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Swiss Army Recording Rooms

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Not everybody has the luxury of a multi-room studio complete with control room, recording space, and booths. Many great recordists make do with one room which serves all these purposes and more. Some people even prefer it that way. After all, who wants to run back and forth between two rooms every take? Other than fitness buffs, that is.

Still, while it may be true that a most recordists work in one room, when we talk about acoustic treatment, we usually talk about specialized rooms such as mix rooms or live rooms.

So, we thought it’d be good to talk about acoustic treatment for multi-purpose spaces – the kind of space most people actually record in.

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8 Pitfalls to Avoid While Building Your Music Business

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This article about building your music business first appeared on SonicScoop.com. I reprint it here and encourage you to check out their super informative site! It’s a jungle out there.  Or a forest.  Or maybe a desert.  It could be an ocean teeming with sharks.  Whatever it is, we can probably all agree the music

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The Rhythmic Turnaround: How to make your beats interesting

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Why boom bap boom boom bap is not enough for your beats This article on how to make your beats interesting first appeared on SupremeTracks.com. I reprint it here with permission and I encourage you to check out their services. There’s a fine line in rhythm-based music between repetition and variance. It’s certainly necessary to

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Everything You Need to Know About Picking Audio Cables

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This article first appeared in FlyPaper by Soundfly. I reprint it here with permission (and I also stole their pictures of connectors – I hope they can forgive me!), and I encourage you to check out their courses. You can get a 15% discount code on a subscription using the promo code AJTRUMM15. Unfortunately, you

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The 5 Best Reverb Plugins Compared

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This article first appeared in FlyPaper by Soundfly. I reprint it here with permission, and I encourage you to check out their courses. You can get a 15% discount code on a subscription using the promo code AJTRUMM15. Reverb is like water. You can live without it for a few days, but eventually you’ll die.

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In Studio: Track Band Together, or Separately?

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This article was written originally for the blog at Carvin Amps and Audio. I repost it here, and encourage you to check out Carvin’s amazing line of products! By now it’s an age-old question: should we track the band together as if we were playing live or should we try to get the cleanest signals

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Do You Need That Upgrade?

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This article first appeared in Recording Magazine. I reprint it here with permission, and I encourage you to subscribe to that publication, as they are a stand up bunch of folk! Black Friday will be upon us soon and you’ll be inundated with discount offers tempting you to buy while you can. But unless you’re filthy rich, “discounts”

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Mix Fu:

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Learn, Practice, Forget This article first appeared in Recording Magazine. I reprint it here with permission, and I encourage you to subscribe to that publication, as they are a stand up bunch of folk! In martial arts, there’s a concept that goes something like this: learn the technique, practice the technique, forget the technique. Music mixing is similar

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Making money in music is scary. Subscriptions may help.

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This article was written originally for rebilly.com. I repost it here because maybe it’s useful information. This isn’t comprehensive, and the point was to sell Rebilly as the subscription service you need, but still. Rebilly might indeed be the right way for you to do it, or perhaps Patreon or another solution. You’ll have to

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