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Tuesday, September 21, 2010
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09/21/10 10:14 AM,
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Provided by Sweetwater. Q: I’m just finishing up my final year of school, and I’m just starting my first major edit project (we’re talking a lot of edits!). I’m having a little problem I’m hoping you can shed some light on. I keep making these edits, hitting play, and they sound fine. But later when I go back and listen to the whole thing, everything sounds like the edits were made out of context. I know that I’m a…
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Friday, September 03, 2010
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09/03/10 04:32 PM,
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This article is provided by Home Studio Corner. Whenever you’re recording, especially when dealing with vocals, there often comes a time when the mix sounds pretty good, and then things take a turn for the worse. All you did was perform a little processing and suddenly transients that once were soft are suddenly piercing and have ruined the mix. What to do? While you can try to simply EQ the track, that can easily ruin what was previously a…
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Friday, August 27, 2010
Joe Gilder
08/27/10 03:15 PM,
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This article is provided by Home Studio Corner. Have you ever mixed a song and really struggled to make the vocals cut through? The typical tricks involve equilizing out some lows or boost some highs, but that doesn’t always work. Plus, sometimes all that EQ leave the original vocal feeloing flat and lifeless. Another option is to really squeze the track with compression, but even still sometime that doesn’t have the desired effect, and even worse, there are times…
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Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Joe Gilder
08/18/10 03:15 PM,
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This article is provided by Home Studio Corner. On Friday I talked about audio editing and why I do it. If you haven’t read that article yet, be sure to check it out and leave a comment. I’d really like to hear your thoughts! As promised, today I want to share with you an audio example of editing at work. Audio editing is obviously not some huge mystery. For the most part, it’s just about fixing timing issues. As…
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Thursday, June 24, 2010
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06/24/10 05:00 PM,
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Adobe has announced that Adobe Audition will be available for the Mac in a coming future release. Audition, Adobe’s professional audio tool set for recording, mixing, editing and mastering, will initially be available as a beta in Adobe Labs in Winter 2010. Adobe Audition for Mac will bring modern audio post-production to the Mac, including familiar tools for audio editing, multitrack mixing and recording, enhanced workflow flexibility, and optimized performance. Audition will also include audio restoration tools to make it…
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Wednesday, August 26, 2009
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08/26/09 01:18 PM,
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Boulder, Colorado’s Looking Glass Arts, which provides high school students filmmaking and acting tools, techniques, and craft combines top-flight equipment such as Sennheiser microphones, headphones and wireless packages with a teaching style that that purposefully melds technical skills, art, and philosophy. “As the tools have become cheaper, I’ve watched one art form after another,” Looking Glass Arts Co-founder Mickey Houlihan remarks. “Sound engineering is a great example – people used to devote their lives to understanding the tools and developing…
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Tuesday, July 28, 2009
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07/28/09 11:38 AM,
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Euphonix has announced native support for its Artist Series media controllers in Apple’s new Final Cut Studio. Apple has integrated Euphonix’ EuCon Ethernet control protocol into its flagship video suite, providing Artist Series users with hands-on control over Final Cut Pro, Soundtrack Pro, Color and other applications in Final Cut Studio. Comprised of MC Transport, MC Control, MC Mix, and MC Color, the Euphonix family of Artist Series media controllers offers programmable soft keys, wheels, knobs, faders, trackballs and more…
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009
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07/22/09 01:00 PM,
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Cakewalk has just announced that SONAR V-Studio 100 music production studio software has been updated to version 1.20, which includes a number of workflow improvements in response to customer feedback. Notably, the Track Control feature has been improved for all DAWs making track selection quicker in the chosen application. The update will be free to all users. SONAR V-Studio Overview High speed USB 2.0 interface • 8 in + mix / 6 out, 24-bit/96 kHz quality • 2 mic pre-amps…
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Wednesday, July 15, 2009
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07/15/09 09:08 AM,
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Airshow Mastering’s East Coast studios are relocating to a larger facility in Takoma Park, Maryland from its long-time operations base in Springfield, Virginia, with the new facility incorporating two mastering studios, each equipped with an eight-channel Metric Halo ULN-8 interface outfitted with the latest 2d upgrades and running v5 software in conjunction with soundBlade software from Sonic Studio, LLC. Airshow Mastering co-owner Charlie Pilzer comments, “The MIO is an integral part of the design at the new facility. I have…
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Friday, July 03, 2009
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07/03/09 10:39 AM,
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At InfoComm 2009 in Orlando, Crest Audio announced that it is now shipping the CV 20 mixing console, a flexible VCA audio solution designed for applications such as front-of-house, monitors and monitors from front-of-house. The CV 20 is available in 32, 40, 48, 56 and 64 mono input configurations with four-band sweepable EQ and fully parametric mid-frequency control on each mono input. A feature set of 12 aux sends, eight subgroup assignments and L/C/R panning to the Left/Right and Mono…
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