Are you familiar with the MixChecker plug-in from Audified? This thing is very cool. We’ve often said that if you can’t have a perfect listening room when mixing your music down, then you should listen to your test mixes on as many different systems in as many rooms (even your car) as possible. I always do that. The car listening tests are usually especially helpful.
So Audified’s MixChecker plugin allows you to simulate how your mix would sound on several different types of speakers and systems! I’m gonna be getting one of these. Here’s a video review by Audio Fanzine
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What Do You Think Is The Right Place For Your Home Studio?
Where to put your home recording studio depends on a lot of different things. Most of the time, they set it up in spare bedrooms or home offices. Another popular location for a home studio is a garage. I don’t get that. I am led to understand that some people actually park cars in their garages and I just don’t understand this at all:-P But a major concern whenever or wherever you set up your home studio is your neighbors, you don’t want them knocking on your door when doing your craft.
Anyway, here is an article that looks at some things to help you decide where your home recording studio should go.
Click here to read more… http://en.audiofanzine.com/homestudio/editorial/articles/the-right-place-for-your-home-studio.html
Distortion Used During Mixdown
The word “distortion” sounds inherently bad. Even the definition of the word in the dictionary suggests it is some wrong version of something else:-P. But guitarists have been using it to create cool sounding electric tones for decades. So in the audio world, distortion can often add character and something interesting to your sound.
When mixing down your recordings, the use of subtle harmonic distortion (not the big fat distortion sound from guitar pedals) can lend some interesting character to your final audio.
Check out how you can benefit from harmonic distortion in this article from Audiofanzine: Click here for that post
Review For Waves’ Abbey Road Reverb Plates
Abbey Road Reverb Plates, Waves’ most recent offering, concentrates on a genuine exemplary of vintage reverb. Click this to read more…
IK Multimedia – VocaLive For iPhone and iPad
The primary expert vocal processor for live execution and multi-track recording on iPhone/iPad.
VocaLive gives you a chance to make astounding vocal impacts by tying up to 4 effects processors into a single effects chain, much the same as you would in the studio. Click here to read more…