You can always plug an instrument straight in, but what do you do about vocals? The on-board mic on your laptop just won’t cut it. Rode NT-USB+Īside for headphones, there’s also a microphone, which is clearly an important addition to a musician’s setup. Granted, they’re wired, but if you’re buying for someone who normally sits tethered behind a desk working on some audio, that won’t bother them, and they’ll love the sound on offer from these excellent headphones. Musicians, podcasters, engineers, and general lovers of sound will appreciate the range and versatility on offer from the NTH-USB, as well as the comfort. Rode has long been a player in the microphone game in Australia, and great microphones at that, but its pair of headphones launched this year came out of nowhere. That might be all the studio an eager muso needs. The PreSonus AudioBox Go is an example of one of these, providing a compact box that works on the USB Type C standard, but allows a standard XLR microphone and a 1/4 jack from a guitar or bass to be plugged right in.
That’s where an external capture box comes in, acting as a sound card for a microphone and line-in. Whether you’re using a laptop or a tablet, you probably can only plug so much in, and the computer or tablet mightn’t be powerful enough for the gadget you’re recording off. Specifically, an audio capture box, allowing more devices to be plugged in. If you’re buying for someone who wants to record music wherever, you may need to think a little out of the box… and possibly into another box. And this is made for that, with a short 25 key piano complete with octave and pitch control, all made on what is basically a computer keyboard size and shape, and for much less than a big digital MIDI keyboard will typically cost. Korg does the slightly bigger “micro” keyboards, but the NanoKey is a compact keyboard made for folks who want to play anywhere, but don’t always have the room. It’s a gift that’ll give the gift of strumming, and then hopefully eventually maybe even music, too.Ībout as compact a piano as it gets, Korg’s “nano” range of instruments is more or less what’s implied from the name: properly tiny instruments you can plug into an iPad or a computer. To keep the interest going, grab a subscription for Fender Play, the Fender online teaching service that covers guitar, bass, and yes, ukulele, too.
In Australia, ukuleles are common enough that you can find them for around $30 if you look, and while the quality isn’t amazing, it’s a starting point. If you get them an instrument AND a bunch of lessons, it can be an educational purchase with a real purpose, and that’s what this combination is all about. Then it may as well be a crap shoot, but it doesn’t have to be.
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Price: $30 for the ukulele, $15.49 per month for Fender Playīuying an instrument for someone can be a deeply personal thing, except, of course, if they have no idea how to play any instrument. Mahalo Ukulele and Fender Play subscription Fender Play for the ukulele There’s obviously a lot of versatility in the music world, from instruments and hardware galore, but these are some ideas that could easily work well for the curious muso in all of us. If the focus of your holiday buying happens to be a musician or someone who likes to create some music, here are some options to get you thinking. Buying for someone who loves a good strum or fancies themselves a bit of a muso? Consider these gift ideas for the music lover you’re buying for.
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