As an amateur home studio enthusiast, you may have encountered a common issue: your overhead tracks sound great, but there’s just too much snare bleed. This leakage can muddy your mix, making it difficult to achieve the clarity you desire. Fortunately, there’s a technique you can use to gain better control over this leakage and Read More …
Category: Home Studio
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Perfecting Snare Delay Timing for a Cohesive Mix
To achieve a polished mix, it’s essential to time your free delay to the BPM of your song. This ensures that the delay complements the snare without clouding the overall sound. Avoid processing the snare drums separately from the other instruments, as this can disrupt the cohesion of your mix. To get the timing just Read More …
Unleashing Snare Definition
As a home studio enthusiast, I’ve discovered that achieving the perfect snare sound can sometimes come from unexpected methods. Today, I want to share a unique approach to using a compressor that can help you get the snare definition you’re looking for. First, I start by playing the song and focusing on the snare. To Read More …
Expanding Your Bass Sound
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 …
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.