It’s inevitable.
If you’re recording music at home, you’re going to have noise in your recordings. You obviously want to do everything you can to reduce the amount of noise in your recordings.
A few suggestions for cutting down on noise:
Use thick packing blankets. (I feel like that sentence is direct copyright infringement on the Home Recording [...]
Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
Which should come first, EQ or compression?
Feel free to state your opinion for both questions in the comments section, but this article will deal mainly with the second. (Although, you never know…)
Esse, one of my Production Club members, emailed me a question over the weekend. (Side-note: Esse lives [...]
Here’s my follow-up video to yesterday’s round of ear training. If you haven’t checked out the audio clips there, you might want to do that before watching the video below.
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The last few weeks I’ve been on a mixing kick. We’ve looked at mixing drums and bass. This week we’ll tackle acoustic guitar.
If you have a home studio, there’s a good chance you spend a lot of time doing acoustic guitar/vocal demos. These may develop into full-on rock productions, but a lot of times we [...]
Yesterday we took a look at some of the problems the bass poses for us in our mixes. Today and tomorrow, I’m going to share with you some practical tips on how to use EQ and compression to reign in the bass.
While I’m primarily approaching this with regards to bass guitar, these principles apply to [...]
Once I’ve recorded, edited, and tuned the vocal, my next step is to reach for an EQ. Some may go for compression, and that’s fine, but my preference is to EQ the vocal first.
If you haven’t already, you should watch my video Intro to EQ. In it, I explain the basics of EQ. As you [...]
Yesterday’s post on things I wish I had known when I recorded my first albums revealed some interest among a few readers for more information on EQ and compression.
I’ve got some bigger plans for the future, but I’m still thinking through how I want to work out all the details. In the meantime, here’s an [...]
We’ve all got one…that first album you ever recorded. Maybe it was on a little portastudio cassette recorder. Or perhaps it was on a computer with free software.
My first two albums were actually somewhat similar. They were both recorded using free software and cheap equipment.
I had a blast recording both of them. I didn’t know [...]
