Tutorial articles and posts on recording, editing and producing audio from a home pc recording studio – home recording tips
Shure, maker of awesome microphones, headphones, and other audio goodies has just released their new open-back professional headphones. If you’re wondering why some headphones are open-back and some are closed-back, here is the main reason for both: Closed-back These are great for making sure the stuff you’re listening too does not leak out of the [...]
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The lead vocal is usually the central focal-point of a recording, especially when you’re talking about singer/songwriter type songs where the arrangement is pretty intimate. Besides the voice, you may have a piano or an acoustic guitar and nothing else. So it’s really important to get the best vocal sound you can. Part of that [...]
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Diskmakers, one of the biggest names in CD duplication and replication, have a cool free resource that may be of interest to folks who want to get their hands dirty and do some building for their home recording studio. Their new guide, building a Professional Home Studio, has instructions for things like isolation booths, sound-proofing, [...]
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I just recorded a 1-man-band cover of the song, That Thing You Do, (written by Adam Schlesinger for the movie of the same name) from scratch on my computer-based home recording studio right here in a spare bedroom. The reason I did it, besides just loving the song and always wanting to, was to demonstrate what kind [...]
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When using EQ to shape you sounds, there are all kinds of words-of-wisdom and rules-of-thumb from the gurus. Some say you should avoid boosting any frequency, but instead focus only on reducing (“cutting”) at target frequencies. Yet another tip is cut (reduce) narrow, boost wide. That means that when you reduce, use only narrow bandwidths [...]
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Here’s a tip to help you record and finish long voice over jobs more efficiently (which translates to much faster). If you are lucky enough to have gotten a fairly long voice-over job, such as an audio book, documentary narration, etc., then you know that there will be little mess-ups along the way that need [...]
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Here is a pretty cool article on recording hand percussion. By “hand percussion,” this article means things like tambourines and shakes. They talk about different types of mics you can use, different ways to use those mics, how far to get from the mic, etc. Adding these sounds to your music recordings can really give [...]
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Whether you are recording your own music or working with a music file that already exists (usually a royalty free music clip for background music), there are many times when it is useful to cut, copy, and maybe paste sections of a song. Here are just a few of the more common reasons for needing [...]
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Meet the new iRig PRE from IK Multimedia, a microphone preamplifier (preamp) that works with the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. This thing is, as usual from IK Multimedia, awesome. It allows you to plug any microphone (I’ll say that again in case it didn’t sink in…”any microphone”) into your iOS device. So how is [...]
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Here is a good article on vocal EQ tips. Whether you’re a voice-over person or you also record music, chances are good you’ll want to know a little something about vocal EQ (remember that EQ is short for equalization, which is one of the audio recording terms that don’t really describe what it means to [...]
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