equipment that may | | | | sound waves. |
| interfere with the recording process is kept. The | | | | Individual artists can use a project or home studio with |
| equipment includes:o Mixing console.o Multitrack | | | | multitrack recorders, synthesizers, and microphones to |
| recorder.o Microphones.o Reference monitors or | | | | make inexpensive digital hard disk recording products. |
| loudspeakers with flat frequency response.o Digital | | | | A keyboard can be used as highly realistic instrumental |
| Audio workstation.o Music workstationo Compressors, | | | | accompaniment. |
| reverbs or equalizers for outboard effects. | | | | |