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Features and news on music recording and sound engineering
A home recording studio owner who is blind asks whether anyone else in the same position has managed to overcome the difficulties of digital audio workstation operation.
If you always find yourself using EQ to boost frequencies and never cut, then you are letting one of the most powerful facilities on your mixing console or DAW go to waste...
Step 1. I wrote the song on my gitar and the arrangements on a Roland E15 used as a MIDI keyboard....
This song had drums, bass, and acoustic guitar tracked in a studio. All vocals, electric guitars, percussion, and cello were tracked with an MBox. Mics used for electric guitars were the SM57, AKG C3000, and RE-20. For the cello, I used an SM81 up close and an AKG C3000 a few feet back. Percussion was tracked with the C3000. Vocals used the RODE NT2000....
This song was another track where basics were cut in a studio, and overdubs done on an MBox. For the lo-fi guitar sound of the intro, we plugged into a tiny, broken-looking guitar amp in the studio, and turned the volume up all the way. It sounded terrible, just as we hoped....
Where do you make your production decisions? In the studio? No, there's a better place than that, somewhere you can get some peace and quiet...
I was wondering if any Engineers and Music industry Enthusiasts would be able to help?I am in the process of setting up a home studio and...
On this track, drums, bass, and a few guitar tracks were cut in a studio, with everything else done on an MBox....
The chord progression on this song was with me for a while, and came together shortly after the death of my friend's mother. She was on my mind all during the recording, and I used her personal motto as the title, in dedication....
To record this track, we went in to a local studio in our town. We recorded 3 tracks all together. Our method was pretty basic. We made sure we had all of our songs DOWN before we even set foot in the studio....
The conventional mixing console may just have had its day. The time could now be right to replace the large-scale console with racks of preamps.
This process started in my small home studio; I recorded this song Blame game using a loop....
Albumname: Il Musicante...
Step 1. I wrote the song on my gitar and the arrangements on a Roland E15 used as a MIDI keyboard....
Quiero contarles que actualmente me encuentro promoviendo *My Home Studio* y deseo ponerlo a tus ordenes ya sea para tus producciones musicales, demos, comerciales, viñetas de perifoneo y todo lo que tiene que ver con audio...
A box-within-a-box construction and no angry neighbors. Commercial work including bachelor parties, demos, karaoke, radio programs, rap, classical, complete bands, voiceovers. What more could you want in a home recording studio?
'If a piece of equipment changes the shape of this sine wave, or any signal, then distortion is created. Distortion generates additional frequencies that were not present in the original signal. Sometimes distortion can add 'warmth' often it is distinctly unpleasant...'
Helleo my name is Damien From the group Afficial, and we are curretly looking for a record deal. We are based in Philadelphia P.A and we have been rapping for 11 years now. We were singed to nolimit records in 2000. We were also feature on 11 albums for no limit records....
Electric platform is produced by Ex-malik the artist himself. by the time i realized i needed a smash hit for 2008 i was on a small event before litsening to Linkin park's smash hit [Numb]2004 classic that got me energetic that day & i felt like am in a big cathedral with a strong keyboard sound theme cause linkin park is one of my favourite Rock Rap bands on Earth so i had an idea myself & that morning i went straight to the studio without stopping anywhere to construct a similar beat/instrumental to Numb...
Want to be a successful musician or producer? Be warned - you might think you're great but in reality you're nothing more than average.
first I record half an hour of myself playing the drums (I can't really play) at a set tempo, hooked up to a neumann u87 on the kick, an akg solid tube on the snare, and two beyerdynamics 740s for overhead....
Using the Audio Technica AT3035 Microphone through a Studio Vlave pre-amp, then the Behringer Tube Composer and the Aphex big bottom and aural exciter (pause for breath) we tracked down the acoustic guitar in 3 parts for the intro....
The entire drum track was created in FL Studio 7. FL Studio is fairly straightforward and the presets (EQ, comnpression, etc) are awesome....
Record Producer Steve Lyon gives a taste of what it is like to work with Glyn Johns's simple drum miking techniques and explains why metal sheets were once brought into the studio.
This track is out of a recent album that we are currently recording. Everything isn't final of course. Also, keep in mind we are American of Cuban descent, so the vocals naturally don't have an English accent. This song and it's recording were intentionally done to sound like if it were pulled out of Sgt. Peppers. The beginning of the song was recorded extended so that it could be blended with the previous track....
This process started in my small home studio; I recorded this song as a simple message to create awareness that girls must and should be respected....
If you're using EQ to correct a problem with microphone positioning, then it's unlikely that you will ever achieve the sound that you want.
With 15 years in the music industry Frankie Biggz has proved to be one of the most promising up and coming Record Producers by design today....
Creating music in the PC studies about 6years.Often there is a quiet themes, as chillout or downtempo, but sometimes create something faster and harder, either electric or rock....
(dj) ROYCE has been mixing since the drinking age was 19, and he just keeps getting better. In 2005 while working on a new radio station with a good friend he started a radio show called THE RETRO REMIX DANCE PARTY with (dj) ROYCE. This show would soon be heard by a canadian producer / DJ who had a show weekly on SIRIUS SATELLITE RADIO....
