Make your own song

Professional Studio Monitors were very expensive these days until ATP3 came. ATP 3 was very ideal for a home songwriter/producer to monitor sounds in detail. It is not at all that good, there were some bad things about ATP3 like what other computer designed speakers. ATP3 is a complete piece of sound system, it has sub-woofer, treble and mid range speakers. The frequency of this speaker is wide from 45 - 18000 Hz, this allows home studio audio engineers to mix audio. As a rule in recording, mixing should be done with a sub-woofer because mistake in the absence of a sub-woofer can destroy the speakers because of excessive sub-frequency volume.Or in the other hand, it will result to such thin mix, in the absence of sub-sonic frequencies.

I can say that this speaker is versatile, in my home I use it in gaming, streaming’s, watching video and recording. It exceeds my expectations from the 1st time I set my plans in purchasing this speaker. One of the greatest advantages of this speaker aside from it’s versatility is superb sound quality. I have tested other type of speakers more expensive than this, and it just sounds the same. However, there were so much difference in quality for speakers lower the price of this one.

Here in Philippines, in 2004 I bought ATP 3 for around 4000 pesos and it is cheap already. Right now, it’s went down a little because of so many Altec Lansing speakers being released. I know the more expensive the better is the sound quality, maybe in the future I will purchase another Altec Lansing speaker ( a more modern one) but I will still kept my ATP 3 speaker. (more…)

Sound cards are particularly very important in sound recording done using a personal computer. Sound blaster Audigy Value was released commercially as an upgrade of the old Live! sound cards. They are quality sound cards very applicable to a home recording engineer doing home-based projects.

I will now give my detailed review on this sound card even though I am not an expert reviewer. I will divide my reviews into three parts: hardware installation, software installation, playback quality, recording quality, interface, compatibility/customer service and price. This is based on my experience.

Hardware installation:

It is very easy to install this on windows based computer. Since it is a PCI card, it can be easily inserted to any PCI slot making this card easy to be installed. Although Sound blaster did provide additional metals for installation, but it is useless when i installed my card. I think it belongs to other types of PC cases. So you have to check the manual or PC casing instructions. (more…)

I used Adobe Audition version 1.5 in my recording, mixing and mastering of audio tracks. I get this one since 2004 and this is one of the best audio software gears that I have.

(Photo above: Multi-track session view)

Basically, this software offers three major features:
a. Audio wave editing (Single audio wave recording)
b. Multi-track session recording
c. CD project session

I used only Audio wave editing and multi-track session recording features. The CD project session will be used only for special audio track burning purposes such as burning your final CD.

I will give my positive review on the above features one by one:

a. Audio wave editing view - of all the recording softwares I used, this is the only software that gives the best editing features. One of the editing features I really is the Noise reduction feature. This noise reduction feature enables the engineer to clean out the tracks such as removing background noise from the recording. Plus I find it very user friendly to use. Other important audio editing features are complete such as amplification of signal , compression, effects. One of the great features of this software is the batch editing feature, it means you have a single command for all audio editing work and have it done automatically. (more…)