Tag Archive: acoustic treatment

Auralex Roominators Project 2 Review [With Audio Examples]

I’ve talked about acoustic treatment a lot here on Home Studio Corner. Why? Because it’s one of the most important components of your home studio (if not the most important).
Everything you do in a studio is centered around audio waves, right? We’re in the business of capturing, manipulating, and reproducing audio waves.
While we audio cowboys are in [...]

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How to Save Your Recording Session from the Rain

Unless you’ve been living under a rock the last several days, you’ve probably heard about the massive amounts of rain and flooding going on in Middle Tennessee. There has been so much flooding here in Nashville. They’re calling it a “500-year flood,” whatever that means.
It will be a long time before this area fully recovers. [...]

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Check Your Mixes EVERYWHERE

Right now I’m sitting in my studio. Later this afternoon I need to do a final mix-down on a song. Everything is pretty close to where it needs to be. Now it just comes down to the final tweaks, automation moves, etc.
However, before I can smile and say, “Done!” I need to check my mix [...]

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Ask Joe #17

Time for another rousing edition of Ask Joe. Today I’ve got seven questions. They deal with:

comparing home recording to professional recordings
using hardware processing with your DAW
tube mic care
using Pro Tools on two computers
acoustic treatment
time compression & expansion
mixing, mastering, etc.

Listen here:
Or you can download the mp3 here. [11 minutes, 7.5 MB]

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Low End Woes

This is another guest post from Fathomless Regression. Acoustic treatment is SO important. In fact, stay tuned for an announcement for an upcoming acoustic treatment webinar.
I’m ashamed to say it but for almost three years I was mixing and recording in a space that had no acoustic treatment. I’m hanging my head in shame as [...]

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Acoustic Treatment vs. Digital Room Correction

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This past weekend I had the pleasure of attending a seminar given by Gavin Haverstick of Auralex Acoustics. The topic of the seminar was how to measure the acoustic issues of your room. He talked about various measurement techniques and devices.
All of this was very interesting, but the most fascinating part for me [...]

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Homemade Reflection Filter (With Audio Examples)

In the recent shoot-out I did between the Shure SM7B and SM58, I discussed some of the reasons why you would use a dynamic microphone for lead vocals as opposed to a condenser.

One of the main reasons is that dynamics tend to pick up less of your room, so if you have a noisy room or [...]

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Do-It-Yourself Acoustic Treatment

I’m out of town this weekend playing a show, but I wanted to put up a quick post regarding acoustic treatment. As you may recall, I recently posted an article on acoustic treatment.
One of the commenters on the article, Jon from AudioGeekZine.com, posted a very cool link that I wanted to re-emphasize. While I love [...]

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