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Archive for March, 2009
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
The third Mix This project has started over at the Home Recording Forum <- referral link
This time the project is an instrumental Latin style soundtrack.
Participate in the Mix This #3 project here: Mix This #3. It’s in the members only section so you must sign up to participate or get the files.
If you’re looking for some multitrack projects to practice mixing on, this is for you.
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The first Mix This session is here.
The Second Mix This session is here.
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Wednesday, March 25th, 2009
Mastering is a dark and mysterious magic, becoming a Mastering Engineer involves a dedication to the dark arts and eating a goat’s head.
Actually, that’s not true, though sometimes it seems that way.
What is Mastering?
Mastering is the final step in the creation of an album before duplication. Mastering is all about the big picture, how the collection of songs works together as an album, and getting the album to sound good on most systems, from HI-FIs to iPods. Mixing is taking a bunch of tracks and making it sound great, Mastering is taking those great mixes and making them even better. It’s the final step of sonic correction and sonic enhancement.
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Wednesday, March 18th, 2009
The SE Electronics Reflexion Filter is a good product. It’s designed to block room noise and reflections from getting into your microphone and it does a decent job, not as good as a proper vocal booth, but it does make an audible improvement.
My only real complaint about the product is the way it mounts to a stand. It’s trying to defy the basic physics concepts, namely leverage and gravity. Look at the picture above and try to disagree. One of my favorite sections of Sound On Sound Magazine is the Studio S.O.S. articles. Quite often they bring in the Reflexion Filters to home studios and they mention that they usually modify the mounting bracket. I’ve yet to see just what they do, but just knowing that it can be improved got me experimenting.
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Thursday, March 12th, 2009
Last week for the Home Recording Show I interviewed Russ Hughes of the AIR User Blog. Russ is such a cool guy and the community and content he is creating deserves more attention.
Listen to the interview here: THRS show # 26
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Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
This was just posted on the Phil Jackson fan club facebook page.
Nice.
Here’s the video
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Friday, March 6th, 2009
As you may know, Firewire technology is a huge source of frustration for me and many others. This article will hopefully clear up some confusion and alleviate or avoid some frustration for other pc users.
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