Nobody starts with the perfect listening environment. Everybody has to start somewhere, and it’s OK if your room isn’t the best sounding out there. That doesn’t mean you can’t make great music in it. Music doesn’t ask you whether the room you’re playing it in sounds good. Music doesn’t discriminate between good and bad sounding...
If there’s one thing I’m an expert at, it’s not audio. It’s Spiderman. Spiderman is my all-time favorite comic book character. I probably know more about him than is healthy for a person my age. He has everything that’s interesting in a character: insecurity, girl trouble, superpowers, genius-level intelligence, hilarious wit. I mean seriously, he’s...
Download Your Free Guide: Top 10 Audio Recording Programs That Don’t Suck Right Here. If you’re a serious musician, podcaster, or budding audio engineer, you care about the quality of your recordings–or you should. And that’s why the audio recording programs you use matter. However, I’d like to add that it’s not the software that...
And so, he came Ten Commandments. The stone tablets that spoke the word of God… Moses was one smart cookie. He chose the right side to be on. Away from demi-gods and mythical godlike figures. You see, it was cool to worship many different gods back in olden times. But nowadays, not so much. It’s...
Got an email from a reader about mid/side recording that I thought you might want to hear about. Chapter 4 of Recording Strategies shows you a step by step process on how to set up the M/S recording technique, but he had some additional questions that you might like to know. It’s a multi-part question...
This is a guest post by Jak Daniel of Surrey Studios. Choosing the right professional recording studio could prove to be one of the most important decisions you make. Ultimately, the end result of your studio recording could be the very thing that makes or breaks you as a recording artist. 1. The Equipment Recording...
One of the most under-utilized recording technique is the polar pattern. If you know how to use the polar pattern of the microphone to your advantage, you’re golden. Your Ears as the Polar Pattern Imagine there’s a guitarist on your right side and a vocalist on your left side. Put one hand over your left...
There’s one thing home recording engineers struggle with. Vision. It’s not that they don’t know how to record. They just don’t know how to start, where to go and when they’re done. Maybe you’re familiar with this process? The thing is, if you have a big project, you need to break it into bite-sized pieces....
People talk about piano recording like it’s Mt. Everest. They look at it like it’s some insurmountable obstacle that you can’t overcome. Like some grandiose instrument that you can only record with the most expensive equipment and the bestestest of studios. But it’s simply not true. You can easily get a great piano sound. Just...
Keep getting the same question from a lot of readers. It has to do with your room. I was asked how it’s possible to really take the “room sound” out of your bedroom recordings. Well, it’s not really that hard. It has to do with correct mic placement. Knowing where to point the microphone and...