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Fixing Small Studio Acoustics Problems

Jon — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 23:02:22 +0000

This weekend I moved my home studio from one room to another. From a nearly 200 square foot living room to a 100 square foot bedroom. It’s been a long time since I’ve thought about room acoustics and because this is a common situation for home studios, I thought I’d share my experience. This article [...]

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The History of Echo (Echo) Chambers (Chambers)

Geoffrey — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 17:30:22 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoOTbmsdQpo Can't figure out how to embed this god-damned video... Man do I ever love that snare...

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Techniques for dealing with Phase

Jon — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:23:03 +0000

Phase is a constant concern for recording and mixing engineers. Problems with phase can ruin your music, they can be easily avoided or corrected, but first you need understand how these problems occur. This guide will attempt to explain almost everything there is to know about phase, what it is, how it happens, what it [...]

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Phase Cancellation And Comb Filtering

Jon — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 19:39:07 +0000

[This article is part of The Home Recording Show Podcast, coming soon!] [display_podcast] Whenever we use two or more microphones on a single source we need to be aware of phase cancellation and comb filtering. Due to the time delay of the sound waves hitting the microphone elements at different times, partial phase cancellation will [...]

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Making acoustic panels tutorial

Jon — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:05:43 +0000

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 [...]

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5 Reflection Reducing Products

Jon — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 02:18:51 +0000

Problem: Your recording room is too large or not properly treated for vocals, you need some way of reducing the room sound before it hits the mic. Solution: A device that helps to isolate the room from the mic, that’s much more sophisticated than making a fort out of blankets to record in. There are [...]

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DIY Speaker ISO box for guitar

Jon — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 15:28:14 +0000

Rodgre at the Tape Op forum just completed building an ISO box for recording electric guitars. Built inside of a large road case, it houses a Celestion G10L 10″ speaker and a short mic stand on a baffle close to half way across the box. The purpose of the box is for recording loud electric [...]

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6 Problems with the bedroom studio

Jon — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 03:06:28 +0000

I think a lot of the readers (i don’t know for sure, you guys don’t comment much) are like me and do most of our recording out of a single room ‘studio’. If you are lucky you have a closet/vocal booth as well. While it does have a few, very few, advantages single room studios [...]

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The many ways mics effect guitar tone

Jon — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 03:06:19 +0000

Sound On Sound has a great little article on the effects of microphones on guitar tone with mp3 and wav examples. Its pretty interesting. They explore: Room and positioning Different types of mics Mic placement Miking different speaker cones Ambient mics and The Vortex Using Phase Check it out here: Sound On Sound Magazine The [...]

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Acoustics 101 eBook

Jon — Mon, 07 May 2007 02:04:34 +0000

I know this is hardly breaking news, but since I’ve never seen it before, you haven’t likely seen it either. So here’e the situation, you want to build a home studio, you want it to be isolated from outside sounds, and have a balanced sound, and you want to build it yourself. Problem is, you [...]

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