Your studio is full of expensive, hi-tech equipment. It all sounds great. But something is letting you down badly, and really it doesn't have to be that way...
Calvin wrote this song on the way to the studio. He banged it out on his guitar and the band played it a few times as they worked out exactly what he wanted....
I do everything in the box. I have a Dell dual xeon 3.2 GHz processor w/ 4 GB of RAM computer. I use Cubase SX 2/3 and various VST's....
This recording (and the entire album) was made with minimal gear. I used GarageBand 2.0 with a PreSonus Inspire interface and a Soundcraft Compact4 mixer....
Every recording enthusiast should have at least one truly great microphone in their collection. Is this vintage tube recreation the one for you?
Well, this was recorded live in pure acoustic setting as a promotional single of Cebu Philippines indie rock artist Jeanine Maningo in 2005....
This song came about when I heard an announcer on the Weather Channel giving his hurricane prediction for the coming year. He said he expected seventeen storms to come down on us, and I grabbed my lyrics pad....
We are what the rap game is missing.I say we because I want to make sure that I tell everyone that from the heartland to the south we are put together a new sound....
So you won a vintage tube microphone on eBay. It cost you $10,000 or more. But did you buy a classic, or something that should have been thrown on the scrap heap years ago?
Microphones are the most inconsistent products in the whole of audio (apart from loudspeakers that is!). But why do they sound different? Isn't there such a thing as the perfect mic?
Creativity is one of those things which makes humans so special. But could there ever be a day when computers are composers, theoretical physicists, or artists? There are already a number of projects in artificial intelligence that try to recreate creativity in computers......
My primary recording vice is software. Most times I use Pro Tools 7.4 on my PC. However, I do sometimes use Cubase, Sonar, or Acid....
My name is Ed Cobb and I play Drums in Low 90. I also recorded this song in my newly built home studio. I have been using Sony Vegas for about 6 -7 years and currently own Vegas 8.0 Pro. I am using an HP with an AMD Athlon 64x2 dual core processing 3800 with 4 gigs of ram of which 3.43 are seen and or used by the computer. Here is a basic lay out. I have 2 rooms set up one is the live room and one is the control room. I have installed acoustic sound foam in the control room covering about 50% of the room. It has made a huge difference in the listening environment, and made mixing a lot easier. I have yet to touch the live room but it is coming....
'It is probably the most common ambition in music. But many people want to become a record producer without really understanding what it means. Here's the primer...'
Why do people persist in recording in inadequate home studios when there are pro studios that could do a much better job?
Doppler phasing is an effect that cannot be achieved by any effects unit, stomp box or plug-in. And all you need is the equipment you probably already have. Dare to sound different...
'Electronic drum sets may not have all the subtlety of acoustic drums, but they have other advantages. Electronic drums are surprisingly popular...'
Tuetonica 12 string acoustic/electronic home recording musican living in melbourne australia
I released my first debut album in 2006, The Art of Living, it has a funky groove, creating sweet sensations to the listening ear. The CD has its own flavor, with a very soulful touch. It is a grooved filled production that is reminiscent of the kind of music Grover Washington Jr. made....
Do your recordings have warmth? But does the amount of warmth vary with the signal level? Wouldn't you like it to be more consistent...
Electronic drum sets may not have all the subtlety of acoustic drums, but they have other advantages. Electronic drums are surprisingly popular...
'Yes, at last we can be sure that vinyl is dead. Like Rasputin, it took a while to give up the ghost. But finally it is a full six feet under. Here is the proof... '
'Sure' is the first great song we had written as a couple way back 2004. We love the plain acoustic version, and I attempted to record the complete band version after several request from the artist fans...
The first recordings we did were using two condenser mics set up in a rumpass room. The whole process was very quick and the finished product was good enouh for a demo. All tracking, mixing and mastering was done on Cubase....
PROFILE TEUTONUICA...
Well first of all this is just a sample we recorded using a M-Audio Delta 10/10 and peavey 12 input mixer....
This was a track I recorded in '96, for my solo project
If you want to achieve a fatter sound, then EQ and compression will be your main tools. But there's another way to boost fatness to undreamed proportions...
An RP visitor enquires whether the Genelec 8240A with digital inputs and DSP is suitable for the home recording studio. Hmm...
'Thinking of mastering your own recordings, in your home recording studio? Well here is a million-selling producer who wouldn't dream of doing his own mastering, even in a pro studio.'
When I'm recording and mixing for myself, friends and family on Pro Tools LE (it's kind of cool in a way to think you're the only person on the planet...
Thinking of mastering your own recordings, in your home recording studio? Well here is a million-selling producer who wouldn't dream of doing his own mastering, even in a pro studio.
There is so much folklore about soundproofing, but the science and technology is easy to understand. Perhaps because it is expensive and difficult to achieve really good results, people look for 'magic' solutions....
