Bedroom Recordings - Recording Environment from 2023

I feel that machine translation has really evolved recently.
The accuracy is so high that it motivates me to try to write English articles like this. Frankly, it's terrifying.

I've accumulated a number of inquiries about something I'd like to know about. I don't think they want to know that much. I don't have any equipment that makes me an artist. I'm really wonderfully poor. Oh, someone give me money. I'm not interested in a lot of money, but I'd rather just sing and live and die.

Equipments

Audio Interface

I am using an Audient id14mk2. I liked the sound of the first model, but its successor was compatible with the USB-C standard. However, I could not use it in the way I was looking for, so I should have bought the id4, which is one rank lower. Depending on what kind of music you want to make, I don't really see the point of buying a higher-end device for guitar and bass recording, thanks to the benefits of technological advancements.

No matter how lofty a system you build, equipment can never be the parents of a good song. All you have to do to become a musician is to have some tools you need. All that is left is for you to be present. But don't forget USB-C. It's easy. By the way, the standard 2.0 is fine. Right now, USB 3.1 is useless for recording.

Microphone

When recording vocals I use a D5, a dynamic microphone from everyone's favorite manufacturer, AKG. Many times you will see on the internet that you shoulduse a condenser mic, but at least I can't sing without a mic in my hand.

The D5 is a beginner's model, but it outperformed all the mics in the same price range that I tested when I bought it. and it was very inexpensive for such a high performance. I believe it was about $60 at the time in Japan.
When recorded Fake Gold, it was a $1 microphone. Nowadays, this microphone is high-end enough.

Headphone

I'm using AKG K240 and Apple Earpods. They are cheap and sound close to average of people using. That's good enough for me.

DAW

For Recording

If you ask me which is the most powerful DAW for iPad recording environment, I will answer Korg Gadget2 without hesitation. I am probably one of its heaviest users. It has a fatal, lethal, scummy weakness in that you can't insert external AUv3, but it's just so easy to use.

People ask me why I don't build a PC environment, but I can do almost anything I want to do on my iPad. I only boot up my laptop when there is something I absolutely cannot do and want to do, but that is almost never the case.

As someone who used an antique Multitrack Recorder until about 2016, this is good enough for me and I don't need more than the basic effects that are built in. I'm not looking to do anything experimental. I want to do normal, ordinary music(※ This statement is repeated).

For Mixing & Mastering

The Korg Gadget2 is very good at the production stage, but its ability to complete a song by itself is poor. It is a "gadget" and a toy (the Nintendo Switch version can even be used to play against each other).

So out comes the Cubasis 3 by Steinberg, an authentic MTR-type DAW, perfect for editing. It's perfect for editing. When I started working on my iPad, I had no choice but to use the previous version of this app, and I chose it because it was the app version of a DAW that was familiar to me in Japan, so I could easily find out how to deal with problems. The operation is stable, so that's good enough for me. Normal is great.

Guitar and Bass

Guitars

For the most part, I primarily use a Fender Japan entry-level Telecaster (made in the mid-to-late 2000s). Only the pickups have been converted to Custom Shop Texas Special Tele Pickups, but otherwise I generally keep the defaults.
I sometimes use a Teisco SG or Greco Stratcaster, but much less frequently.
What is important to me when choosing a guitar is how beautiful it sounds when plugged directly into a console or audio interface. If it is warm and cold, rich and empty, great.

Bass Guitar

I use a Greco Atomic Bass. And if I were to buy a new bass, it would also be an Atomic Bass. It has a short scale that could be mistaken for a guitar, PB/JB design pickups, and the thing I like most...it's lightweight. The sound is not bad either. Not unique, but that's what it is, and that's why I like it. I like normal. Ordinary is wonderful.

Stomp Boxes

Tuner

Minimal Series Tuner TUNE POWERED BY KORG is good. Simple configuration and easy to read. The built-in buffer is also of high quality, although I don't consider it important. The housing is a little too light, which may make it difficult to use depending on your style.

Delay

EKKO 616 Dark by Malekko Heavy Industrry is my favorite delay pedal I have touched in my life. It is no exaggeration to say that the heavy atmosphere of the album TOWA or the sweet floating sound of ROMANCE PLANET were created thanks to this delay pedal.
Well, there are alternative similar sounds that can be prepared by other ways. The buffer switch is useful.

Multi Mod FX

Donner's Mod Square II. I just installed it and I think I can give you that sound on my next album. To be honest, the $1 app sounds much better now, but it's still ridiculously cheap. I bought it because I think hardware is more gender appropriate for live performance. The fact that it included vibrato and tremolo was the deciding factor in my purchase.
I like to play and sing in the most minimalist environment possible, so having lots of sound is an advantage.

In Conclusion

To be honest, I'm considering taking the quality of the audio interface down a notch. No, it's something like this, the guitar and bass sounds are too rich...not cheap... I guess I'm still a sucker for skinny, cheesy sounds.

It is possible to create such a sound with the help of software... but it is more authentic, efficient, and easy to use something really cheap.

But aside from that, I hope this will be of some help to future generations. Musicians have "this way of thinking. In the end, the only way to create your own universe is through repeated trial and error and selection based on the information you obtain from your "Eyes," your ears, every pore and every cell in your body.

Money does not produce music. It's the people who run through the universe that sing it.

Let's train your “insight” to capture the invisible and create the most powerful music you can think of.

Kaz
Boys Age