Studio Gear

Studio Gear is a facility for sound recording and mixing. Studio Gear may be used to record musicians, voice over artists for advertisements or dialogue replacement in television, film, animation or to record their accompanying musical sound tracks. This is usually done in a room called the studio or live room, where instrumentalists and vocalists can make music with ease.


Studio Gear is carefully designed around the principles of room acoustics to generate a set of spaces with the acoustical properties required for recording sound with accuracy and exactness. This will consist of both room treatment and sound proofing to avoid sound from leaving the property.


Studio Gear consists of equipments such as:

• Microphones
• Reference monitors
• Mixing console
• Multi track recorder
• Keyboard
• Acoustic drum kit
• Music workstation
• Digital audio workstation

Studio Gear consists of Home recording equipments. Home Recording is the practice of recording in a private home, other than in a professional recording studio. A studio set up for home recording is called a project studio or home studio. Home recording is practiced by singer song writers, indie bands, documentarians, podcasters and so on. The cost of audio equipment has been dropping steadily in recent years, and information about recording techniques has become increasingly accessible due to the internet. These trends have resulted in a spectacular enlarge in the popularity of home recording, and a change in the recording industry toward recording in the home studio.


It consists of recording device, speakers and input devices. Until the late 1970s, music could be recorded moreover on low-quality tape recorders or on large, expensive reel to reel tape machines. Due to their high price and particular nature, reel-to-reel machines were only practical for professional studios.  In the year of 1990s, analog tape machines were displaced by digital recorders and computer based digital audio workstations. Now you just need a computer and recording interface.

Software applications are more dependent on the audio recording hardware than the computer they are running; therefore, typical high-end computer hardware is less of a priority unless midi is involved. If no mixing console is used and all mixing is done using only a keyboard and mouse, this is referred to as mixing in the box. "OTB" is used when mixing with other hardware not just the PC software.