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Typical live use of a multicore (thick cable on stage) Multicores usually create a link between the stage and sound desk, or live room and control room.When used in sound reinforcement, the multicore cable runs from the stage box or microphone splitter to the front-of-house sound desk, where it connects to a mixing console. [2]
Home recording is the practice of recording sound in a private home instead of a professional recording studio. A studio set up for home recording is called a home studio or project studio . Home recording is widely practiced by voice actors, narrators, singers, musicians, podcast hosts, and documentary makers at all levels of success.
A 1980s home studio with a reel-to-reel tape recorder. Although there was some early bedroom production before the 1990s using hardware instruments and recording to tape, the rise of bedroom production is more often closely related to an increase in computing power and decrease in the cost of music technologies which allowed for DAWs to become more accessible towards the end of the 20th century.
A mixing console or mixing desk is an electronic device for mixing audio signals, used in sound recording and reproduction and sound reinforcement systems. Inputs to the console include microphones , signals from electric or electronic instruments, or recorded sounds.
A recording studio is a specialized facility for recording and mixing of instrumental or vocal musical performances, spoken words, and other sounds. They range in size from a small in-home project studio large enough to record a single singer-guitarist, to a large building with space for a full orchestra of 100 or more musicians.
In the mid-to-late 1990s, computers replaced tape-based recording for most home studios, with the Power Macintosh proving popular. [9] In the mid-1980s, many professional recording studios began to use digital audio workstations (DAWs) to accomplish recording and mixing previously done with multitrack tape recorders, mixing consoles, and ...
Many Cadac desks are still in operation in studios all over the world. The last studio desk to be installed is still at Air Edel Studios in London. [3] In 1984 a sound engineer, Martin Levan, from Morgan Studios was asked to put on a live show, Little Shop of Horrors, and the first desk was built for live theatre. [4]
The UMRK Mobile Studio was a remote recording bus purchased from Mike Love of the Beach Boys. The studio bus needed extensive repairs and upgrades after years of sitting idle at Love's home. [ 1 ] The mobile studio was used in the first cable TV / FM " Simulcast " for Zappa's Halloween show on October 31, 1981.