As a home studio enthusiast, I often find myself in situations where the bass needs to stand out, especially when working with synth bass or imagine it is a power trio setup. The challenge is to create a wider sound without losing the essential low-end presence that keeps the mix balanced. Today, I want to Read More …
Category: Home Studio
These are the post around the home studio. Some men want a man cave, I want to record live music in my home.
Studio Notes – Exploring Modulation
In this overview, Berklee Online instructor Loudon Stearns gives a broad overview of synthesis and the function of modulation within synthesis. When modulation is assigned in a synth or sampler the user must define the modulation source, destination, amount, and direction.
Studio Notes – A Rhythm Guitar Pulse
Sometimes you want to feel a pulse of the track, but maybe the drums and bass are just not enough. If you have a strumming Rhythm guitar you can use your automation to make it pump to emphasize the beat. The pumping Rhythm guitar trick first of all select the Rhythm guitar track that you Read More …
Studio Notes – Equalizers – EQ
EQ types Going to focus on parametric shelving low pass and high pass filters EQ allows us to have control over specific frequencies in a sound by changing their amplitudes This means we can change the character or timbre of a sound by altering the partials and harmonics or even fundamental. We can also use Read More …
Studio Notes – Limiters
With acoustic guitars you will hear some strums that are really loud and some strums that aren’t quite as loud. It could be very well played but you will still have some variation between strums. Sometimes the dynamic is quite loud and a compressor sometimes just can’t get a hold of that because the difference Read More …
Homemade Foley Time Lapse Capture
I was recording some noises and FX and remembered to setup a camera and grab a time lapse of some of the work.
Studio Notes – Realistic programmed hi-hats
Programmed hi-hats have way of feeling programmed. Duh. Here are some ways to put some realism into that hi hat part. First copy the track so you have a second programmed hat and you can always revert your changes back. Another option would be to save right before starting, with a slightly different name.
Studio Notes – ADR – Automatic Double Track
Abbey Road Studios designed automatic double tracking and here’s a way to simulate that effect First insert a delay across the vocal that doesn’t matter what the delay is in terms of short medium or long we’re going to set it to somewhere around 75 milliseconds it start it doesn’t really matter and if it Read More …
The Native Instruments Producers Series
The blog at Native Instruments has been putting out quite a bit of content as part of a Producers Series focused on learning music production. I am going to use this post as a way to collect all of these together for others, and then you can pick through what you would like to read. Read More …
Getting Started :: Other Computer Things to think about
Some other Computer Things to think about. Surge Protectors I have been super please with this one as of late. I do not get any $ for recommending things. Hopefully this site stays that way. Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) External Drive or Cloud Storage For this, it is important to have something where whatever you upload Read More …