Why acoustic treatment should be your first expense 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! Being the adventurous, un-monied, and fairly non-famous soul that I am, I’ve been in a ton of low-end recording […]
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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! When I was 16 years old, my mother bought me a 4 Track Tascam Portastudio – the kind with the cassette tape (yes I’m that old). She
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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! The modern recording process has been set for quite a while. It goes: Pre-Production (writing/rehearsing, etc.) Tracking Mixing Mastering Keeping these processes separate and distinct has its
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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! I was talking to a friend on Twitter (ironic start to this I know), and he sent me a picture of a beautiful lake. We got to
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Modern use of drums is different now 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! There’s just something about a live drummer. I’ve said this hundreds of times. Two records ago, I insisted on using
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How to get the biggest bang for your recording studio buck 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! Not so long ago, a recording project required a full-fledged studio. Things have changed now, and
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Listening at the right volume levels 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! I’m 42 (45 now but I think I’ll stop updating this) years old, and although that’s not old, I admit to
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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! One of my earliest mentors was a man named Dale, but we always called him “the old man”. He was a documentary producer at the local public
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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! As I write this, there’s a Neumann U67 tube condenser mic available online for a mere $16,000. Obviously I want that, never mind that 16k is the
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DIY Drums – Part 1 – Acoustic This article first appeared 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! It’s a common problem. You’ve got some mics, great chops, a decent voice, cool songs, and decent recording gear. You’re even
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