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Go Pro or Do It Yourself?
Everyone wants to have top of the line gear and an acoustically treated studios but who has the money to pay for all that? There are so many good DIY (Do It Yourself), tutorials, projects, and guides...
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Be Productive at Your Home Studio
Making sure you have the perfect workspace at home is the first step to become more productive. This biggest thing you can do to improve your productivity is develop a workflow that works for you....
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Equalization: Think About It
Every single piece of gear, microphone and room we use will have its own effect on our audio signal. This means everything we record has been changed or equalized in a variety of different ways before...
View ArticleNashville Audio Engineer On Pensado’s Place
Justin Niebank is one of the most talented Audio Engineers in Nashville. He has work with artist such as; Bon Jovi, Taylor Swift, Keith Urban, Kenny Chesney, LeAnn Rimes, Brad Paisley, Rascal Flatts,...
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Waves DiGiGrid
Waves has been one of biggest producers of high quality audio plugins and has now joined forces with DiGiCo, the largest producer of live consoles, and Soundtracs to create their first audio...
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Recording Strings
Recording strings can be one of the most rewarding recording experiences you can have as an audio engineer. Strings are some of the most expressive and beautiful sounding instrument you can record. So...
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EQ: Stop Looking And Start Listening
The graphic displays on EQ plugins can be very tempting to rely on but don’t let them cloud your judgement, use your ears. I know we have all do it, let our eyes do the mixing, but don’t let a pretty...
View ArticleResonant Frequencies Across A Flat Surface
This is an amazing video that demonstrates the patterns created when you play a frequency through a flat plate. They use rice to spread across the plate to create the patterns and a speaker below the...
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Improve You Loops For Free In Pro Tools
READ MORE Loops are a great way to create depth and layers in a mix but how can you make them even better? There are a lot of different ways you can take stock loops and make them your own. One way to...
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Build A Better Mix With Less Effort
We can spend so much time when we are mixing trying to get the perfect reverb or delay and concentrating so much on the small things that we do not remember what really makes a mix. It is easy to over...
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The Future of Audio Interface Connections: Thunderbolt
You may or may not have heard of the newest high speed data connection on the market by the name of Thunderbolt. If not you are in the right place Thunderbolt is a revolutionary new connection for...
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The Acoustic Guitar
The acoustic guitar has played a huge role in american music history. There isn’t a music genre today that hasn’t incorporated the acoustic guitar in someway or another. So as an audio engineer, it is...
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Use Phase To Balance Your Mix
This is a great trick that can help you get those tricky stereo tracks perfectly balanced in you mix. So if record a anything from an acoustic guitar to a 50 person choir using a stereo miking technic...
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Commit To Your First Mix
A lot of the time we can get a good mix the first time but because of our insecurity or our want to experiment we end up spending more time over mixing than we should. More often than not if you over...
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Recording A Band In A Small Space Live
So what if you don’t have the budget to book a large studio to record and you have a 4 or 5 piece band? A lot have bands have moved to recording their records at home, in their living rooms, dining...
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Home Studios Challenge The Big Guys
Could you image your home studio competing at the same level as a commercial studio? Well there is a very interesting article that i found in the Tennessean that asks this very question. With the...
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Learn How To Solder
If you are an audio engineer and you looking for a way to broaden your skills, learning how to solder can be a very valuable skill to have. Often times issues that arise with gear in the studio can be...
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Headphone Mix In The Studio
You may not think of it this way but, a good headphone mix in the studio can make a huge difference in the outcome of the sessions. In some ways the headphones are the biggest part of a session and...
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Acoustics 101
Auralex Blue Sky Studios One of the biggest challenges, whether you are recording at home, mixing a track or recording at a studio is acoustics. As an engineer or producer knowing how acoustics work...
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Focus on your Fututre: How to treat a Hobby like a Career
Today we face many more distractions than ever. Video Games, on demand TV, Phones and the all mighty Internet take up more of our time than ever before. These are great and all have great...
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