The art of audio engineering is more democratised than ever. The early days of Soundcloud rap and bedroom pop were nothing compared to the ubiquity of audio equipment today – a levelling of the playing field that grants more immediate access to recording music and audio than ever before.
Professional studio environments remain the ideal environments for recording, from the wellsprings of talent working within them to the hundreds of thousands invested in acoustic treatment and top-flight tech. Ultimately, though, the ways in which these incomparable spaces get their audio into a DAW are equivalent to the ways we do so at home, in DIY spaces or even on the road.
