This is a guest post by Damian Burke the editor of The Doughnut music magazine. I love home recording (for the record, that’s not my studio in the photo). I don’t claim to be any good at it, but that doesn’t make it any cheaper. Here are some tips that may help when money is...
They say you shouldn’t believe everything you hear on the internet. Well, in this case it’s exactly true. I got a comment on Google+ the other day from a guy that swore by this statement. I had to laugh at how utterly and completely wrong this guy was. No good engineer uses a SM57 anymore?...
A reader hits the nail on the head with a comment: I still do not get results which I expect. The problem is – as I believe – the lack of knowledge about how to mix different instruments and how to work with equalizers. Exactly! You have no idea how glad I am to hear somebody say that....
Although you may know the ins and outs of every little thing in your studio, your clients probably don’t. Most engineers are musicians. However, only a handful of musicians are engineers. And because you share their knowledge of instrument playing, you might make the mistake of thinking they share your knowledge of gain structure, mic...
You may disagree, but I think that most people tend to over-complicate things and make them more scary than they really are. Whenever they’re talking about a new project, they get excited but quickly draw a list of obstacles, get overwhelmed and discouraged . Then the exciting idea never gets real. That’s human. I am...
Most home studio engineers yearn for a second room to record in. Close your eyes, and make a wish: I wish, I wish, I wish I had a live room! Open your eyes. Nope? Still stuck with your single bedroom studio where you not only record, but mix and master everything you produce. Joe Gilder...
As an engineer or producer, you have to do a lot of different kinds of listening. You have to listen carefully to the raw sounds that your microphones are capturing. You have to listen to the balance of sounds when you mix. You have to listen to reference tracks to make sure you’re working in...
I come across this question a lot: “What is the best interface for recording?” Not just about interfaces, but other audio equipment as well. “What’s the best this…what’s the best that…?” And frankly, it’s hard to say. It depends on so many factors. I have an it would be a terrible choice. How to find...
This is a guest post by Rajiv Agarwal of Audioshapers. A microphone preamplifier (or mic preamp) is one of the many things you’ll need to equip yourself with before recording anything with a microphone. Simply put, a mic preamp amplifies the weak signal from the microphone and boosts it to line level, so the audio can be recorded...
Got this question from a reader, it might interest you: I have a little home studio. I first bought a Focusrite interface 8 inputs and I’m at the point to buy good individual mic preamp to build up a little bit. I’m looking for warm mic preamp for vocal around 600$ Do you think it’s a good...