A friend sent me a private message on Facebook asking me about a recording problem he was having. He had recorded the music for a song, and that sounded great. Then he went ahead and recorded the vocal track, and that, by itself, sounded pretty … [Continue reading] about Getting The Vocal To Blend Well In The Mix
Filters For Fun And Profit: What Do IIR And FIR Mean?
One of the most useful tools at your disposal when recording any kind of audio - music or voiceover - is good noise reduction. I wrote a post about the hidden noise reduction tool in Reaper that is actually just one function of a filter that comes … [Continue reading] about Filters For Fun And Profit: What Do IIR And FIR Mean?
We're Updating The Beginner's Audio Recording Tutorial Course
It's been a few years since the initial tutorial course for audio recording beginners - The Newbies Guide To Audio Recording Awesomeness 1: The Basics With Audacity - was released. And as will happen, the software we teach you to use in that course, … [Continue reading] about We're Updating The Beginner's Audio Recording Tutorial Course
Pre-Roll And Punch Recording: Why I Don't Use Them
Someone just asked about using pre-roll and punch in Reaper. If you don't know what that means, it's basically a way to insert just a bit of audio into an already-recorded track, usually to fix a mistake. In the old tape days, you had limited tracks … [Continue reading] about Pre-Roll And Punch Recording: Why I Don't Use Them
What Do Those Switches On My Microphone Mean?
A reader recently asked about the switches he had on his microphone. He referred to one switch that selected between a straight horizontal line (he said he'd read it was called a "high-pass filter") and a bent/broken white line, and another that … [Continue reading] about What Do Those Switches On My Microphone Mean?