Recording Electric Guitar by Myles Boisen The electric guitar (“El Gtr” in engineer shorthand) is one of the easiest instruments to record. Even a modest rig-a good guitar coupled with a decent amplifier-makes the engineer’s job a cinch, offering plenty of level, a variety of easily adjustable tones, and-with most modern amps, at least-an assortment [...]
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Studio Acoustics – How I Refitted My Home Studio
December 5th, 2010
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Home Studio Acoustics – How I Refitted My Studio by Simon Duggal My home studio was long overdue an acoustic refit. I had a window of around two weeks in which I could get it done without affecting my workflow so I decided that it would be a good time to rip it all out [...]
Soundflower – Free Inter-application Audio Routing Utility for Mac OS X
November 21st, 2010
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Free Inter-application Audio Routing Utility for Mac OS X Soundflower is a Mac OS X (10.2 and later) system extension that allows applications to pass audio to other applications. Soundflower is easy to use, it simply presents itself as an audio device, allowing any audio application to send and receive audio with no other support [...]
Cubase MIDI Tips
September 8th, 2010
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How to guide: Cubase MIDI Tips by Mark Spacey Starting off with a new piece of software can often seem a daunting process, so let’s take a look through some basic processes in Cubase and kick-start your knowledge database!
Importing Midi & Wav Files Into Reason For Music Production
September 8th, 2010
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Importing Midi & Wav Files Into Reason for Music Production By: Mark Spacey We all know that Reason Refills are a great way to expand the already bulging factory soundset included with Reason, but how do you import other sounds into this versatile piece of music production software? We’ll start off by looking at MIDI [...]
DIY Broadband Bass Trap – How To Build Your Own 8″ Monster Trap
August 1st, 2010
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DIY Broadband Bass Trap – How To Build Your Own 8″ Monster Trap With some basic diy skills and for a fraction of the cost of retail bass traps, you can quite easily build effective broadband bass traps to tame those offending low frequency reflections in your studio. Follow the step by step guide below [...]
Vocal Plugin Chain Set Up – Example 1
July 21st, 2010
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Vocal Plugin Chain Set Up Example 1 Quite often people ask what plugins I use on vocals and in what order. To help answer this question I will periodically post pictures of the different vocal chain set ups I use. In this particular example I was after a ‘breathy’ and ‘airy’ vocal sound for a [...]
Room Acoustics Measurement Tools For PC and Mac
June 24th, 2010
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Essential tools to help you get an accurate sound in your home or project studio MAC AudioXplorer is a powerful sound analyzer software designed specifically for Mac OS X. AudioXplorer provides a real-time analysis window where the user can visualize the sound, spectrum and sonogram. Several real-time windows can be opened simultaneously.It also provides a static [...]
Top Tips for Recording Vocals
June 10th, 2010
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Top Tips for Recording Vocals What type of microphone should I use? Condenser microphones are generally best for recording vocals. They don’t handle high sound pressure levels as well as
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