Real life review: AV receiver Pioneer SX-S30DAB

Dreams I’ve always dreamed of hi-fi and/or home cinema. Nothing overly high-end/audiophile expensive, but something serious with focus on stereo. Somehow I came to like Cambridge Audio (CA) products and was thinking about the lines of their Aero 5.1 set, perhaps without a subwoofer for the sake of my neighbours, driven by one of Cambridge …

REAPER Introduction

This time I wanna reference my double-episode about Reaper. It's really just a quick introduction because it's not possible to cover any DAW in under 16 minutes, but I wanted to show how to approach some basic tasks in REAPER. Both videos were made with version 2.5x and it was just a few days before …

Multi-track home recording for free

I'd like to interconnect my YouTube creations with this blog - so this time we'll be talking about home recording with Audacity. It's by no means Audacity tutorial - I just want to introduce Audacity and also demonstrate its limitations when you wanna enter the realm where acronyms like VST, MIDI and ASIO rule it …

My new home recording… studio?

Whatever... it's cheap, but it's my studio anyway! It's been some time since I've composed my latest song. I'm a man of more hobbies than I can handle, I know. Gamer, programmer and wannabe musician too. (Not to mention I'm a father and husband too. :-)) I can't play well any instrument, but I compose …