Acoustics
Your monitors are only as honest as the room they're sitting in. Choosing and placing them, what standing waves do to your low end, treatment you can build, and a vocal booth on a budget.
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Acoustic Treatment and Positioning of Studio Monitor Speakers
Acoustic Treatment and Positioning of Studio Monitor Speakers: Okay so now it's time to choose and position your studio monitor speakers and just dip your toe into the wonderful world of studio acoustic treatment. More on this on the Mixing and Mastering course Most people listen to music in their c
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Choosing Powered and Active Studio Monitor Speakers
Choosing Powered and Active Studio Monitor Speakers: The positioning, orientation and mounting of studio monitors can have a huge influence on the final sound of a room and of course your mix. I wouldn't go out and buy hi-fi speakers and a massive sub woofer if you have a room with parallel walls th
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Standing waves and home studio acoustic treatment
Standing waves and home studio acoustic treatment: With technology advancements and computer processing power as it is now, the whole process of making hit records can be done in home studios, unless of course, you require a real orchestra! People with home studios often do not realise just how impo
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Recording vocals: DIY vocal booth and pop shield or filter
Recording vocals: DIY vocal booth and pop shield or pop filter: This is about how I record vocals at home with a DIY vocal booth. We cover more on this on the Sound Engineering course. I have a macbook pro plugged up to an apogee duet, pop shield or pop filter, some cables running from my dining roo
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Focal SM9 and Twin Studio Monitor Speaker Demo
Focal invited me to Dean Street Studios for a Focal SM9 and Twin Studio Monitor Speaker Demo ages ago, but I just haven't had time to write about them until now. When I walked into the room, the monitors were set up along with some NS10s like we have here for our mixing course. They looked massive w
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Recording Techniques – Putting The Courses Into Practice
Logic and Mixing learner Nick Burns (Captain Mermaid) tells us how he put the recording techniques he learnt on the Logic course and even the Mixing course into practice when he recorded and mixed this collaboration with singer Rebekah Anne Steele. "I used two SE small capsule condenser microphones
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