Is your audio interface good enough?
I don’t know about you, but I used to have one hell of a time capturing good sounds in my studio.
It was always a challenge achieving:
- Crisp live drum tracks that didn’t need to be COMPLETELY replaced with samples to sound halfway decent.
- Guitar tones that were both aggressive and clear (without annoying mud or fizz).
- Bass tones that were fat, well-defined and present enough to cut through (without getting in the way of everything else).
- Vocal tracks (especially screams) that don’t sound like complete crap.
It was annoying to say the least..
My productions sounded nothing like what favorite records sounded like.
Like most other people, I used to hunt for info online and, by far, the most common thing I’d hear is that:
“Cheap interfaces suck. They’re only good for budget recordings. You need high-end Apogee converters if you want a smooth, crisp sound. You need vintage *insert astronomically expensive brand* microphone preamps for that analog studio-quality warmth”.
…I guess my consumer-grade Digi002 and Presonus interfaces were just too “cheap” to achieve the polished professional sound I wanted so badly.
SO I THOUGHT.
Turns out I didn’t need to buy anything new…
I just needed to fully grasp and understand how audio actually works (and why most of these myths make absolutely no sense from a scientific standpoint).
In this video, I’ll tell you why your interface is more than good enough to produce the results that you hear on your favorite records. I don’t care how cheap or budget it is. If you bought it after the year 2004, you’re golden.
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