When I was a student, playing the guitar in several bands was a wonderful hobby. Later the continued experience of bringing together only two musicians under one common umbrella and of course family & professional life made me almost forget the blisters on my fingers. Still unforgetable remains the supreme discipline during those rocking days- some of our professionally made records.   Until the 1990s, the equipment and expertise required for sound recording meant that aside from the fortunate few who could afford to spend hundreds of thousands of Euros on a professional home studio, most musicians remained married to the commercial (and expensive) studio. Picture: Alesis MultiMix8 USB

With the digital revolution recording became cheaper, versions of Pro Tools are available for less than EUR 500, the age of bedroom studios started. 

The Digital Age is upon us. . .  
Since digital recorders  have become so inexpensive, commonplace and easy to use, this technology has almost completely replaced analog tape recorders in home studios. We have become accustomed to signal to noise ratios of 85dB or better in even the cheapest CD or MiniDisc player, a spec which was obtainable only in professional studios only a decade or two ago. Consequently, the importance of maintaining a clean signal path has become ever more important for the musician recording at home. Today homerecording allows clean, low noise recordings, even in the home recording rig.  

The beginning. . .  
Honestly this amazing development surprised me quite a lot,as in the early beginning home recording seemed to be only for techies and teenagers messing around with drum loops. Today I am using a twin system, the Tascam 2488 
all-in-one harddisk recorder and more and more the PC with Steinbergs Cubase SE, running a M-Audio 2496 sound card providing a DAC (digital to analog convertion) at a sampling rate of 96kHz max. 
As I am usually recording track by track myself, also pre-amplifiaction requirements and the management of various audio sources are perfectly met with the low cost Alesis Multimix 8 - which could also act as a 44,1 kHz samping rate DAC.

Some words about Cubase SE Working for some months with this software now I still cannot stop wondering. For less than 150 EUR you get a powerful tool for composing, recording, editing and mixing for Audio + MIDI sources, including some first powerful Virtual Instruments and Effects. Talking about those months you will understand that it is pretty time consuming to learn and experience most of the features provided if you have not worked on similar platforms before.

BFD "The drumset" The original ground-breaking premium acoustic drum module. Containing 9GB of pristine acoustic drum samples recorded at a top LA studio - with every drum recorded with 11 different mic positions and multiple velocities. Build your custom kit, position your mics, create your groove and mix the results. Complete control within an intuitive and powerful interface.

Work in progress:
What is the outcome? As I dont want to bother someone with my "own" productions you can find some more "easy listening" samples below by clicking the links - A tribute to the 1960 "The Shadows" 

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