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Mixing With Headphones 22 Aug 2013 | 05:57 am
When doing multi-track music recording, you obviously must mix all the instruments and voices together at the end so that everything is heard and plays well together. The challenge in mixing is to mak...
Auxiliary Sends For Effects 10 Aug 2013 | 11:56 pm
I wrote about this topic once before in the post - Using Auxiliary Sends For Effects In Pro Tools. That article references a video from Wink Sound showing you how to use auxiliary sends in Pro Tools t...
Bit-Crushing: Distoring Digital Audio On Purpose 5 Aug 2013 | 09:06 pm
Usually when I talk about digital audio and things like bit-depth (see our post - 16-Bit Audio Recording – What The Heck Does It Mean?) and Sampling Frequency (see our post - What Is Sampling Frequenc...
Tips For Recording Virtual Electric Guitar 29 Jul 2013 | 03:28 am
Virtual instruments are a favorite topic of mine. Sampling and modeling technology makes it possible to play and record instruments that sound real - ARE, in fact, real in many ways - without having t...
Recording In A Poor Room 24 Jul 2013 | 12:51 am
I just read an article offering tips on how to record good audio if you are stuck doing it in a poor room. My definition of a poor room is a rectangular room, usually a converted bedroom in your house...
The Vinyl LP – Yes It Is Still Alive 21 Jul 2013 | 04:29 am
Back when I was a kid, the LP (which stands for "long play") was the king of music. There was no internet (well, not for the public anyway), no streaming, no iTunes. When we went shopping for music, w...
USB Mic Versus Condenser Mic And Interface For Home Recording 14 Jul 2013 | 01:02 am
In part 3 of our 5-part post series, How To Build A Home Recording Studio, I mention two ways to set up a recording studio on your computer: Configuration 1 is a microphone plugged directly into a co...
Mixing Tips For Creating More Headroom In Your Recordings 13 Jul 2013 | 03:08 am
Headroom in your recordings is the amount of "space" (a useful visual metaphor for an audio thing) between the peak of an audio waveform (or as I like to call them - "blobs"), and the maximum availabl...
Creating Recordings With More Space and Depth 11 Jul 2013 | 12:29 am
One major goal of most audio recording projects is to create a natural sounding product for the listener - in much the same way that video seems to look better to us, less "flat," when it has more dep...
How To Create The Most Common TV Show Sound Effect 9 Jul 2013 | 03:56 am
If you've watched TV in the last few years, you've heard it. There is a sound effect, usually in cop dramas (though I heard it in an episode of Dr. Who recently!), that always comes in just after a ch...
