You can make great music at home
Mar 05, 2009
DO you enjoy strumming the guitar on a serene Sunday afternoon while your friends and family listen? Or do you and your friends prefer to stay indoors on weekend nights, sharing drinks and listening to your own selection of music?
By Titus Serunjogi
DO you enjoy strumming the guitar on a serene Sunday afternoon while your friends and family listen? Or do you and your friends prefer to stay indoors on weekend nights, sharing drinks and listening to your own selection of music?
Do you believe that superb in-home entertainment gadgets are a status symbols, along with the rest of the furniture and décor in your living room?
How about parents who would love to relive their teenage fantasies while occupying their children in some educative co-curricular activity?
Or, do you adore DJs and musicians and would not mind doing what they do yourself? If you are the type, then visit Kampala’s several DJ and music instrument stores.
Paddy Lumanyo of Glory Electronic Sounds on Charm Towers says: “To many Ugandans, in-home entertainment means only a radio, TV and DVD player. But that is old fashioned.
The trend right now is connecting one or more DJ’s equipment to the home theatre to be able to hype up the bass and make the music sound more vibrant.
He says: “Home owners also want to be able to control the music themselves just as a DJ would control the sound in a club.â€
An expanded home entertainment system is more versatile. It can do the job for you whether you just want to tune in to the radio or play for a gathering at a house party.â€
For example, you can connect a mega-multiple deck 15CD player that takes in 15 CDs at once (costs sh450,000) to a mixer which ensures music is playing non-stop.
Many mixers now have digital effects like reverb or built-in. Add an equaliser to put a signature flavour to the music (say Pop or Reggae as you desire).
You might also want to add an amplifier which connects to all the several speakers to ensure that you have all of them bringing out sound simultaneously. This costs up to sh3m.
Such a system would not only make a status statement in your living room but would indeed create a superb and more involving music output in your house.
You can hook up your mixer to your home stereo or a boom box if you do not have actual speakers.
Considering the trend, bass and top speakers or mixable CD players are no longer the sole reserve of discotheques, DJs and mobile discos.
Neither are music instruments the sole reserve of bands, music schools or churches. You too can have them at home.
Electronic keyboards and acoustic guitars can be played during leisure time at home, say on weekends and they can also be used to occupy your children’s time gainfully.
The best guitars for home use are the semi acoustic. These can be played with or without electricity and they cost sh350, 000.
Light keyboards, the kind that anyone can carry about the house with ease, cost sh180, 000 a piece.
You will no longer move far, or late at night to watch a band if you have these instruments at home.
DO you enjoy strumming the guitar on a serene Sunday afternoon while your friends and family listen? Or do you and your friends prefer to stay indoors on weekend nights, sharing drinks and listening to your own selection of music?
Do you believe that superb in-home entertainment gadgets are a status symbols, along with the rest of the furniture and décor in your living room?
How about parents who would love to relive their teenage fantasies while occupying their children in some educative co-curricular activity?
Or, do you adore DJs and musicians and would not mind doing what they do yourself? If you are the type, then visit Kampala’s several DJ and music instrument stores.
Paddy Lumanyo of Glory Electronic Sounds on Charm Towers says: “To many Ugandans, in-home entertainment means only a radio, TV and DVD player. But that is old fashioned.
The trend right now is connecting one or more DJ’s equipment to the home theatre to be able to hype up the bass and make the music sound more vibrant.
He says: “Home owners also want to be able to control the music themselves just as a DJ would control the sound in a club.â€
An expanded home entertainment system is more versatile. It can do the job for you whether you just want to tune in to the radio or play for a gathering at a house party.â€
For example, you can connect a mega-multiple deck 15CD player that takes in 15 CDs at once (costs sh450,000) to a mixer which ensures music is playing non-stop.
Many mixers now have digital effects like reverb or built-in. Add an equaliser to put a signature flavour to the music (say Pop or Reggae as you desire).
You might also want to add an amplifier which connects to all the several speakers to ensure that you have all of them bringing out sound simultaneously. This costs up to sh3m.
Such a system would not only make a status statement in your living room but would indeed create a superb and more involving music output in your house.
You can hook up your mixer to your home stereo or a boom box if you do not have actual speakers.
Considering the trend, bass and top speakers or mixable CD players are no longer the sole reserve of discotheques, DJs and mobile discos.
Neither are music instruments the sole reserve of bands, music schools or churches. You too can have them at home.
Electronic keyboards and acoustic guitars can be played during leisure time at home, say on weekends and they can also be used to occupy your children’s time gainfully.
The best guitars for home use are the semi acoustic. These can be played with or without electricity and they cost sh350, 000.
Light keyboards, the kind that anyone can carry about the house with ease, cost sh180, 000 a piece.
You will no longer move far, or late at night to watch a band if you have these instruments at home.