So what if you don’t have the budget to book a large studio to record and you have a 4 or 5 piece band? A lot have bands have moved to recording their records at home, in their living rooms, dining rooms, and bedrooms. So how can you record live band in their living room […]
A lot of the time we can get a good mix the first time but because of our insecurity or our want to experiment we end up spending more time over mixing than we should. More often than not if you over mix something the best thing to do is to backtrack to what your […]
This is a great trick that can help you get those tricky stereo tracks perfectly balanced in you mix. So if record a anything from an acoustic guitar to a 50 person choir using a stereo miking technic and you get them into the mix and they sound a little left o right heavy, what […]
The acoustic guitar has played a huge role in american music history. There isn’t a music genre today that hasn’t incorporated the acoustic guitar in someway or another. So as an audio engineer, it is pretty important to know as much as you can about acoustic guitar; like style, size, material, and brand. There are […]
Recording strings can be one of the most rewarding recording experiences you can have as an audio engineer. Strings are some of the most expressive and beautiful sounding instrument you can record. So how do you go about recording strings? There are many different guides to miking and processing strings online and a lot of […]
One of the basics of understanding Audio Engineering is Dynamics. Dynamics are directly related to the volume of an audio signal. There are a few different kinds of Dynamic Processors that you should know. First is a Compressor. What a Compressor does is it makes loud sounds quieter and quiet sounds louder compressing the dynamic […]
Every single piece of gear, microphone and room we use will have its own effect on our audio signal. This means everything we record has been changed or equalized in a variety of different ways before it even gets to our ears. So how do we get the sound we want when all of these […]
Vinyl has made a huge come back in recent years and more and more bands are releasing vinyl then you mite think. So as an engineer, what should you be doing to be prepared for this? First you need to know what vinyl really is and what its physical limitations are, and that you can […]
If you ever get the chance to record a B3 and Leslie make sure you are prepared and know how to mic it. The B3 is one of the most popular organs in modern studio recording so you are bound to run across one at some point. If you have never seen or used a […]
Learning audio engineering may seem like a difficult task, which requires years of difficult technical training at an audio engineering school. However, the science of audio engineering is not as complicated as it may appear. While learning to be a audio engineer may take time and a bit of patience, it is a set of […]
