How To Be a Famous Singer

April 19, 2012

famous singerIf you are asking how to be a famous singer, you will probably get a dozen different answers from a dozen different people. But one thing you can be absolutely sure of is that you will need a recording of yourself singing. This article will show how you can do that.

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SE Electronics sE X1 Project Studio Bundle

April 18, 2012

The following is a guest post from Steven Williams. The sE Electronics X1 Bundle is an affordable complete recording solution for vocalists, acoustic guitarists, strings etc. This combination consists of the award winning sE X1 large diaphragm condenser microphone and sE Project Studio Reflexion Filter to ensure only the highest quality recording yet maintaining a [...]

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3 Tips For Recording Stereo Voice

April 10, 2012

There are several ways you can create a stereo effect when recording a voice, like a lead vocal in a song or as an effect in a voice over production. But first, let’s talk about why you might want to do this. A clean and clear solo voice is the most natural and usually the [...]

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Mixing For Loudness

April 4, 2012

There is a tendency for musicians to want loud mixes.  This is not an inherently bad thing. There is even a term now to describe the phenomenon: “loudness wars.”  Who will win? But often people do bad things to their audio, such as squash it with compression so they can turn everything up to the [...]

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Review of the Audio-Technica ATH-M50 Headphones

April 3, 2012

Audio-Technica ATH-M50 HeadphonesI have been using a new pair of headphones – the Audio-Technica ATH-M50 – and saying bad words, because they are revealing details (not the good kind) of my recordings about which I have been blissfully unaware. This is a GOOD thing. The ideal for any kind of monitoring in your home recording studio is accuracy. The more flaws you can detect in your audio, the more you can tweak and fix that audio. As a result, your finished product will be that much better. [...]

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ReaFIR Madness – The Hidden Noise Reduction Tool in Reaper

April 3, 2012
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Reaper audio recording software is awesome, and is what I recommend to everyone.  I use it every day.  And I also seem to learn something new about it every day.  It has an incredible noise reduction tool built right in that I just discovered recently.  The reason I didn’t know about it sooner is primarily [...]

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Audio Fanzine Picks The Top 10 Products of Musikmesse 2012

April 1, 2012

Musikmesse is a huge fair/expo/trade-show focusing on all things to do with music, from creating it to recording or performing it.   This year’s Musikmesse was held in Frankfurt, Germany and just wrapped.  The folks at Audio Fanzine (an awesome site for folks with a home recording studio) had boots on the ground for the [...]

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Fast and Cheap Ways To Improve Your Recordings and Mixes

March 31, 2012

Like I always say (yes, there is never a time when I am not saying it;)), audio recording quality is more about knowledge than about the gear you use.  If you can’t afford to upgrade your home recording studio with better microphones or interfaces or software, there are still several things you can do to [...]

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Reasons To Own a Shure SM-57 Microphone

March 29, 2012

Ah yes, the venerable and ubiquitous Shure SM57.  These are veterans of the stage and studio and have always, it seems to me, been a mic you could get for just around a hundred bucks.  But these days everyone will say that recording is all about condenser mics, not dynamic mics (the SM57 is a [...]

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What The Beatles Can Teach Us About Mixing Music

March 28, 2012

I’ve been a student of recording and mixing for almost 3 decades. In that time the standard “rules” for mixing music have been pretty universal. If not for the fact that I got into it a mere 15 or so years after The Beatles broke up, I would have thought these mixing rules had been [...]

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