A portable recorder should be in every engineer’s(or musician’s) travel bag. It comes in handy in so many situation I just don’t know how you can live without it. What can YOU use a portable recorder for? A multitude of things come to mind, and here below are just a few suggestions that have worked...
Wednesday’s article on there that enable you to fix even the worst of errors. Auto-Tune and Melodyne work wonders for tuning, and all these elastic time tools seem to fix even the worst performance. But when should you edit and when should you re-record? Editing 1. Audio editing is a handy resource for fixing things...
Editing audio tracks is a cosmetic process. You’re that’s full of annoying clicks just because you don’t know where to cut your audio. It’s a simple process to edit audio correctly and smoothly. If you’re dealing with a drummer that’s not the tightest in the world you might need to move a beat here or...
Everybody wants to record audio like the great engineers of history. You might read interviews and books about their warm sound and smoothly saturated tape. And then you try to apply those same ideas to your recordings. Big Mistake Digital audio recording is a bit different than what you read about in the history books...
Engineers spend a lot of time talking about the sweet spot when recording. “Gotta find the sweet spot” or “this is where the sweet spot is” is often heard(or some combination of the same meaning) and it can make the novice engineer wonder what the hell they are talking about. Luckily, finding the sweet spot...
Listenupnorth.com, a spoken word website asked me on Twitter the other day about some recording tips or suggestions when it comes to recording voice overs like they have on their website. They record poetry and single voice recordings that need to be quiet and intimate to capture the listener. After brainstorming and listening to some...
From a music production standpoint, recording guitar correctly can be one of the most fundamental aspects of a there needs to be thought put into how you want that guitar to sound, and how you want that guitar part to groove. The Production Process The production process of recording guitar can involve many things. You...
Beginners make newbie mistakes, and it is up to those who know better to offer them some solid audio recording tips. But to some experienced sound engineers, it’s not always so apparent what is easy to follow and what isn’t. Like a teacher that is so familiar with a subject, he expects the students to...
There are many ways to screw up your recording session. Whether you are the artist or the engineer there are certain practices you can adhere to when you are recording. If you are working in a commercial studio or recording at your friend’s home recording studio then try not to screw up your studio time...
Recording acoustic guitar requires a totally different method than recording the electric guitar. Since it’s an acoustic instrument – as opposed to a plugged-in electric one – there are a few different techniques that you need to keep in mind when tracking an acoustic. Read on for my top ten recording tips for an easier...