Choose Your Poison

Found this killer site where you can hear recordings of any microphone you can imagine. The best part about it--you choose the instrument or even a male or female voice that you'd like to hear recorded. This is great for people like me who have limited resources as far as actually listening to the sounds these microphones capture in a studio environment. Looks like my search for an affordable microphone that is good for acoustic guitar and vocals isn't as limited as I thought. Check out this site!

Home Studio, Here I Come!

Some of you may know that I have been working on recording a Spanish-language worship cd for the past semester. I am recording everything here in my apartment, and it has been a wonderful opportunity to acquire new gear to develop my home studio (which is really just beginning). A few months ago I picked up Sonar Producer 8 recording software (which I highly recommend as it is very user friendly and very complete). My newest additions to the studio are these bad boys:

They are Yamaha HS50M's and, so far, I am blown away by their clarity and accuracy. I highly recommend these affordable, quality studio monitors to any sound-engineer/musician with any sort of smaller project studio. Hope to get some pictures up soon of some of the recording process as well as my little studio set-up.

Now, if I could just get some more microphones...