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5 Tips To Prep Your Tracks For Mastering
5 Tips To Prep Your Tracks For Mastering Throughout more than 40 years in the music industry as a...
How To Maintain Perspective in The Limitless Realm of Digital Recording
How To Maintain Perspective in The Limitless Realm of Digital Recording As we find ourselves...
20 MIDI Tips To Improve Your Tracks Now
MIDI limiting. No hardware needed—add a constant value to MIDI velocities to create limiting (Fig. 1). After limiting, if needed subtract a constant to set the ceiling. Sometimes DAWs beat MIDI. The...
Cut The Crap: What is a Filter & Why is it Your Most Important Mix Tool?
Cut The Crap: What is a Filter & Why is it Your Most Important Mix Tool? Welcome to the wonderful world of music mixing! Your assignment today is to make everything sound great: huge drums,...
WATCH NOW – Basic Recording Techniques: The Mandolin (via Audio-Technica)
Our friends at Audio-Technica have a new series of "how to" videos up on YouTube. Below we're sharing the clip on basic recording techniques to capture the perfect mandolin sound. Enjoy!...
5 Cool Ways to Incorporate Tape in Your Next Recording Project
5 Cool Ways to Incorporate Tape in Your Next Project For some odd reason we often discuss the use of tape as some sort of analog vs. digital theoretical battle, when the truth is quite the opposite....
7 Must-Haves for Session Musicians Recording at Home
Modern technology has drastically changed the nature of working as a session musician. These days, many session players have almost as much skill as audio engineers and run their own studios where...
How To Use Tape as an Effect During The Mixing Process
DIGITAL, YOUR GRANDPA & TAPE’S CHARM Tape machines are like your grandfather. They’re old, and cranky, and require patience and tender loving care. But just like Grandpa, if you take the time...
The Artist’s Perspective: Save Money Recording to Tape By Nailing It The First Time
Pat McGee on Analog Recording I knew I wanted to record to tape before I even wrote the songs. Last year I went out and bought a turntable and a few albums that sparked the fire in me as a young...
How To Successfully Achieve Analog Warmth With Digital Tape Plug-Ins
AND THEN THERE WAS PRO TOOLS… Recording has been a part of my life for more than 35 years. I started in the analog tape world, and I’m still in the analog tape world at the studio that I work at. I...
Learn Why Drums Sound So Much Better Recorded to Tape
Yum! Drums On Tape Taste So Much Better And Why Committing To Choices Yields Better Recordings Recording to analog tape is in my top drawer of favorite subjects. Combine my love of drums as both a...
Veteran Producer Eric Lilavois on Analog’s Resurgence, Plug-Ins & The Real Benefits of Tape
Veteran Producer Eric Lilavois’s Thoughts on The Format’s Modern Resurgence EMBRACING THE RESURGENCE There’s a word resurfacing in the studio world that has become more and more unfamiliar to...