Engineers tend to make a lot of mistakes. Especially when they’re all the audio equipment you’re bound to end up making some recording mistakes here and there. It’s no big deal when you’re a beginner. That’s how everybody learns. By making mistakes. I know I have, again and again. In fact, I even thought I...
Recording drums is one of the most challenging tasks an engineer can face. One of the requirements of my final project back at SAE (School of Audio Engineering) was that it had to have drums. The school wanted you to know how to record drums, or at least be familiar with every aspect of recording...
This is an excerpt from Recording Strategies – Planning the Perfect Session. Get Your Copy Here. In the last two chapters we’ve been looking at the various things we need before we start getting some quality recordings down. Having right equipment and a well-treated room is all a factor in getting your recordings to sound as...
This is an excerpt from chapter 2 – Setting up a Home Recording Studio from Recording Strategies – Planning the Perfect Session. Chances are you either have a home recording studio already set up or dreams of it in your head. Everyone today is able to create their own little recording space for their productions. But...
A lot of music sucks. I mean, it can get really bad. A typical song might have a semi-hummable melody but no rhythm, or a great rhythm section with a trite melody. And even when you hear a great melody on top of a great beat with a semi-decent chord progression, you still feel like...
So you want to know how to squeeze your audio? Make it punchy and tight? Compress with the best of them? Well, are you even using your audio compressor to its full extent? Sometimes, you might not even realize the amount of different sounds you can squeeze out of your compressor. If we just talk...
Marketing experts will be familiar with the 4 P’s of marketing: Product, Price, Promotion and Placement. But do you engineers know the four P’s of Audio Engineering & Music Production? – Click to Tweet! Production There must be some level of production involved with any level of audio engineering. It’s called music production for a reason...
What is mastering? Is it putting every processor on your mixed song and hoping for the best? Is it making it as loud as possible and hoping it song? (No, it isn’t. Sorry Lars Ulrich…) Well, if that’s not what mastering is, what is it really? And more importantly, how can you learn how to...
Chances are, if you’re from the United States, you have no idea what I’m talking about. If you are from Europe, you’re probably cringing at the thought of Eurovision. Eurovision was a little over a week ago and pits all European countries against each other in a song competition. The results are varied, weird and sometimes...
Got this interesting question about normalization in mastering: Well, if I’ve got a bunch of tracks and I want to get them all in the same range and everything, I make a CD of them using Windows Media Player, then rip the tracks back off the CD. Why? Because Windows Media Player uses Normalization on...