Analogue to digital (A-D) or digital to analogue (D-A) conversion is a very important concept you need to understand if you are working with real instruments and recording them on a computer or device. This article is intended to be an introduction to the topic and should help you achieve a good practical knowledge about the […]
If you make music at home on your computer, it`s likely that you have a plug in folder full of software. Things that have been downloaded and that you tried a few times. You probably have a few of them that are your ‘go to’ options for compression and eq but you probably also have […]
Whilst mixing a song today I realised that my vocal track was being obscured by the cymbals from the drums. I had been paying attention and checking that the vocal was audible the whole way through the song and was finding that in the upper midrange there was quite a lot of overlap. Solution: I […]
In-ear monitors are a fairly new invention. They became affordable in the late 90’s but the idea has been in practice since the late 80s. Stevie Wonder’s sound engineer Chris Lindop conceived an arrangement for Stevie’s 1987 tour where they used a mobile broadcast station positioned outside the venue. The radio truck would receive a […]
It is extremely common for musicians in the year 2015 to record their own music at home. We invest some money in a computer, an interface, monitors, a microphone and our instruments and we are good to go! We all want our recordings to sound as good as they can so unless we have the […]
This article is meant to be an overview of recording, not a definitive guide! Recording bass can be tough. Low frequencies like those produced by a bass guitar and speaker need a good recording environment for us to be able to capture them in a way that will be good for our recordings. As we […]
