Too Much Information
Feb 01, 2010
In a world where bling is king, amassing more stuff than your neighbor is the surest path to celebrity. But do more tracks ensure more-better recordings? Layering sounds is a time-honored technique in the studio, and scores More...
Move The Damn Microphone!
Nov 01, 2009
Years ago, I was second engineer on a Christian project where one of the musicians was buddies with a famous engineer who had worked with Eric Clapton and tons of other big stars. This guy—who was donating his time to the More...
Cakewalk Sonar 8: Use Sonar 8’s Dimension Pro soft synth to create a rhythm section out of REX files
Aug 01, 2009
OBJECTIVE: Run multiple REX files inside one instrument.BACKGROUND: Although many people think of Dimension Pro as a sample playback instrument, it also handles REX files very well—you can load up to four REX files (e.g., drums, More...
Tracking: Home Brew Sound Design
Jul 01, 2009
What Is Sound Design? If you hear it in a movie, and it’s not music or dialog, it’s sound design. It’s the sounds of a street with honking cars, people yammering, and raging ambulances—the sounds of life moviegoers expect More...
Ableton Live 8: “Unsquash” overly-squashed audio files
Jun 30, 2009
STEPS 1. Drag the Multiband Dynamics processor into the Track View Selector for the track containing the audio you want to fix. 2. Turn down the Multiband Dynamics input levels for each band to around –6.0dB (click on More...
Cheat Sheet: Cakewalk Rapture
Jun 01, 2009
BETTER SOUND QUALITY Each Element has a Quality parameter that defaults to Std. If the patch uses pitch sweeps, change this to Hi to minimize aliasing. To further minimize aliasing, click on the Options button (the More...
Tracking: Basic Tips For Recording Live Drums At Home
Jun 01, 2009
Most home-studio spaces have some acoustic gremlins such as fluttering echoes or sharp reflections. Hey, it’s not like you spent tons of bucks transforming your room into a pristine and harmonious acoustic environment that More...
Room With A Vu: February 2009
Feb 01, 2009
MULTITRACKS: Otari MTR-10 1 4" 2-track; Studer A827 2" 24-track; TASCAM MS-16 1" 16-track; PC running Nuendo 3.2 on Win XP with ABIT IP35 Motherboard, Intel Quad Q6600 2.4GHz processor, 4GB RAMCONVERTERS: Apogee Big Ben Digital More...
Room With A Vu: January 2009
Jan 01, 2009
CONSOLES: Digidesign Control|24COMPUTERS: Apple Dual G5 PowerMacRECORDERS: Digidesign Pro Tools|HD 3 Accel System w 192 (2) and 96i I Os; TASCAM DA-78 (3)SOFTWARE: Ableton Live 7; BIAS Peak Pro XT 5; Digidesign Pro Tools 7.4; More...
Room With A Vu - November 2008
Nov 01, 2008
NOTES: Drummer Ryan Hoyle has spent a fair amount of time packing venues and touring with alt-rockers Collective Soul, but he says that his focus is now on his newly-built home studio, Cave Studios. Hoyle tells us that the More...
Cakewalk Project5: Time-stretch Groove Matrix clips to match tempo
Jun 03, 2008
STEPS Drag a clip from the browser (revealed when you click on the Explore button) into a Groove Matrix cell. Right-click on the clip, and select Play in Time with Song. Make sure One-Shot is not selected. Assuming the clip More...
Mid-Side Recording
Jun 01, 2007
THEORYA lot of people are hesitant to try M-S recording, maybe because they read about decoders and math formulas and feel overwhelmed. Don’t worry — we’ll keep it simple.You’ll need two mics: one cardioid, and one bi-directional More...
Big Is Better
Jun 01, 2007
“For me, interesting music has a lot of counterpoint,” he said, “so I’ve always been very adamant that the other musicians don’t play what I’m playing. Particularly in a trio setting, having three different parts interlocking More...
But What About The Tracking Room?
Jun 01, 2007
In terms of pure physics, you still have to deal with standing waves, early reflections and all the same issues. In fact, in the tracking room these problems may be amplified (literally), as you may be dealing with loud sound More...
The Big Score: Getting Started
Jun 01, 2007
THINK OUT OF THE BOXScoring can now be done totally inside of a DAW. This is helpful when you are scoring your own video or someone else’s film, and all you have is a QuickTime or AVI WMV video of the work. However, many studios More...
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