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Amateur Recording, Part 8. Microphone Placement
Just as there is a wide range of microphones available on the market, there are also a wide range of accepted mic placement configurations for stereo recording. This section discusses four of the most common or interesting of these configurations: AB, XY, MS, and binaural. AB Configuration The AB configuration is the simplest of them all. It combines two cardioid microphones spaced several feet apart and facing forward, at slight angles to one another. One particular problem with this configuration is that it is subject to phase problems.
Mix Magazine | Pro Audio, Live Sound, Music Recording and Live Post for Audio Pros
CinemaCon opened this week in Las Vegas and brought with it the release of two new Surround Sound creation packages for film mixing. CINEAUDIO with AstoundSurround is a software solution allowing theaters to play back 11.1 or more on existing 5.1 systems with no additional hardware. Here I am yet again, trying to squeeze in a few moments to share what I’ve been tinkering with – on the bench and at school. I had intended to share this a month go, but life and scheduling have been a little intense lately.
Free Utilities & Plug-ins For Pro Tools
A s we start a new year, money can be short after the excesses of the Christmas festivities and January sale purchases. In this month’s Pro Tools feature, then, we’ll take a look at some donationware software and free plug-ins that could be a welcome relief to strained wallets! Plug-in Manager makes it easy to avoid those annoying ‘Try, Buy or Quit?’ dialogues every time you start up Pro Tools! The Mac OS X utility Plug-in Manager from Maison Sonique is ‘donationware’, written by sound designer and composer René Overhorst. For the past 10 years he has worked in several big studios in the Netherlands, mainly as a sound designer and composer.
25 Secret Ways to Get the Guitar Tone of Your Dreams
We've got 25 great ways to help you make your gear sound great and perform at its best, plenty of which are simple “trade secrets” of the pros that you probably haven’t encountered before. Enjoy! Tone Tip #1: Clean It Up Most traditional tube amps have two inputs, one for high gain and the other for low gain, but very few players ever use input 2.Guitar Effects and How to get a good guitar sound.
These sounds originate from people turning old valve amps up a lot louder than they were designed to go, making the sound “break up”. This sound is created because of the way a guitar signal acts in a valve when there is too much signal going into it and also the sound of speakers when they are being pushed too hard. There are also many overtones created, making the sound thicker.