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  • USB MIDI Pad Controllers  By : RapManual
    Some beatmakers who use software strictly for their beats also are slightly envious of some aspect of hardware. Drum pads are universally liked.
  • Synthesizers In Hip Hop Music  By : RapManual
    Synths are like highly customizable sound modules with keys (not all the time included however). Unlike midi keyboards, they do include a sound creation system inside, but they are both similar in that they do not generally have built in speaker systems built into them.
  • A Sampler Workstations Place In Your Studio  By : RapManual
    A sampler is a piece of equipment that is able to load custom audio sounds into it's memory in addition to it's own stock sounds. High quality samplers in the music production workstation type can also allow you to alter the sample in various ways.
  • MIDI Keyboard Controllers  By : RapManual
    You know all the inner and outer workings of programs like FruityLoops, Reason, GarageBand and Logic. In fact, you consider yourself a pro.
  • Lighting In A Home Studio  By : RapManual
    Without the proper lighting, you may have to strain your eyes on unforgiving backlighted CRT or LCD visual monitor screen for excessive periods of time. A quick solution is to look outside a window or turn away, but that if your room has no lighting?
  • Keyboard Workstations  By : RapManual
    A keyboard workstation is much more than a electric modern piano in condensed form. A workstation allows you to compose your beats in any fashion you choose, running as it's own production studio center.
  • Keyboard Sound Modules  By : RapManual
    A sound modules is a piece of equipment, usually able to fit on a rack mount, that contains a collection of sounds either in sample or high quality audio format.
  • Drum Machines In A Home Studio  By : RapManual
    A drum machine is unlike a keyboard in that the buttons are arranged horizontal as usual or in a square matrix instead of only horizontal.
  • Big Drums: Does Size Matter?  By : Victor Epand
    A summary of the three largest types of drums used today, the bass drum, the timpani drum and taiko drumming's odaiko drum.
  • Control Surface  By : RapManual
    Software companies that make music production programs know that some hardcore analog junkies hate the fact that computers have little going for them in the case of an interactive interface.
  • Famous (And Infamous) Artists Of The Electric Guitar  By : Victor Epand
    A review of four of the most famous and infamous electric guitarists in rock and roll, their personalities and their accomplishments.
  • The Therapy Of The Drum  By : Victor Epand
    An explanation of what music therapy is, why drums are used in it and the various ways in which they are used, especially pertaining to drum circles.
  • Beat Maker Contracts  By : RapManual
    When it comes down to the time when you want to sell your beats you must have the proper contracts. Yes, this should be a part of your studio in a folder put away, even if it collects dust. Hey, anything can happen, P. Diddy could come knocking at your door, although Bad Boy Records contracts with their musicians are considered to be sometimes "questionable".
  • The History Of Printed Sheet Music  By : Victor Epand
    A summary of printed sheet music's evolution from the advent of the printing press, to the height of sheet music's importance, to its eventual fall from common use.
  • Seven-String Guitars: A Niche Instrument  By : Victor Epand
    An explanation of how the extra string on a seven-string guitar can be attached and a history of the instrument.
  • Bongo Drums And Latin Culture  By : Victor Epand
    An overview of the importance of bongo drums in Latin music and an explanation of the instruments' evolution from African roots.
  • Patch Bay In A Music Studio  By : RapManual
    Keep yourself organized with a patch bay. One day you'll come to find that all your cables and cords are all mangled and you don't know which is which or what they do and you're constantly tripping over them.
  • Office Chair In A Music Studio  By : RapManual
    Your most important piece of furniture is not your computer studio desk. Well, it is for your equipment. For your health, the office chair is the most important piece of furniture.
  • Studio Monitors  By : RapManual
    No, this type of monitor doesn't show DVDs or Windows Vista and you can't have Xzibit put them on the back of the headrests of your 2014 Cadillac CTSWTFLOL on 35 inch rims. In the audio community, professional grade speakers are called studio monitors.
  • Monitor Stands  By : RapManual
    Your desk may be too small or crowded to pack some heavy monitors on there, which probably wouldn't be heard correctly anyway with your hand, headphones, keyboard, mouse, swisher sweet, blunt wraps, zig zags, bongs, 40 ounce bottle, and 70 pound platinum chain in front of them (Man, how I want one of those big-ass chains...)
  • Mixing Board Stand  By : RapManual
    First ask yourself, do you really need a mixer stand or is the money just burning in your pocket? If you took my advice and bought a studio desk you wouldn't even be facing this question right now. A standard studio desk costs $99.99.
  • Lyric Stand In A Studio  By : RapManual
    There is something that all human beings on this planet Earth cannot do and have not done since the history of man. It is for one person to be able to use more than two hands (Feet are not a substitute for hands, we are not monkeys) at the same time.
  • Book Of Rhymes  By : RapManual
    So you stole your little brothers school work paper and wrote your lyrics on them, now your brother is failing his class and your mom is bitchin' at you. Or "you" are the one in school and you write lyrics all over and the back of your worksheet assignment only to become depressed when you have to turn it in for grading.
  • Studio Headphones  By : RapManual
    Headphones will be needed if you live in a claustrophobically closed-in residential area, if volume is an issue , you live in an apartment complex, your mom and pops is in the bedroom next door, if you just want to hear the minor imperfections of your recording that you couldn't catch out loud, or if you are proud of your work aka conceited.
  • Multi-Track Recorder  By : RapManual
    You might hate the touch of a computer and it's unforgiving cold sound, the way it's fan blows, the way the backlit pixels on the screen hurts your eyes, how you must constantly use that evil mouse or headache causing trackpad. Most of all, you just don't wanna work on the damn computer, basically you want to go more of an analog way with a external multi-track recorder aka audio workstation.
  • Dynamic Microphones  By : RapManual
    Dynamic microphones are the most sturdy stage microphones that people use for performances and announcements. These microphones can be used with or without foam mic covers, can be thrown on the ground, beaten with a whip and still work perfect (Although you may need to replace it's removable wire-mesh crown).
  • Condenser Microphones  By : RapManual
    Condenser microphones are the delicate cousins of dynamic microphones. These can break easily with aggressive use and are not meant to be handled by your hands as you speak into it, so don't grab them and wild-out like it's a dynamic or thats your however-many-hundred-dollar mistake.
  • Computer In A Music Studio  By : RapManual
    Your computer is the main cog in the clockwork of a home studio. A slow or outdated computer can lead to latency issues, the inability to run current professional audio-editing software, small insufficient RAM, no hard-drive space to put your gigantic .wavs and multiple MP3s on and much more.
  • Cables And Adapters In A Music Studio  By : RapManual
    Not everything plugs in right, just like not every cinderella shoe fits a bubble butt brazilian female, or every rapper can sing (scratchy voice rappers, please stop singing, leave it to the females) For example if you went along with some cheapo headphones you're gonna have to pay to plug it in your new audio interface or soundcard.
  • Acoustic Foam In A Music Studio  By : RapManual
    Acoustic foam is a specialized foam material used to absorb large quantities of noise. You use acoustic foam to treat the audio rooms and for your equipment. Bass trapping foam may be used for your monitors, foam may be placed around your microphone to deaden sounds around it.

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