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Monday, December 26, 2011
Bobby Owsinski 12/26/11 02:48 PM,This article is provided by Bobby Owsinski. If you’re doing a session in Los Angeles and you want your drums to instantly sound great, then your first call is to the Drum Doctors to either rent a fantastic sounding kit, or have your kit tuned. Ross Garfield is the “Drum Doctor” and you’ve heard his drum sounds on platinum recordings from Bruce Springsteen, Rod Stewart, Metallica, Dwight Yokum, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters, Lenny Kravitiz, Michael Jackson and… View this story
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Monday, September 05, 2011
Old Soundman 09/05/11 12:37 PM,Here’s one of those situations that make you wonder about your career choice or where you are in your life path. Pay close attention, our buddy Brian is showing us how to keep the disgustedness in check and not resort to a brick through the front window of this fine establishment… Dear OSM: O.K., try this one out… Hit me with it, Bri! Let me have it! You just found out the band you regularly mix for has a gig… View this story
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Monday, August 22, 2011
PSW Staff 08/22/11 07:21 PM, 0 CommentsGreetings, Old Soundman, from the Great North Woods - And greetings to you from my secret location. Dick Cheney’s got nothing on me! I’m not all that old, only been riding the faders for a few years now. Ride ‘em, soundman! Yee-ha!! Hey, did you ever hear of the X Bar X Boys? The calluses are just about right on my fingers and in my ears. What a bizarre viewpoint you have. I don’t really like to think about calluses.… View this story
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Friday, June 24, 2011
Steve Mueske 06/24/11 05:34 PM, 0 CommentsGreg, you’ve mastered over 3,500 albums in the last two decades; what are common mistakes clients make when presenting a final product for mastering? Now that so many artists are recording their own music, it has become much more common to find problems with incoming mixes. I sometimes get mixes that are very bright or very dark, or mixes that have some bright elements and some dark elements - which is very difficult to address in mastering since the fix… View this story
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Wednesday, June 08, 2011
Howard Massey 06/08/11 08:16 AM, 0 CommentsJoe Chiccarelli is a chameleon. Not literally, of course. But unlike many producers whose sonic stamp is immediately recognizable (a Roy Thomas Baker or a John Shanks, for example), you’d be hard pressed to identify a Joe Chiccarelli “sound.” It’s hard to believe that the same individual who produced the rough-and-ready White Stripes’ Icky Thump was also responsible for the ephemeral, moody ambience of the Shins’ Wincing the Night Away or the smooth, slick jazz tones of Kurt Elling’s Night… View this story
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Friday, May 27, 2011
PSW Staff 05/27/11 10:12 AM, 0 CommentsProvided by Sweetwater. We’re running this Tech Tip Of The Day sans-question because it is so important to your music career and your quality of life that it can’t be ignored. Plus, there’s no better way to remind you that May is Better Hearing and Speech Month. So, protect your ears and your hearing! Whether you are playing live onstage or mixing in your project studio, you face a potentially dangerous situation: excessive volume. With more and more people… View this story
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Monday, May 09, 2011
PSW Staff 05/09/11 11:54 AM, 0 CommentsThis article is provided by Bobby Owsinski. When it comes to problems people run into when building studios, few issues top floors and ceilings. What most musicians and engineers don’t understand, for example, is why low ceilings are usually bad for sound. Or, an equally common question, is it better to cover the studio floor with a rug or leave it hard? So, hopefully we can offer an explanation to these and a few other issues in this excerpt… View this story
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Tuesday, May 03, 2011
Dan Laveglia 05/03/11 07:50 AM, 2 Comments“Audio System Engineer” - has a nice ring to it, eh? Very official sounding. Not so very long ago there was a controversy about this title. I believe the crux of the argument revolved around the use of the label “engineer” when there was no college degree earned. But like most things, this too did pass. What’s in a name anyway? The Audio Engineering Society (AES) has accepted me as member since 1978, and if it works for them, it… View this story
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Monday, May 02, 2011
Bobby Owsinski 05/02/11 10:05 AM, 0 CommentsThis article is provided by Bobby Owsinski. Mastering audio is somewhat of a mystery to many who aren’t a mastering engineer or who haven engineered many released records. Not only is the process somewhat of a mystery, it’s a misunderstood mystery as well. So I thought it might be a good idea to do a brief overview, excerpted from “The Audio Mastering Handbook”. Technically speaking, mastering is the intermediate step between mixing your audio and preparing it to be… View this story
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Monday, April 25, 2011
Bobby Owsinski 04/25/11 12:20 PM, 1 CommentThis article is provided by Bobby Owsinski. Not everyone can afford professional mastering, and it’s so easy to do it yourself these days thanks to some great and affordable tools. The problem is that these tools are so powerful that it’s really easy to get into trouble and wind up with a product that’s a lot worse than what you started with. The process that causes all the trouble is over-EQing. This is especially true when an engineer is… View this story
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