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Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Bobby Owsinski 12/20/11 08:31 AM,(Click here to go to part 2 of this article.) As a staff sound operator, your fundamental charge is to make sure the best possible audio is available for every church function—that seems fairly obvious. However, unlike most of the rest of the world, churches thrive because of the efforts of volunteers. With help from God, they achieve great things and do good works. In the workforce, an employee commits to fill a job position, understanding that there will be… View this story
Filed in: Church Sound • Feature • Poll • Business • Education • Engineer • Sound Reinforcement • System • Technician • Audio -
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Bobby Owsinski 12/14/11 11:08 AM,This article is provided by Bobby Owsinski. It’s not unusual for musicians and engineers that are doing a lot of work in their home studio on bookshelf-sized speakers to crave more bottom end. As a result, the first thing they think about is adding a subwoofer to their monitor system. That’s all well and good, but there are a few steps that you can follow that might help your venture into low frequency territory a lot easier. 1. Do… View this story
Filed in: Recording • Feature • Poll • Loudspeaker • Monitoring • Studio • Subwoofer -
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Bobby Owsinski 11/22/11 04:37 PM, 0 CommentsThis article is provided by Bobby Owsinski. There are certain sounds in life that are pretty much universally hated. Chalk on slate, styrofoam squeaks, a plate being scraped by a fork, and the good old fingernails on blackboard all cause a small amount of personal agony, regardless of culture or location on the planet. Not surprisingly, this reaction can be measured with increased heart rate, blood pressure and electrical conductivity of the skin. Believe it or not, a lot… View this story
Filed in: Recording • Feature • Poll • Signal • Studio -
Friday, November 11, 2011
Bobby Owsinski 11/11/11 01:40 PM, 0 CommentsThis article is provided by Bobby Owsinski. Before drums can sound good under the microphones, they have to sound great acoustically first. . So what does sounding “great” actually mean? While the definition of great is different to different people on a general level, in the studio it usually means a kit that is well-tuned and free of buzzes and sympathetic vibrations. This means that when you hit the a rack tom, for instance, the snare doesn’t buzz and… View this story
Filed in: Recording • Feature • Poll • Microphone • Signal -
Thursday, November 03, 2011
Bobby Owsinski 11/03/11 04:09 PM, 1 CommentThis article is provided by Bobby Owsinski. While most of the consumer world is just getting used to the idea of cloud computing, corporations have been using it for years. For those of you who don’t know, cloud computing means storing your data and even your apps on an external server that’s accessed via the Internet. A number of behind the scenes companies like RackSpace offer cloud services, but Google and Amazon also have huge server farms around the… View this story
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Monday, October 24, 2011
Bobby Owsinski 10/24/11 08:07 AM, 0 CommentsThis article is provided by Bobby Owsinski. It’s time for another book excerpt, this time from The Music Producer’s Handbook. It offers some advice about not only getting the click to cut through the mix and making it groove, but preventing any bleed into any open microphones as well. Many times just providing a metronome in the phones isn’t enough. What good is a click if you can’t hear it, or worse yet, groove to it? Here are some… View this story
Filed in: Recording • Feature • Poll • Monitoring • Processor • Studio -
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Bobby Owsinski 10/12/11 06:19 PM, 3 CommentsThis article is provided by Bobby Owsinski. I got to thinking about the pro audio products I’d like to see invented after reading a similar story on home theater audio. When you think about it, we’ve all gotten pretty comfortable with technology that no one could ever consider as cutting edge. Even though core recording products exist in the following areas, there’s plenty of room for growth. Let’s take a look at a pie-in-the-sky wish list: 1. A new… View this story
Filed in: Recording • Feature • Poll • Business • Loudspeaker • Microphone • Studio • Audio -
Friday, September 23, 2011
Bobby Owsinski 09/23/11 02:13 PM,This article is provided by Bobby Owsinski. Generally you’ll find that most renowned mixers use the bus compressor to add a sort of “glue” to the track so the instruments fit together better, but that also means that they’ll actually use very little compression. In fact, sometimes only a dB or two of gain reduction at the most is added for the final mix. That being said, many mixers will also offer their clients (artists, band members, producers and… View this story
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Filed in: Recording • Feature • Poll • Digital Audio Workstations • Processor • Studio -
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Bobby Owsinski 09/22/11 10:12 AM,I know what many of you are thinking. “I love doing live sound but I’m really not that interested in recording.” Or, “Clients are asking for it, but I’m a little uncertain on how to get quality results.” Not to worry, I was there once upon a time before making a transition to the world of recording. If you know how to pass a clean signal, you can make a great recording. It will take a little extra time and… View this story
Filed in: Live Sound • Recording • Production • Feature • Poll • Study Hall • Production • Audio • Recording • Consoles • Digital Audio Workstations • Engineer • Microphone • Signal • Sound Reinforcement • Stage • Studio -
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Bobby Owsinski 09/15/11 03:23 PM, 0 CommentsThis article is provided by Bobby Owsinski. There are a few people on the planet that know a lot about microphones and how they’re made, but not many know as much and have the dedication of David Bock, the founder and owner of Bock Audio (formerly Soundelux Microphones). After all, how many people would go to the extent of teaching themselves German just so they could read the old Neumann service manuals? David makes some truly excellent mics, and… View this story
Filed in: Recording • Feature • Poll • Business • Education • Microphone • Studio
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