Microphone placement is the foundation for any solid recording. Placement is usually dictated by musical genre but most engineers place microphones to capture a good overall balance of the instrument. This article proves to present some different … [Continue reading] about Video: How to Mic an Acoustic Guitar
Spectrasonics Keyscape Review – Labour of Love
Keyscape includes 36 different models of keyboard-based instruments for you to call up at your whim. There’s a pretty huge library of patches with well over 500 iterations of these deeply sampled instruments (which have then been modeled in their … [Continue reading] about Spectrasonics Keyscape Review – Labour of Love
Video: How to Record a Guitar Amp with One Microphone
The first thing to understand in microphone placement on guitar amps is that the sound doesn't resonate from the center of the cone; it comes from the off-axis - or "off center" area. How you position the microphone is really up to you and what you … [Continue reading] about Video: How to Record a Guitar Amp with One Microphone
Mixing With Compression – Attack And Release (Part 2 of 7)
Compression has always been one of the key elements of audio production, from recording to mixing to mastering, the appropriate use of dynamic tools is a very big part of the “sound” of modern recordings. At their most basic, compressors tighten up … [Continue reading] about Mixing With Compression – Attack And Release (Part 2 of 7)
Logic Pro X Tutorial – Stem Mixing
What are stems? Stems are simply elements of a final mix that have been isolated as their own stereo mix. These stems can then be combined in parallel, using the same starting point, to create a similar version of the main stereo mix but with slight … [Continue reading] about Logic Pro X Tutorial – Stem Mixing