Inthepipeline.net is written primarily as a resource for inthepipeline recording school.

Welcome to Inthepipeline Recording School Bristol U.K.

Here you will find an increasing amount of information useful to the aspiring recording engineer, musician and producer working with a PC or Laptop running Windows XP, but this site will also be useful to people interested in audio-visual work and those who wish to better understand the capabilities and limitations of their systems.

Making music should be fun.
The art of writing music is demanding, but rewarding.
The art of recording is also demanding.
There are many things to consider, but they should not get in the way of a persons creative talent. The ability to record and produce music should enhance it.
My aim in writing this site is to help provide an introduction to those who are considering using a PC to record, an introduction to the basics of recording and also to provide a more in-depth knowledge upon which the reader can easily build.

I would like to take you through the following steps:

• Basic Equipment needs for the DAW user
• Microphones
• The process of setting the computer up correctly from the onset 
• Optimising Windows for making music 
• Understanding about Soundcards 
• Building a Quiet Computer 
• Installing and configuring your DAW software 
• Choosing places to record and mix

Then we can move on to the subject of Recording:

• Making Multitrack recordings
•  Introducing Plugin Effects and Reverberation
•  Setting levels for the best quality recordings 
• Introducing Dynamics Processors 
• Headphone Monitoring, dealing with Latency whilst monitoring 
• A basic guide to MIDI 
• Introducing Plugin Instruments 
• Editing with a DAW, the principals of Non-Linear and Non-Destructive Editing
• Analog Recording. We still do it!
• Understanding the basic principles of recording in the digital domain
• Consider the Computer! Monitoring the PC and working within its limitations
• Basic monitoring considerations Learning to Listen
• Mixing: Tonal Balance and Dynamic Range
• Mixing: Psychoacoustic Masking and interaction between sounds
• Mixing: Layering sounds and making space in a mix
• Mixing:Creating psychoacoustic environments
• Mixing: Planning a mix-down
• Mixing: More about Dynamic Processors, making sounds sit comfortably in a mix
• Bits Depths and Sample rates, Nyequist theorem and what the Masters say
• Mastering as opposed to Mixing The Loudness War, quality versus quantity
• Considering Mastering for different for different media, The K system Bit depth and Dither

This site is under on-going development. More pages will be added soon. Thanks for visiting inthepipeline.net