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DIY ideas – Use anything for percussion

Jon — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:57:25 +0000

Last week I was recording a song here at Epic Sounds that was just acoustic guitar and vocals. It felt a bit empty in parts and we had plenty of time to experiment so that’s what we did. The perfect $1 shaker First we looked for a shaker sound, not having a real “store bought’ [...]

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Want something to mix?

Jon — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 05:55:17 +0000

I’ve posted a song for people to mix over at the Home Recording Forum <- referral link This is the link to the thread with the files and mixes: Mix This # 2 It’s in the members only section so you must sign up to participate or get the files. The first Mix This session [...]

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Upright Piano Recording Pics

Jon — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 06:19:40 +0000

This past Thursday I helped record some upright piano for Allie Hughes at Revolution Audio. The piano is in the basement below the studio live room. I ran cables down through the floor for mics and headphones. The mics used were an AKG C3000 on the left side, and a C414B XLII on the right [...]

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Drum Session

Jon — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:27:44 +0000

I’m in shock, I didn’t think we would get all 9 songs recorded today, but Jordan pulled it off. We just got a huge chunk of the album done, we now just have a few more tiny extra overdubs to do and then on to the mixing. Click picture above to see a couple pictures [...]

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Vocal recording update and mini gear review

Jon — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 01:47:54 +0000

This weekend we resumed recording vocals, but this time we improved the quality of the signal chain by recording at Revolution Audio. We got to try out the M-Audio Project Mix I/O and the M-Audio Sputnik tube microphone. To describe them briefly, they are awesome. The Sputnik has a natural way of compressing vocals that [...]

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