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50 Must-Read Pro Audio Articles from 2013

Five Tips To Improve The Feel Of Your Recordings. When learning to mix – sound is of paramount importance.

Five Tips To Improve The Feel Of Your Recordings

Understanding the ins and outs, and how it all interacts is the building blocks from which any mix is made. However, once sound and the manipulation of sound is learned, there is a further and more important step: feel. People listen to music on laptop speakers, ear-buds, and in cars on the freeway with the windows down. They’re probably also listening to the mp3 version.

Under all these circumstances, the sound is clearly compromised. When dealing with sound, we tend to think in terms of tone, timbre, balance, image, and punch. Punch is how the sound jumps out at you, image is the world the sound lives in, and balance allows the important elements to step forward. The Secrets Of Recording Cymbals. What Can Be Done As The Drummer?

The Secrets Of Recording Cymbals

Ultimately, the representation of the instrument starts with you. Approach the studio like any gig, and prepare accordingly. First, realize that there are “live” cymbals and “recording” cymbals. David Throckmorton, a session player and Sabian endorser, says, “I bring at least ten different ride cymbals to a gig, because I never know what the client is going to need.” MP4 vs WAV. Proper Audio Recording Levels. How to Manage & Minimize Latency in Your Audio Projects. Whatever genre you are working in and whatever DAW you use to produce your music, it is likely you have suffered from latency issues at some point.

How to Manage & Minimize Latency in Your Audio Projects

Whether you are aware of it or not latency can be a real problem in the modern digital studio and can really effect your workflow. To help you tackle this tricky subject I’ll break it down into easy segments, starting with what latency actually is and following onto subjects such as optimizing your system and how to tackle latency throughout your workflow. Step 1 - What is latency? How speakers make sound - Animagraffs. Speakers (also called loudspeakers) push and pull surrounding air molecules in waves that the human ear interprets as sound.

How speakers make sound - Animagraffs

Audio Recording Center: Electric Guitar Tips Article. I'm always amazed by how many people working in home studios think you need a $750,000 console, a 48-track digital machine, an arsenal of $2,000 microphones, and tons of outboard gear to make your tapes sound "professional.

Audio Recording Center: Electric Guitar Tips Article

" It's just not true. What you need is some basic knowledge about the physics of audio (most of which you can learn by dropping a pebble in a puddle of water), and some pretty basic and inexpensive equipment. This is especially true for recording the electric guitar. Trust me--if it were brain surgery, I would have become a brain surgeon and made my mother a much happier woman. And while I have the opportunity . . . for all you kids who want to grow up to be recording engineers--don't do it. The single most important factor in getting great electric guitar sounds (of course) is that the sound coming out of the amp should be great. 16 Bit vs. 24 Bit Audio. This article is going to be kept as simple as possible.

16 Bit vs. 24 Bit Audio

It's just designed to get the new person up to speed on the issues and provide a strong sense of perspective on what really matters. We are going to talk about bit depth and sample rates, how these translate into storage requirements, and then talk about the subjective differences between the two methods of recording your music. 7 Obscure Mixing Techniques Used by the Pros. Most of the time there is an obvious choice.

7 Obscure Mixing Techniques Used by the Pros

25 Killer Websites that Make You Cleverer. It’s easy to forget that we have access to a virtually limitless resource of information, i.e. the Internet.

25 Killer Websites that Make You Cleverer

For a lot of us, this is even true at our fingertips, thanks to the ubiquity of smartphones and an ever-increasing push for online greatness by tech engineers all over the world. As a result, there are countless websites out there that are geared to make you smarter and more brilliant for either a low or no cost. Here are just 25 killer websites that may just make you more clever than ever before. 1. Duolingo This isn’t the first time I’ve recommended this language-teaching website (and app), and it certainly won’t be the last. 2. Differences Between Instrument & Speaker Cables. Ethan Winer. Acoustic Treatment and Design for Recording Studios and Listening Rooms by Ethan Winer Ethan Winer is co-owner of RealTraps, a leading manufacturer of acoustic treatment products.

Ethan has at various times earned a living as a professional musician, computer programmer, circuit designer, recording engineer, composer/arranger, technical writer, acoustician, and college instructor. Ethan has more than 150 feature articles published in various computer and audio magazines. He’s produced dozens of educational and music videos, and composed three pieces for full orchestra, all of which have been performed.

Lenard Audio - Education - Mixing. Page 4 of 5 EQ Equalization. The primary use of EQ is shelving. Shelving filters unwanted frequencies from being amplified or recorded. Eg. Stopping bass frequencies and popping being amplified from vocal microphones. For live productions, avoid at all costs the use of graphic parametric and Q controls in extreme boost positions. Q is a ratio number referring to Quality of resonance. Presonus Studio ONE overview part 2. Presonus Studio One: setting up your audio device. Studio One 2 Drum Mixing 101 PreSonus Audiobox 1818VSL. How To Mic Cymbals - Drum Lessons. How To Mic A Snare Drum - Drum Lessons. How To EQ A Snare Drum - Drum Lessons.

How To Mic Toms - Drum Lessons. How To EQ Toms - Drum Lessons. How To Mic A Bass Drum - Drum Lessons. How To EQ A Bass Drum - Drum Lessons. Blue Bear Sound - ARTICLES. There they are...8/16/24/48/96 tracks that you’ve painstakingly recorded, overdubbed, erased, and recorded some more.... so now what? You can’t play with your mixer’s knobs every time you want to hear your masterpiece! You need to blend all those tracks to (usually) a 2-channel, stereo mix. In other words, mixdown your tracks. Retarded preamp questions.. Retarded preamp questions.. How do you hook-up an external preamp properly? I'm a bit ashamed.

I've been doing this (100% ITB) for a couple of years now, but only used very basic hardware. I'm planning on opening my own studio pretty soon, something basic Foundation-esque and I'm thinking of getting some cool preamps to play with, mainly for drums and vocals. How to Master a Track in 15 Minutes or Less. Twice a month we revisit some of our reader favorite posts from throughout the history of Audiotuts+. This tutorial was first published in July 2008. Jitter explained - Part 1.3. Part 1.3 - The Digital Enemy [Italian version] KRK rokit 5 or Behringer B1031A monitors with weird specs??? Studio Acoustics. Hertz-Chart.png (1178×872) MIDI to Equal Temperament Semitones to Hertz. 10 Great Tuts About Recording Electric Guitar. Electric guitars are the key ingredient in many musical genres today, adding rhythm, melodies and foundation to many tracks.

But capturing a great live sound in the studio isn't simple. Here are 10 great sources of advice, tricks and tips for the next time you're recording electric guitar. Drum Tuning Tips From The Famous Drum Doctor. Studio Acoustics and Soundproofing Basics. Sonex 600 Acoustic Foam.