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Double Tracking Guitars

Jon — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 22:54:42 +0000

Double tracking is a very common recording/production technique for almost any genre of music. When it comes to rhythm guitars, this technique is almost a standard method of recording with single tracking used only for solos. This is also a technique that is often confusing for beginners.Double tracking simply means recording the same part twice [...]

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Guest Post: How To Use EQ

Jon — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 17:37:38 +0000

This guest post comes from Barry Gardner, mastering engineer at Safe And Sound online mastering. Equalization is an incredibly powerful tool used in virtually every area of audio production including music recording and mixing. A lot of people initially feel equalization is a complex process but I would like to explain it as simply as [...]

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Guest Post: 5 Tips for DIY Mastering

Jon — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:49:50 +0000

As a mastering engineer, I would always encourage home recordists to send their music to a professional for mastering. Aside from finely tuned monitoring set ups, ultra-high-end equipment and the benefit of experience, a professional mastering engineer offers a valuable second opinion. However, if budgets don't allow or if you're really set on doing it yourself – here are 5 tips for DIY mastering.

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Trick Gobbler into backing up other files

Jon — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 05:31:14 +0000

Do you have kids? Think about losing every photo of them from birth to now with no way to replace them. Not a good feeling right? To avoid this terrible feeling, get a solid offsite backup plan. Cheer up now, I have a plan. I was looking for a way to safely backup my some [...]

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Using Guitar Pedals For Mixing

Jon — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 01:24:25 +0000

Today I’m sharing something I’ve been doing a lot lately and can make mixing a lot of fun. Use guitar pedals for mixing Plugins are great but its just not the same as running sounds through real analog circuits. You can send sounds out of your audio interface, tweak the pedal settings and even ‘play’ [...]

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How to Create a Duplication-Ready Master in Wavelab

Jon — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 22:01:27 +0000

This is a guest post from Samuel Allen of Extreme Studios in Perth, Australia. This article has been edited, the original can be found here. This is a quick how-to for the technical aspects of preparing a master CD in Wavelab. This article does not explain audio processing techniques for mastering such as How to [...]

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3 Mid-Side Processing Tricks

Jon — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 05:39:17 +0000

In this article I’ll explain how I use Mid-Side processing on stereo sources for practical or creative effects. Mid-Side? Two channels of audio can be combined in a way that gives us control over what is the same in each signal, the middle, and what is different, the sides. The middle is where the kick [...]

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Video: Bass Guitar Recording Techniques

Jon — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:30:13 +0000

The final video series on recording techniques from Recording Magazine is on electric bass guitar. This 4-part video demonstrates several microphones, placement and distance, combinations of mics, DI boxes and reamping. CLICK HERE to go to the Recording Magazine video page for this lesson. Video: Bass Guitar Recording Techniques is a post from: Audio Geek [...]

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Video: Electric Guitar Recording Techniques

Jon — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:30:11 +0000

This 4-part video series from Recording Magazine demonstrates mic placement, types, proximity effect, reamping, and much more. Awesome videos, the only complaint is that the high-gain tone they got was absolute crap. CLICK HERE or on the image below to go to the Recording Magazine Website. Video: Electric Guitar Recording Techniques is a post from: [...]

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Video: Acoustic Guitar Recording Techniques

Jon — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 18:00:04 +0000

More from Recording Magazine. This is a 5-part video covering mic placement, distance, types, mono and stereo techniques. All the videos Recording Mag has up on their site are excellent, I’ll post links to Electric Guitar and Bass series later today. Since these videos can’t be embedded CLICK HERE to go to the video page. [...]

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