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 […]
If you haven’t heard of the Bonnaroo Music And Art Festival then you are missing out on some of the best shows of the year. Bonnaroo is a four day festival here in Tennessee that is packed full of some of live shows, art, comedy, and much more! With over 80,000 campers attending and over […]
Recording a brass or woodwind section can be quit a challenge. Were does everyone sit? In what order? What mic’s should you use? Were should you place the mic’s? The first thing that is needed is an general understanding of how brass and woodwind instruments produce sound. Brass instruments have a metal mouth piece that […]
In the studio many engineers and assistants are afraid of hooking up a ribbon microphone fearing that they may damage it. So is there truth to ribbon microphones being damaged by phantom power? Yes, you can damage a ribbon microphone with phantom power, but not in the way that you think. If you have a […]
It has been a common assumption that if you mount a tube microphone upside down it will sound better and will keep the heat of the tube from damaging your microphones capsule. Almost every vocal session i see has the microphone upside down, and most people assume that that is the correct way to do […]
This is an amazing clip from the show “How It Is Made” that shows how a Neumann U87 is made. Check it out!!
What if I told you that you could make amazing sounding music with only 24 tracks? The truth is that you can make great records using only 24 tracks and people have been doing it for years. Since the digital age of recording we have seen DAWS continue to up the track count and now […]
