Studio amplifiers for passive monitors. Find an amplifier that matches your studio monitors specifications.
Make sure that you match the amplifier's Watt match the ones for your monitors. Its always better to buy an amplifier a little stronger than the monitors in power. When driving the monitors a stronger power amp sounds better in mid-level volume.

Active and passive nearfield monitors and studio headphones for sound recording. Monitoring is one of the most important areas of music production.
Without a good monitoring system you will be unable to produce music that sounds good in big sound systems and small hi-fi stereo. Save a little more and invest in a robust and reliable pair of monitors.

Analog and digital mixing desks and consoles for the home and project recording studio and DJ use.

Vital features are enough channels for your recording set-up and returns and equalisation to cover your studio needs. Good mixing consoles are well built and have plenty of inputs and outputs to suit custom studio set-ups. If you are using a computer to do most of your mixing then consider a good digital console for enhanced automation or an analog mixer for warmer (less digital) sound.

The price of software is such that you need to make an informed decision on everything including which platform you are going to use, sequencer, sampler, wave processing, synths, studio FX and music production and mastering tools.

Many manufacturers of audio software also provide hardware solutions. Hardware features extra memory and power for processing CPU-hungry applications such as reverb, compression, vocoders and delay.

Computer hardware including computer systems for music production, sound cards, Pro Tools, USB extensions, external hard drives, graphics cards and other essentials.

Using the right controller will enable hands-on access for your music in real-time.

Make sure that there are enough knobs, faders and modulation wheels on your MIDI controller so you can tweak frequencies, pitch and other effects. Recording parameters in real time can boost the 'live' element in your music.
You can now buy dedicated USB self-powered MIDI controllers for maximum ease of use.

Good controller interfaces can help you reduce lead times letting the creativity flow instead.

Using the right controller keyboard will give you more hands-on access for your music in real-time.

Make sure that there are enough keys - and big enough - as well as a series of knobs and modulation wheels so you can tweak frequencies, pitch and other effects. Recording parameters in real time will make them sound so much more 'real'.

There are many types of studio cables for the home and project recording studio and XLR balanced cables can improve the sound quality produced by your amplifier and loud speakers.

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