28th January 2011
Mastering involves very sophisticated audio processing techniques, It enhances and prepares your final mix for CD replication and/or Duplication. Mastering is a form of audio post production. It's the process of transferring and preparing your audio form ...
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24th January 2011
The lead vocal track needs special attention so it can maintain its visibility and impact throughout the entire song.
1. You need to determine what the best sounding signal path is for that specific vocalist:
This is the most time consuming overly repe...
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20th January 2011
A patch bay is like a sonic traffic controller. It allows you to quickly route outboard effects into your signal chain. In other words, it a routing mechanism that will allow you to send audio signals from one place, to another via cables.
After you labe...
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17th January 2011
Bass guitar recording and mixing is highly understated. A good bass guitar track can make or break your song, as its the backbone to your song. So here are some tips that I (CJ Jacobson) have learned over the years.
Direct Recording:
Bass guitars eithe...
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21st December 2010
Audio Compressors do more than just change the dynamic range of a song or track. Audio compressors do allot more than you think they do and I'll explain what some of these things are.
When using a compressor during tracking (hardware compressor if your r...
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10th December 2010
Gates and exapanders are both in the same family as a compressor and they have the same controls as a compressor. These controls are the threshold, ratio, attack, release, and output. A gate opens and closes when the signal passes across the threshold. T...
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08th December 2010
Reverb is one of the most common and misunderstood effects in audio recording. Please do not make the same mistake of thinking that every reverb's functions to fix flaws or cover up mistakes. That would be like applying ketchup to cover up the taste of ro...
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29th November 2010
If you record with a computer and sound card/audio interface, then you need to read this.
Latency is the time difference between input and output of any digital audio workstation. It is cause by mathematical/algorithmic issues and by mechanical/physical ...
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16th November 2010
You really need to begin with a proper sounding guitar tone. If the distortion sounds thin and buzzy, then you need to fix that first and foremost. Its much easier to get a big guitar sound form a sound source that sounds good to begin with. Crap in equal...
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11th November 2010
Equalization is the foundationtal for getting your tracks to blend together. I wrote some procedures that you may want to realize about when using equalization in audio mixing
Appraise each and every frequency range in every single track and then make ...
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27th October 2010
In my belief, one of the most powerful instruments in the genre of rock drums is the snare drum. If you hear a super-duper rock song, you will definitely hear an excellent, powerful snare drum.
Thinking back, my favorite bands with persuasive and uniq...
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21st October 2010
Mic Choice:
To get a complete kick sound, you ought to use a large diaphragm mic. An example of a good kick drum mic are the AKG D112, the Sennheiser MD 421 and an Electro-Voice RE20. There are many mic's made for recording the kick drum and each mic wil...
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21st October 2010
I had a song mastered by one of these 15-dollar mastering services, if you can call it a mastering service, and it completely sucked face!! I then sent my song to audio-mastering-mixing.com and the difference was night and day. Audio-mastering-mixing.com ...
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20th October 2010
A compressor is an automated vo volume control that turns loud parts of a music signal bottomward when the VCA see's the signal larger than a certain level that was set by the user. This makes us able to bring the overall volume of the song up and in retu...
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