Choosing the best studio recording equipment

Different studios record artists and bands, voice overs and the music for TV shows, commercials, cartoons and movies. Every kind of studio recording equipment is housed in the control room of a studio where all kinds of manipulations and routings of the sound are done by the experts. Some of the audio recording equipments that are commonly used in recording studios are:

Mixing consoles

Multi track recorders

Microphones

Reference monitors that are loudspeakers with flat frequency response

Digital audio workstation

Music workstation

Outboard effects like compressors, equalizers and reverbs

Mixing console or audio mixer is very important studio recording equipment used for routing, combining and changing the level, dynamics and timbre of the audio signals. Different types of mixing consoles can mix digital and/or analog signals and it can be used in different applications such as public address systems, broadcasting, film post production, television and sound reinforcement systems. Multi track recorders allow creating a single cohesive whole with the help of several separate sources of sound. Multi track recorders can be analog, tape based or hard disk based and often need an audio recording software and a computer system as an audio recording equipment. Big professional recording studios use computers for synchronizing multiple 24 track machines, multiplying the amount of available tracks into hundreds.

Microphones or mikes are acoustic to electric transducers or sensors which are able to convert sounds into electrical signals. Not only in recording studios, the microphones are also used in telephones, hearing aids, motion pictures, tape recorders, television and radio broadcasting and recorded audio engineering. Reference monitors or studio monitors are loudspeakers that are especially designed for applications of audio production such as film, radio, television and recording studios. Digital audio workstations are electronic systems designed for recording, editing and playing digital audio. One of the best features of digital audio workstations is that they can freely manipulate the recorded sounds. A music workstation is an audio recording equipment that provides the facilities of a music sequencer, a musical keyboard and a sound module. With the help of this studio recording equipment, the musicians can easily compose electronic music with the help of just a single audio recording equipment.