If you have to ask a pop filter is a noise protection filter or a shield for microphones. They help reduce the popping sound made of fast moving air through your microphone. Essentially when we are listening to your favorite artist that is what makes the sound almost flawless, well besides talent and mixing skills a lot of this is because of the use of a pop filter.
Here are a few more things you need to know about a pop filter. A pop filter is composed one or maybe more layers of semi-transparent material like metallic mesh or nylon.
Read more here: http://www.netnewsledger.com/2018/03/02/use-pop-filter-microphone/
Home Recording Equipment
10 Tips for Better Monitoring
Having the best, even the most expensive monitors’ money can buy doesn’t always equate to the best sound. Because unless you know how to set it up properly or fully understand how it works and how to use them, it won’t be any better than the cheapest ones you can find.
Here are a few tips how you can make the best of what you have today with your studio speakers.
Choose rightly, start by getting the best monitors you can afford. Try a flat frequency response, which means accuracy and accuracy translate to your listener’s system. It should tell you the truth.
Read more here: http://www.musictech.net/2018/02/10-tips-better-monitoring/
Here's How To Make MIDI Orchestras Sound More Believable
Ever wanted to get just a little bit more from your MIDI orchestra? Wouldn’t it be nice if you could work a little faster and produce better results?
Recreate an entire orchestra with MIDI’s great virtual instrument libraries. Sounds almost seem to be impossible to achieve with so little cost involved. To the inexperienced things can get a little dark but with some help, you can achieve so much more. Make your sound more believable, do it quicker and more efficient with these tips.
In these videos, Peter Schwartz breaks down the essentials and the heart of building orchestral parts using MIDD
Watch video here: https://ask.audio/articles/heres-how-to-make-midi-orchestras-sound-more-believable
Teaching Audio: Time For A Paradigm Change?
Today where DAW’s are the top choice when it comes to consoles where does the analog system fit? Digital technology in its ever increasing pace has become better and better and consoles nowadays have come up to par. For older engineers transitioning from analog to digital has become quite an easy task, they just had to find consoles that fit their needs.
After some experimenting Barry Hill a long time audio educator found out that those who learned from the analog had an easier time when starting to use digital consoles rather than those using them for the first time.
Read more here: https://www.prosoundweb.com/channels/recording/teaching-audio-time-for-a-paradigm-change/#
How Important Are Headphones In Your Studio?
A common mistake for most musicians, engineers and producers is to disregard the real value of headphones in the studio. The truth is you can go cheap in other areas but not on your headphones. Because good quality headphones will bring your recording further than another flashy compressor.
Of course this is primarily for music recording. for voice over folks, headphones are much less important except when doing your final edits.
But when recording and mixing music, headphones are absolutely required when overdubbing. But the rule-of-thumb has always been to put the headphones away when it comes time for mixing and mastering. It is considered much better to rely on monitor speakers.
That’s great if your listening room is acoustically great. But when recording in a square spare bedroom that is not treated with acoustic materials like a lot of us, the value of monitor speakers diminishes. The sound you hear will be distorted by the imperfect room. So in that case good accurate headphones are super important to get accuracy in the mix. After that, I highly recommend listening on multiple other speakers, like the entertainment center, Alexa, and your car. Take notes and go back to the mix.
Rinse and repeat until your mix sounds good everywhere.
Read more about the value of headphones in a studio here: https://theproaudiofiles.com/headphones-in-the-studio/