Why Professional Equipment Will Never Be Replaced by DIY Recording

In the world of DIY and home studios, you might think you can slide by with a $100 Amazon microphone. I mean, after all, your friend who started rapping in his basement on a Blue Yeti USB microphone has almost 100 views on SoundCloud. However, we’d all like to make a request from the bottom of our hearts (“we” being me, your loved ones, and everyone you care about): please don’t do that. 

You can’t expect a donkey to keep pace with an award winning race horse. When you choose to sing through a $100 microphone or even a $1000 microphone, you can’t expect it to sound like a $6,000 one. It’s just not fair. This might seem like a crude example, but it gives a good picture of the value you find in a professional recording studio. 

You also have a staking effect on your recording. Let’s just say, once a normal professional recording studio signal chain makes its way from microphone to preamp to compressor to tube equalizer to hi-end interface that sound signal has seen $50,000 worth of equipment. You stack a normal 40 - 100 track session of that and it sounds lush and full. The opposite is true too. If you have a budget interface and microphone, you’re stacking the $500 signal over and over again. It leads to muddy and unclear stereo image, which ultimately ends up just overshadowing your talent solely because you have ameteur equipment.

We’re in a greatly innovated world where we can record and produce from the comfort of our homes on our own. But if you take music seriously and want to put out an album to be proud of, contact Blue Sky Studios today to let us come alongside you to produce a record you can be proud of.