Sound Engineering
A short shelf, but a useful one: rescuing a muddy mix, EQ'ing vocals so they sit, and why you should point a guitar amp at things that aren't guitars.
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How to Clean Up A Muddy Mix
Katie Gilchrest If you’re working with a well-balanced band or high quality samples to begin with, mixing will be most likely be fairly smooth. However, a lot of elements in recording can provide too much sonic information, causing a mix to be crowded or boomy, with an excess of sounds overlapping i
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Audio Mixing Course | Music Mixing Courses | GARNISH
Anyone who does an audio mixing course should experience life 'out of the box'. Not only is it fun to have a play on a load of real analogue kit, we believe that your mixes in the box will benefit from this experience. Victor balancing up a backing track on the Neve. It is a different art and most o
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Guitar Amps Are Not Just for Guitars
Guitar amps forever changed the sound of popular music, and proper capture of physical amplifier cabinets or modeled amplifiers remains essential to producing a high-quality recording with electric bass or guitar. The overdriven electric guitar sound pushed back the frontier of acceptable textures i
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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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How to EQ Vocals
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. Poorly EQd vocals can cause detriment and distraction to an otherwise great song. Equalization using a parametric EQ is a tool that can allow vocals to
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