This document provides information about setting up a recording studio, including necessary equipment like a computer, DAW software, microphone, headphones and speakers. It discusses soundproofing a room using acoustic elements like absorbers and diffusers. The recording process is outlined starting with separate tracking of instruments and vocals, then mixing and mastering to balance levels and frequencies and make other adjustments in the DAW.

1. A RECORDING STUDIO

2. THE STUDIO
Design
• The desing of the recording studio, doesn’t have a fixed estructure
• The only things that you need are:
• Computer
• DAW (record/edit)
• Microphone
• Headphones
• Few speakers

3. COMPUTER DAW
MICROPHONE
HEADPHONES
SPEAKERS

4. Programs to edit and record
6. Audacity
1. Pro Tools
2. Cubase
3. Adobe Audition
4. Sonar 8
5. Fl Studio

5. Soundproofing cabin
• A soundproofing cabin is a room wich the sound doesn’t return from
anywhere.
• The most important thing to have a good soundproofing is to have one
thing, acustic elements.
• There are differents types of those acoustic elements:
› Standard absorbent
› Severe absorbent
› Diffusers
› Another type

6. RECORDING
Record
Edit
Mixing
Mastering

7. In this part, each instrument is recorded separately and then combined
into a “mixture”.
1. Acompaniment: Metronome.
2. Rhythm: Drums/low.
3. Harmonics: Rhythm guitar, piano, synthesizer, etc.
4. Melodies: Voice and guitar solos.
5. Color: Choir, percussion acompaniment, piano, sound effects.

8. To change any imperfection
or something else, we must
use the DAW.
1. Achieve a balance
2. Panning
3. Levelling
4. Compression
5. Reverb
6. Automation
1. Loudness
2. Maximizer
3. Balancing
4. Frequencies
5. Stereo extension