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wire to the ear TweakHeadz Lab Electronic Musician's Hangout Top 10 DIY Mastering Mistakes (Part 1) This is Part 1 of a two-part series by UK mastering engineer Ian Shepherd, who runs Mastering Media and the Production Advice website. Despite what anyone tells you, you can master your own music at home – with plenty of time and effort. There are a lot of places to go wrong though, so this post aims to help you avoid some of the most common pitfalls. Here are my “Top Ten” DIY mastering mistakes: 1. People often talk about “matching” levels and EQ in mastering – that’s not what it’s about. If you match all the levels and EQ, everything will sound the same ! Aim for consistency but not uniformity. 2. We’ve all been there – you spend hours working on your songs, finally burn a CD and head out to crank it up in the car – and it suddenly sounds boomy, dull and muffled. It’s because even though you’ve balanced the EQ and levels from song-to-song in the studio, the overall EQ itself needs to be balanced in comparison to everything else that’s out there in the “real world”. 3. 4. 5.

Tweak's Guide to the Home and Project Studio OK, so you are new. You have an idea of making and producing your own music. And you feel inspired. Perhaps you are a seasoned musician, tired of paying someone else to produce your music. Perhaps you are building a studio to record your band. Of course, you still can make a large studio with tons of outboard gear (which sounds better than ever), or you can let computers and modern digital multi track machines replace hundreds of functions that used to require separate hardware units. We are not talking about a cheap, hissy, unprofessional sound, like we used to get with old 4 track cassette studios. But don't think just because you have the gear you will sound like a million bucks, automatically. Basically, we consider the studio itself to be a musical instrument. The great masters of the recording arts learned their techniques by devoting their lives creating, capturing and tweaking sound. Because you may be running your studio on a computer, we'll cover that too. Who are we?

Music of Sound Incase you missed the news yesterday VCV Rack has launched – when I read their URL I grok it as CV Crack.. and as per the image below, it felt confirmed after my first jam with it last night… Think of it as virtual Eurorack modular, with the initial free release providing basic modules plus a set of Mutable Instruments modules based on the same code as their great Eurorack modules.. At present it is a freestanding app, but there is a plan to provide a VST bridge and I can easily predict this future: there will be a similar explosion of new modules as per what has happened IRL over the last many years. They likely wont be free, but I applaud the long term thinking of the developers to provide the platform for free, to encourage innovation. Will this detract from real modular ie IRL? Modules I was most reaching for but could not find: an interesting LFO capable of very slow speeds, a clock divider and a stereo mixer. Congrats to the developers

Home Recording Forums Forum Just starting? Afraid to ask a question? What's Going On? Spam-O-Matic Statistics 46517 Spammers Denied Registration 108 Spammers Permanently Banned 115 Spammers submitted to StopForumSpam Today's Birthdays Home Recording Statistics Threads Posts Members Welcome to our newest member, thebeatmakingb Icon Legend Ableton Live: Grain Delay for Quick Sound Design If I was able to modify the Ableton GUI even a little bit, I’d design a light to shine down like rays from heaven on a few of the different plug-ins that come with Ableton because they are pure game changers! One of these would be the Grain Delay, which is possibly one of the most understated. Its plain packaging hides the fact that it is able to create some amazing textures and sounds from anything that you throw at it. One technique that I love would be using the Grain Delay to randomize various drum hits in realtime, and record this process from within Ableton using the Resampling function, then edit the randomly generated sounds for a whole new set. Let me show you what I mean: Step 1 - Find a Starting Synth Patch I’m going to start off with a simple, self-made drum loop that I made in Ableton Live with a Drum Rack. Don’t feel like you need to spend a lot of time on the beat, because we’re going to be tearing it up! Step 2 - Add a Grain Delay Step 3 - Set up a Resample Track

9 Mistakes To Avoid When Recording Your Own Album Before you can begin to think about marketing yourselves online you’ll first of all need to take care of the music. If, like me, you’re making that music at home then you’ll be aware of the many benefits this arrangement brings - you have the freedom to try whatever you like, you don’t have one eye on the clock and you never have to get the last bus home. The flipside is that you are on your own and, to put this gently, there will be no-one there to keep an eye on you. You are entirely free to lead yourself down any number of blind alleys before you grab the wrong end of the stick and beat yourself up with it. Recording at home requires patience, discipline and good planning……and all at the same time…and from musicians. What could possibly go wrong? Since the price of freedom is eternal vigilance, here are the 9 mistakes we made in homemaking our debut record that I’m keen to avoid as we begin our second. OK, off we go.. 1: That Odd Buzzing Noise Will Come Out In The Mix *cough* 9: Back-Up

New Music Strategies Why Your MP3s Sound Bad: High-Resolution Audio Explained - Better Sound, Vinyl, and FLAC More Data Means Better Sound QualityOkay, so bigger files sound better, but what does that really mean? Young said in the interview that when an artist creates something, the master could be 100 percent great, but the consumer is only getting 5 percent of it with an MP3 file. That's mostly true in absolute terms—a 128Kbps MP3 file can take anywhere from one-tenth to one-twentieth the space of an average raw, uncompressed CD track. Professors in professional audio programs have a trick lately of showing students what happens when you take an original waveform, overlay an MP3 version, and then strip the MP3 data away; you still see a lot of audible data left: This is how much you're losing with MP3 files! In reality, most of the crucial data is there—enough to give a convincing, if not particularly pleasant sounding, representation of a recording. For most listeners most of the time, especially when they're listening while doing other things, this is plenty. Vinyl is a conundrum.

Trash_Audio | How to Set Up the Ultimate Desktop Recording Studio Consider it another marvel of the digital age--or the latest evidence that the beautifully difficult, soul-taxing art of music creation has irretrievably slid into the hands of talentless idiots. Either way, with the help of a computer, a few peripherals, a variety of entry-level software and two weekends' worth of struggle, I have produced my first single. It's hardly a secret that musical production has been striding boldly into the digital age over the past three decades. Software that enables instruments to interface directly with PCs was pioneered in the 1980s, and current programs pack all the goodness of a full production studio into a laptop, with virtualized instruments, amps, effects, mixing boards and multitrack recording machines all onscreen. This has had a profound effect on the music industry--lowering the barrier to entry to the point where a small band with a computer, a microphone and a few instruments can produce studio-quality recordings. Multitrack Recording Plug-Ins

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