It's All About the Connections

Now is indeed a fine time to play music. With computers popping up upon every available flat surface in households, and pro-sounding recording technology finally becoming available at very attainable cost, the ability of the average person to create a good sounding recording of their own music is greatly empowered compared to just ten years ago, when your options were state of the art computer gear (with its inherent expense and learning curve), poor sounding tape, or paying a professional for studio time.

Now, with any current computer, you can build a respectable home recording setup for under $500. Way under!

But you will need connections. It's true that the music industry is one where the right connections are everything, so I'm not going to pretend otherwise. Having the right connections is critical if you want to be heard. Not having any connections is a sure fire method to wallow in frustration.

The good news is that you can get them here. Most are inexpensive, too. For example, if you want to plug your bass guitar directly into your computer, you will need a 1/4" to 3.5mm connector. We have that! If you want to send a mix of your background music through your PA system to accompany yourself at a coffee shop gig, you're gonna need a mini phone to RCA pair connector. We have that also.

And the connections you have now must be maintained. You don't just make a connection and then forget about it. Connections like guitar and microphone cables must be maintained, and periodically replaced. When it's time to renew your connections, The Laboratory has all that stuff.

We have recently poured over our many catalogs,  and ordered all kinds of obscure connectors and whatnots, closing the gap between having lots of connections, and having all of them. Need a connector to plug a balanced mic into a guitar amp? We got that. Need a connection between studio headphones and a mono mini jack? We got that. We have 1/4 to 1/8, LoZ to HiZ, XLR to RCA, single stereo to dual mono, Betaflux to Dilithium (which hasn't even been invented yet). Yes, we even have the machine that goes "bing."

At The Laboratory, it's all about connections. Connecting with our customers, connecting our customers with their gear, connecting gear to other gear, connecting with new and exciting toys. As Plato said, "Connecting your nonlinear editing system to an array of varied instruments requires many adaptors and cables."*

Wow did I really just write seven paragraphs about adaptors?

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*Not really something Plato said.