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Archive for January, 2008
Indy Mogul – DIY film making
Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Indy Mogul is a cool site dedicated to making cheap movies. The backyard FX video podcast series shows how to add cheap gore to your low budget productions, like ripping a heart out, decapitation, and tearing off limbs. Theres also videos on stop motion animation, lighting, and more!
Maybe best of all, something I’ve been searching for: Encoding for YouTube
Rode University
Monday, January 28th, 2008Rode microphones has launched Rode University, an educational site.
Well really its a giant ad for Rode mics, but you do actually learn about the mics and why you would use any one of them for each instrument. They have a decent explanation of polar patterns, pads, and filters in the tech tips video
Mixing – The 12-Step Program By Craig Anderton
Friday, January 25th, 2008From Musician’s Friend’s tech tips page
TECH TIP: Mixing – The 12-Step Program
When it’s time to mix a recording, you need a strategy
By Craig Anderton
Mixing is not only an art, it’s the crucial step that turns a collection of tracks into a finished piece of music. A good mix can bring out the best in your music—it spotlights a composition’s most important elements, adds a few surprises to excite the listener, and sounds good on anything from a transistor radio to an audiophile’s dream setup.
In theory, mixing should be easy: you just adjust the knobs until everything sounds great. But this doesn’t happen by accident. Mixing is as difficult to master………
Read the rest of the article at Musician’s Friend
EQTV – Videos from EQ Magazine Online
Monday, January 21st, 2008At www.eqmag.tv there are tutorials, gear reviews, studio tours and much more.
I recommend the Guitar miking 101, the DIY Cable making tutorial and the piano miking.
Getting Started Guide update
Monday, January 14th, 2008I’ve put all the Getting Started posts onto a single page which can be accessed via the link below the big logo above.
Or use this link: Getting Started: A Guide To Home Recording
I’ll be adding more to it I swear. I haven’t been because the friend I wrote it for still hasn’t bought an interface and is generally unreliable. Hopefully it will be of some use to someone looking to get into recording.
Edit: I just remembered the logo and links don’t show on stupid Internet Explorer, despite my best efforts. It looks the way I want it in both Firefox and Safari, 2 out of 3 ain’t bad.
