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1) Adding More Snares to Snare Drums If you’re presented with an “inherited recording” to mix (one you didn’t engineer) with live drums where no bottom mic was used on the snare drum, or the track sheet says “snare” but… Read More
This article is provided by Bartlett Microphones. Remote recording is exhilarating. Musicians, excited by the audience, often put on a stellar performance. Usually you only get one chance to get it… Read More
This article is provided by BAMaudioschool.com. My first day as a real engineer rather than an assistant was all about bass. The engineer (who was the studio manager as well) took a… Read More
From the March/April 1977 issue of the late, great Recording Engineer/Producer (RE/P) magazine, the principals of Abadon/Sun Studio, which was located in San Antonio, TX, look at the practical and technical sides of studio design. We at Abadon/Sun decided to… Read More
Someone once said: “A good music producer worries about the most important things” and a strong argument can be made that the most important things in pop music production are the vocals. The singer is charged with artistically conveying the… Read More
Courtesy of Universal Audio. The science of acoustics is something that tends to alternately baffle and intimidate most of us. Outside of a handful of highly trained individuals, the aspects of what… Read More
Whenever we record music there are certain “golden rules” that aid us in getting the end results we require. These rules are based on years of experience and have been handed down from engineer to engineer as a useful guide… Read More
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This article is provided by Bartlett Audio. As if by magic, cardioid microphones can pick up what they are aimed at, but reject sounds to the side and rear. For example,… Read More
Courtesy of Omega Studios. Creating a doubling effect to mimic the sound of a “stacked” vocal or instrument part can be great way to add some thickness to your studio production. Read More
After repeatedly retraining a young apprentice on the same task, I discovered myself rapidly losing the grasp of whatever social skills I had retained. We had been working together for weeks, yet he still refused to follow my simple directions. Read More
"We can't afford to record in a studio, so we'll record everything on our sanctuary and you can mix it". Sound familiar? Read More