'This track started as a rhythmic experiment. The idea was to write a piece which had a triplet at the beginning and end of each bar. I opened up Sibelius 4 and quickly jotted down what you can hear as the first few bars of the piece. I'm of the opinion that repetition is a very useful tool to make a person listen closely to a small section of music, and is especially effective when that section is a little quirky, so I copy-pasted that over a couple of bars. I than exported a midi file which I imported into Reason 3....'
I'm a guitar player, but nearly every song that I record begins on keyboard. I generally create a click track, or basic drum groove on an MPC 2000, then I play through a series of chords until I find a combination that moves a melody within me....
Protools MIDI, Kurz, yamaha and Roland synths....
We, JD FOX, are 2 song writers that have been writing songs for years. We have 2 albums out and are in the process of writing the third album....
This song was recorded in my 8-track
Amplifiers can be either symmetrical or asymmetrical. A symmetrical amplifier has both positive and negative power supply rails and the signal rises and falls centered on the 0 volts point exactly in between. An asymmetrical amplifier has only one power supply rail and the signal is biased to a voltage midway between zero volts and the power supply voltage...
Both the original Minimoog and the Midi Mini have three oscillators and a reference oscillator producing the standard 440Hz tuning tone. If you need to tune the instrument, the best advice would be to ditch the internal reference as a long term standard of correct pitch because this might drift, or be adjusted incorrectly...
'An RP visitor tries using Neumann mics for PA. It doesn't work out. In fact it goes horribly, horribly wrong...'
So you bought a vintage Neumann, at last. Who would have thought that a mic from the 50s or 60s might NOT have a tube?
Why do capacitor microphones sizzle? Does the sound make you hungry for a fry-up? What can be done?
'Is it really possible to get a state-of-the-art mic preamp for just $5. Possibly it is. So why would anyone pay $1000 or more?'
This track started as a rhythmic experiment. The idea was to write a piece which had a triplet at the beginning and end of each bar. I opened up Sibelius 4 and quickly jotted down what you can hear as the first few bars of the piece. I'm of the opinion that repetition is a very useful tool to make a person listen closely to a small section of music, and is especially effective when that section is a little quirky, so I copy-pasted that over a couple of bars. I than exported a midi file which I imported into Reason 3....
I am a solo artist,producer, writer.I record in my home studio on Alesis ADAT with Yamaha mixers and MXL Tube mics. I record drums tracks first then, guitar, keyboards, leads, vocal, bass....
You want to make money from your studio, right? But if music currently isnt doing it for you, perhaps you need to explore alternative outlets.
Science Vs Nature (SVN) is Christian Aydt and Kiley Thompson. Whenever we have vocalists, the 'Verses' comes into play. We are located in Brooklyn, and have been mastering our sound for about 7 years...
Producer Rick Johnson summarizes the recording of Melanie Johnson's new CD, Soul of a Spy, available from CD Baby
'The Auto-Tune debate is unlikely to go away. Those who can, sing. Those who can't...'
We recorded this using PC With Cubase SX 3.0. 24bit/96khz. Focusrite Saffire, Presonus Firepod, Art Pro Channel....
Well this record was produced, recorded and mixed in my home studio....
Step 1. I wrote the song on my gitar and the arrangements on a Roland E15 used as a MIDI keyboard....
This song, Hyvin Hiljaa (Very Quietly), was recorded in the spring of 2006 with my old studio equipment in my basement studio, so it was a mixed bag of everything I happened to own at the moment....
Ratcliff Bailey is Tim Ratcliff and Ken Bailey, long-time collaborators who work out of The Upper Green, our personal Studio in Ironton, Ohio, USA....
An RP reader has been asked to make a radio station ident. How much is this worth in dollars and cents?
Purple Haze by Jimi Hendrix played on instruments from the middle ages. And you thought the 1970s were weird.
'An RP reader has started a producer management company and has already assembled a hot team. But who should pay whom?'
Being in house at Jupiter Records, it is the feel of a true home studio that gives me the edge through relaxation....
After spending about $1700 for a 5 song demo at a local studio, the drummer and I decided to build our own studio. It is a basement studio, but we have a vocal booth and a drum booth. For the small amount of money we have invested I think we get a decent sound. I would love input from others on what they think....
An RP reader has started a producer management company and has already assembled a hot team. But who should pay whom?
The Auto-Tune debate is unlikely to go away. Those who can, sing. Those who can't...
'Get this right and recording will be plain sailing, all the way from idea to master. Get it wrong and you're in big trouble...'
I enjoy the simplicity of Fruityloops to give a brief understanding to my works. I also work with Protools,but to get my ideas down quickly as possible fruityloops is my favorite tool....
Blues Crossing is: Mike Lyzenga and Ray Hensley. We use a BOSS BR1600 digital recorder. CAD GXL2400 condenser mic along with Shure 57 and 58 mic's. We use Taylor, Seagul, Samick, Washburn and Martin guitars...
The idea about recording 'Thoughts', my last CD in solo guitar, cames from years of practicing and performing improvisation, both in jazz and contemporary music.
If you havent realized that recording is difficult, then either you are a natural, or you just dont know that your recordings are not good enough yet.
If you are recording alone, you're struggling and you probably don't realize. With an assistant, not only can you work faster, your recordings will be better too.
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