A blog post I saw this morning caught my eye with a question about whether mixing is even necessary. It was meant to be a joke. I think this is because a lot of sites in the audio recording space focus strictly on music. Here at Home Brew Audio, we understand that lots of folks will be mainly, if not exclusively interested in voice over recording. So the question of mixing even being necessary, in my mind, is “sometimes it is not.” A majority of my day-to-day audio recording is done to audition for or complete voice over jobs. Though I sometimes use a multi-track program like Reaper to record these jobs (multiple small voice files or alternating male/female voices), I seldom actually need to mix. I just put everything on one track, glue them all together as one file, and blammo, done. No mixing.
But the article may be worth a look, so here is a link to it: http://therecordingrevolution.com/2011/11/04/
Cheers!
Ken
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Audio Recording
Urban Drums for Your Songs
Here is yet another resource for your virtual drumming jones. Check out Urban Dynamics by Samplecraze, with 312 drums and samples available.
http://en.audiofanzine.com/drum-percussion-sample/Samplecraze/urban-dynamics/news/a.play,n.11847.html
Microphone Tips For Recording
Here are a bunch (31 according to the article title:)) of tips for using microphones to record. There is something useful in this article for anyone who is doing home recording, whether that be for voice over jobs or music recording.
Enjoy!
Ken
Here is the article: http://theproaudiofiles.com/microphone-tips-from-recording-hacks
Recording On The Road…Again
Voice over jobs and my road trips must somehow be cosmically linked. We only go on two or three trips per year, and for all three of them this year (I’m writing from a hotel room as we speak), I have had to record and deliver a voiceover job. I guess I should go on more trips?
Anyway, like last time I was able to accomplish this with my handy dandy Zoom H2 field recorder. I received the e-mail on my iphone, recorded the script on the H2, transferred the audio to my netbook computer via SD card (which the H2 uses to record onto), edited the audio with Audacity, exported it as an mp3, and e-mailed it back to my client.
Check out the awesome little H2 here:
Level 3 Master Class Training Session With Alan Parsons In Los Angeles
Multi-Platinum engineer, produce, and artist Alan Parsons is hosting a workshop on professional audio mixing. The live tracking session is being held in Los Angeles on July 22nd to the 23th in Los Angeles. Attendees observe and participate in all aspects of the recording session. They will get to work along side some of LA’s top musicians. At the end of the workshop, the attendees will take home the mix of the track.
Read the full article here:
Level 3 Master Class Training Session With Alan Parsons In Los Angeles