Posts Tagged ‘plugin’

Recording Guitars – Interview with Diamond Duggal from Swami

Tweet Part 3 of 3 video interviews with Diamond Duggal from the band Swami. Diamond talks about recording guitars for the new album ‘Upgrade’.

Soundflower – Free Inter-application Audio Routing Utility for Mac OS X

Tweet 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 [...]

What is an Expander?

Tweet What is an Expander? Expanders increase the difference in loudness between quieter and louder sections of audio making quiet sounds quieter and loud sounds louder.  They are pretty much the opposite of compressors working by turning down the volume when the signal level falls below the

Musicians – Use Skype To Collaborate Remotely

Tweet Musicians – Use Skype To Collaborate Remotely If you’re a Pro Tools user you may have heard of a plugin called Source Connect. Whilst this article is not directly about Source Connect, it is useful to understand what it is and what it does.

Recording Tips: How to Make Better Mixes

Tweet Recording Tips: How to Make Better Mixes By: Dan Atkinson Recording and mixing audio is truly an art form unto itself. Like playing bass, it’s the type of thing most people can pickup quickly and without much effort. Getting good at it can take years, however. I’ve been recording in my home studio since [...]

Set Up A Home Studio To Make Your Own Recordings

Tweet Set Up A Home Studio To Make Your Own Recordings by: Edgar Clyne Nowadays affordable computers and great audio hardware make it feasible for anyone to make great recordings.

Why Use Tube or Tape Saturation Plugins?

Tweet Why Use Tube or Tape Saturation Plugins? Do you need to add analogue warmth and punch to your digital recordings? Do your mixes cry out for the color and saturation of analogue tape or the warm characteristics of tubes ? Using tube or tape saturation plugins can add a whole new depth to your [...]

On a Compressor, What is Knee?

Tweet On a Compressor, What is Knee? Some compressors allow you to control the knee setting. There are two types of knee setting, hard and soft. Hard knee compression reduces the gain abruptly when the signal exceeds the threshold. Hard knee is the default setting on most compressors and is good for harder sounds like [...]

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