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How to EQ Vocals Katie Gilchrest's guidelines on how to EQ vocals. For most styles of music, vocals are one of the most important parts of the mix. Po...
Drum Miking Techniques: Recorder Man and Glyn Johns Katie Gilchrest's take on drum miking techniques Many considered the drum set one of the hardest p...
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Did you know that YouTube traffic makes up nearly a ⅕ of ALL internet traffic? Similarly, quite a bit of that is music consumption. It’s also common f...
The sound of modern drums in rock, pop, and electronic music very rarely embodies the natural range that acoustic drums are capable of. This is most o...
Whether you’re a budding producer, DJ or a brand new indie artist -- most of the time the focus is purely on the music, and that’s about it. However,...
As early as 2010, if you wanted to put together an album you were pretty much forced to shell out cash to a local recording studio. Or, even worse, yo...
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] By Heinrich Zwahlen The ability to store the state of Macro Controls as preset variations in Racks has drastically...
How to Record Vocals When Producing A Singer - Vocal Production By Chris Porter Firstly, let’s explode the myth that vocals are anything other than an...
by Chris Porter It would be easy to write an entire article arguing about exactly what this question means, but the simplest answer (and the truth of...
Music is a powerful medium of communication. As Shakespeare himself asserted “When words fail, music speaks”. Technically speaking, the music or the s...
Celemony's Melodyne is a highly sophisticated pitch analysis and correction software suite known mainly for its use in tuning vocals. As effective as...
by Katie Gilchrest When it comes to mixing, establishing a balance is one of the most important parts of creating a professional sounding production....
How To Improve Bass In Music Bass can be a very complicated part of your mix. Actually, we’d even go and say that the majority of home-producers or ho...
Reverb is one of the most widely used time based effects in audio, and one of the most fascinating. Depending on how you use it, it can help or hinder...
Audio Interfaces An audio interface is a piece of hardware that connects musical instruments, microphones, and other sound sources to a computer. The...
All about MIDI The MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) standard has had a profound impact on the music industry since its introduction in the...
by Katie Gilchrest Understanding how microphones “hear” is the first step in learning how to mic instruments properly. The directionality of a microph...
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