Monday, April 14th, 2008
Since some of you want to know what the ES-57 sounds like I thought I’d do a quick shootout with some of my other budget mics. I’ll do a more complete comparison with it vs a real sm-58 another time.
The mics:
- Shure PG-58 ~ $60 – tested with and without the pop screen
- GLS Audio ES-57 ~ $30
- Shure PG 52 ~ $120 – tested with and without the pop screen
- Audio Technica AT-2020 ~ $100
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Saturday, April 12th, 2008
I got a delivery.
What could it be? (more…)
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Thursday, April 3rd, 2008
Recording:
- Sound On Sound Glossary: common technical terms associated with Recording, MIDI, Audio, Computers and Music Technology
- I suck at reverb: from The Womb, great tips and techniques for using reverb more effectively.
- Recording Rhythm Guitars With Darkane. Metal band Darkane give us a look inside their studio working on their new album.
Plugins:
- Studio Devil VGA is now available in RTAS for PC + Mac. I did some Beta testing on this one and it rocks! Very easy to use, zero latency, very low cpu, there’s nothing like it in this price range. http://www.studiodevil.com
- MIDIplugins.com: pretty much every MIDI plugin ever and where to get it on this site.
- Kammerl-Kaske-VSTs, a suite of 5 free sound manipulating vsts with some ‘inspirational’ GUIs. NSFWish
- C. Hackl Stereo Steinway Piano. Based on 96 Khz, 24 Bit, samples of a Steinway piano. This is my favorite free piano plugin.
Songwriting:
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
Apartment buildings are not the ideal place to have a home studio, the main problem with them is the acoustics are terrible. My ‘studio’ has painted concrete walls, huge windows across one side, and is a L shape. This results in a very uneven frequency response, and ridiculous flutter echo.
For not a lot of money I made a big improvement to this situation. Rigid fiberglass is the most cost effective way to acoustically treat a room. Foam only really makes a difference with mid and high frequencies, the panels I made are effective down to about 125 Hz according to the specs of the material.
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