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  • Wednesday, November 07, 2012
    In The Studio: Five Best Audio Editing Apps?
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    Bobby Owsinski 11/07/12 10:43 AM,
    This article is provided by Bobby Owsinski.   Lifehacker recently ran a survey trying to find the five best audio editing tools, and it turned up some interesting and surprising choices. Granted, Lifehacker is not a site with a core audience of audio professionals, but it’s still interesting to see exactly what computer literate people consider when it comes to their audio editor of choice. So here we go: 1. Audacity (56% of the votes) - I can see why… View this story
    Filed in: Recording • Feature • Blog • Digital Audio Workstations • Processor • Studio

  • Wednesday, October 31, 2012
    In The Studio: A Straightforward Process To Equalize The Bass
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    Bobby Owsinski 10/31/12 02:55 PM,
    This article is provided by Bobby Owsinski.   The Audio Mixing Bootcamp was specifically designed for beginning mixers, or musicians with home studios who just can’t make their mixes sound right. It’s filled with exercises that guide you throughout the process to help you develop both your ear and your mixes. This excerpt is about equalizing (“EQing”) the bass, a process that many get wrong, then have their mix turn out too boomy as a result. The bass provides the… View this story
    Filed in: Recording • Feature • Blog • Study Hall • Digital Audio Workstations • Processor • Studio

  • Tuesday, October 16, 2012
    In The Studio: Eight Tips For Mixing For Mastering
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    Bobby Owsinski 10/16/12 11:17 AM,
    This article is provided by Bobby Owsinski.   While so many engineers now attempt to master their own mixes with mixed results (pardon the pun), just about every major label and large indie still sends their mixes to a pro mastering facility. Regardless if you decide to master yourself or use a mastering engineer, here are some tips from The Mixing Engineer’s Handbook to help you get the most out of your mastering session. 1. Don’t over-EQ when mixing. In… View this story
    Filed in: Recording • Feature • Blog • Study Hall • Consoles • Engineer • Mixer • Studio

  • Thursday, September 27, 2012
    In The Studio: Timing The Reverb Delay To The Track
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    Bobby Owsinski 09/27/12 03:26 PM,
    This article is provided by Bobby Owsinski.   My new book, The Audio Mixing Bootcamp, has just been released and I thought it would be a good time for an excerpt. The Mixing Bootcamp differs from The Mixing Engineer’s Handbook in that it contains exercises that take you through the various aspects of mixes. By the way, there’s also a video version of the book available on Lynda.com. One exercise might take you in a direction that intentionally sounds bad… View this story
    Filed in: Recording • Feature • Study Hall • Training • Consoles • Digital Audio Workstations • Processor • Signal • Studio

  • Monday, September 10, 2012
    In The Studio: Here Comes Hyperaudio
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    Bobby Owsinski 09/10/12 04:48 PM,
    This article is provided by Bobby Owsinski.   There’s something new on the horizon that anyone involved in audio should be interested in and it’s called Hyperaudio. Hyperaudio is a way to take audio to another level by integrating some common sense things that haven’t been possible until now, like search, subtitles, versions and translations, and all sorts of additional text info. In other words, it’s a way of adding into audio all the features that we’ve been using with… View this story
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  • Monday, August 27, 2012
    In The Studio: Defining Characteristics Of Great Vs Amateur Mixes
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    Bobby Owsinski 08/27/12 01:15 PM,
    This article is provided by Bobby Owsinski.   Since I’m the author of a best selling mixing book (The Mixing Engineer’s Handbook), I’m frequently asked to review mixes. And while many are remarkable and are a display of great talent, there does exist a category of mixes that, for want of a better term, you could call “amateur.” An amateur mix usually means that you’ve not spent enough time listening and learning, but when you can’t determine why a mix… View this story
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  • Monday, August 13, 2012
    In the Studio: Recording A Great Guitar Sound
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    Bobby Owsinski 08/13/12 10:30 AM,
    This article is provided by Bobby Owsinski.   Every guitar player, engineer and producer wants to record the ultimate guitar sound, but it’s not always easy to capture the great sound that you hear in the room. In this excerpt from The Ultimate Guitar Tone Handbook (written with my good friend, television composer and great guitarist Rich Tozzoli), we’ll look different electric guitar mic’ing techniques. While many believe there’s only one accepted way to mic an amplifier, you’ll be surprised… View this story
    Filed in: Recording • Feature • Blog • Digital Audio Workstations • Microphone • Studio

  • Tuesday, July 10, 2012
    In The Studio: How To Get That “60s” Drum Sound
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    Bobby Owsinski 07/10/12 10:47 AM,
    This article is provided by Bobby Owsinski.   Recently I talked about how to go really old school and record the drums with a single mic. Today we’ll come into the future just slightly and look at how it was done with two mics. This was the sound of many of those great hits from The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Beach Boys, etc., at least in the beginning of their careers. If you look at pictures of recordings in the early… View this story
    Filed in: Recording • Feature • Blog • Study Hall • Microphone • Studio

  • Friday, June 29, 2012
    In The Studio: The Top 10 Reasons Why Music Is Compressed
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    Bobby Owsinski 06/29/12 03:07 PM,
    This article is provided by Bobby Owsinski.   Here’s a list I love from Steve Guttenberg, the audio reporter over on the CNET blog. It’s the top 10 reasons why music is compressed today. As you’ll see, there are a lot of things in the list that make sense. With all the talk about hypercompression (over-compression), we tend to forget that people really do like the sound of compression. It’s just when it’s used to excess that engineers and listeners… View this story
    Filed in: Recording • Feature • Processor • Signal • Studio

  • Wednesday, June 20, 2012
    In The Studio: Three EQ Curves For Effects
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    Bobby Owsinski 06/20/12 04:14 PM,
    This article is provided by Bobby Owsinski.   One of the things that many young mixers struggle with is getting reverb and delay effects to blend well in the mix. This happens more with reverbs than delays, especially during those times when the reverb just never seems quite right. Usually the way the problem is addressed is to audition presets until you find something that seems to fit better, but that can take a lot of time and you can… View this story
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