#11: Start Recording Your Music For Under £100

01/21/21 • 25 min

Does making pro sounding home recordings require an expensive, fancy home studio? While a girl can dream (#studiogoals), there’s always more than one way to skin a cat... or recording. Inside this week’s episode, Isobel breaks down the equipment for under £100 that will get you recordings you’re proud of. Yes Cinderella, you shall go to the DIY recording ball!
EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS
{0:00} Intro & FREE 5-Day Challenge details
{02:11} What’s a ‘home studio’?
{07:53} Perfectionism regarding home equipment
{14:55} My top 3 pieces of equipment (grand total of £100)
{19:09} Free techniques you can use
{21:11} Where could this take you from here?
{22:42} Summary and next week’s teaser
Join the FREE 5 Day Clean Up Your Recordings (you dirty girl) Challenge taking place from Jan 29th - Feb 4th >>
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Equipment to get you started:
Pro Tools First
Garageband
Seinheisser HD-201 headphones
Behringer C-1U
Pro-coustix Ultraflex pack of 24 tiles
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#10: Overcoming Doubt & Killing It With Live Electronics With Una Monaghan

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Do you ever look at other musicians who seem to know exactly what they’re doing with music tech and think “I wish I knew what I was doing like THEY do”? To look at the amazingly talented electronic musician, Una Monaghan, you might think exactly that. But inside this incredibly honest conversation, we learn that even someone at the top of their game like Una, has these niggling, and universally human, inner thoughts.
EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS
{0:00} Intro
{04:20} How Una got started in music technology
{13:31} Una’s first experience of the studio
{20:18} Pros, cons and tips for working in the studio
{25:40} Letting go of perfection
{34:08} Building confidence, overcoming doubt and allowing yourself to be vulnerable
{50:58} Balancing PHD studies, creating music and being a freelance engineer
{53:57} Using electronics in live Irish traditional music and setting up Fair Plé
{59:35} Una’s top tips for getting started
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Website: www.unamonaghan.com
Instagram: www.instagram.com/una_pix
Twitter: www.twitter.com/una_music
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#12: Feeling Fear & Recording Your Music Anyway

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We all feel fear from time-to-time; it’s part of being human. But what if fear was stopping you from sharing parts of yourself that are integral to your own growth and development as a musician and a woman? Inside this week’s episode, Isobel explores this tricky but important emotion, in a bid to gain some insight into how we can feel fear AND still share our voice and make our mark as female musicians.

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS
{0:00} Intro & FREE Live Workshop details
{03:27} What is fear?
{09:52} Fear and Self-Esteem: What’s the connection with music technology?
{24:42} How accepting fear can make us less fearful in our artistic work
{29:07} The realisation I always come back to
{31:49} The choice we can make, right now
{33:04} Summary & next week’s teaser
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