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Thursday, March 21, 2013
PSW Staff 03/21/13 10:34 AM,2012 was a big year for mixer F. Reid Shippen, having taken home two statues out of his seven Grammy nominations. Shippen mixes in his Nashville studio and utilizes the sonic fingerprint of several pieces of Dangerous Music hardware. His two Grammy wins this year are for Best Country Duo/Group Performance with his mix of the song “Pontoon” for Little Big Town, and Best Contemporary Christian Music Album for mixing TobyMac’s “Eye On It” album. Shippen is also nominated for… View this story
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Thursday, February 28, 2013
PSW Staff 02/28/13 02:50 PM,The University of Utah’s Libby Gardner Hall is large enough to comfortably accommodate a 200-member choir, an 80-piece orchestra, and nearly 700 audience members. It is acoustically and aesthetically stunning, with a warm, rich reverb conveyed by wood panel walls arranged in a spectacular geometry. For years, the school struggled to provide the hall with sound reinforcement for spoken word, solos, and non-classical musical forms that matched the splendor of unamplified instruments. That struggle ended with the purchase of a… View this story
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Friday, June 24, 2011
Joe Wisler 06/24/11 04:06 PM, 0 CommentsYou’ve probably seen the ubiquitous “1/3-octave EQ”. (This would be the piece of equipment in the audio rack with all the little sliders on the front.) Unfortunately it will likely have all sliders set the same: A - smiley face; B - frowney face. Both settings happen largely due either to the inexperience of the operator or a poorly designed sound system. Or both. First let’s look at the 1/3-octave equalizer and get an idea of how it can best… View this story
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Tuesday, June 21, 2011
Cliff Goldmacher 06/21/11 07:02 AM,This exclusive article is provided by AudioFanzine. This is the first in a series of articles on eq and compression. View part 2. As an engineer/producer, one of my biggest early challenges was getting my mixes to sound as polished and balanced as the mixes of songs on my favorite albums. Living in Nashville, I knew the problem wasn’t the players (some of whom had even played on those same favorite albums). I also knew that I was happy enough… View this story
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Monday, June 06, 2011
Jack Alexander 06/06/11 09:15 AM,If one follows the literature (and street talk) in both the audiophile and professional sound communities, “equalization” is a very bad thing. If you use it, you get, in no particular order, comb filtering, phase shift, lack of transparency, non-linear response, one note bass, harshness, mid-fi sound, lack of neutrality, proof of your status as an amateurish guitar-store soundman, as well as proof of your status (from the audiophile perspective) as a deaf knuckle-dragging roadie. Standing on Mars, as they… View this story
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Thursday, June 02, 2011
PSW Staff 06/02/11 01:30 PM, 2 CommentsTrain Your Ears has announced the release of TrainYourEars EQ Edition, the first of a series of software programs dedicated to training the ears of sound engineers. The training system works by generating a random processed version from an original signal. After listening to both the original and the processed audio the user must guess which parameters were used to create the processed one. Through repetitions the user will learn the real effect of each parameter (or combination of parameters)… View this story
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Wednesday, May 04, 2011
PSW Staff 05/04/11 01:30 PM, 2 CommentsAs part of TC Electronic’s Global Konnekt project, Mark Christensen of the Engine Room takes us inside a mastering session. The project saw “Let it rain”, written by Laura Clapp Davidson, recorded by sending a hard drive back and forth across the world. Rhythm and bass tracks were recorded in London, guitars in Copenhagen, Vocals in Cleveland and Victoria, mixing in London and mastering in New York. In the video, Christensen shares numerous insights into mixing and mastering, including several… View this story
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Monday, May 02, 2011
Dave Rat 05/02/11 10:24 AM, 2 CommentsIn my previous article, I defined several hard earned (and hard-learned) essentials for stabilizing the audio output of the artist/instrument/console combination to achieve sonic success in the fast paced world of music festivals. Now let’s continue the discussion, noting that a lot of this information also serves as a “best overall practices” guide to apply to all live sound work. An absolutely key set of variables to get a handle on are the tendencies of the artists with whom you… View this story
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Bobby Owsinski 05/02/11 09:05 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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Thursday, April 28, 2011
PSW Staff 04/28/11 03:36 PM, 1 CommentOne of the topics most discussed here on ProSoundWeb is EQ. However, it can often be difficult for beginners and experts alike to take the skills off the page an apply them in the studio. Thankfully, today we have a wonderful video of George Massenburg demonstrating a few techniques using his GML8200 parametric equalizer. In the video Massenberg uses two techniques, one called subtractive EQ and the other frequency juggling. Subtractive EQ is the process Massengerg uses when he turns… View this story
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