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Recording Studio Tips – What The Artist Needs To Know Before Entering The Studio

By November 18, 2015 | Category_Tips & Guides>Recording Gear Musician's Arena Recording Studio Tech Tips

I wanted to go over a few recording studio tips that I feel the artists need to know before entering the studio. There are two sides of recording music, the engineering and the performance. Typically the performer is coming into the engineers ‘space’ or ‘world’ in order to capture as...

Seven Steps for Cleaning Up Your Music Mix

By November 18, 2015 | Category_Tips & Guides>Recording Gear Cleaning Tips Maintenance. Recording Sound Console Tech Tips

Saturday, I was conducting an audio training session and I was given the opportunity to work on their mix with the worship band. The mix was pretty good so instead of re-building their full mix, I focused on cleaning up the mix. There are seven areas to consider when cleaning...

Native Instruments Updates MASCHINE to v2.4

By November 09, 2015 | Category_Tips & Guides>Recording Gear Native Instruments Update

Native Instruments has released MASCHINE 2.4, which features deep integration with third-party plug-ins via Native Instruments Native Kontrol Standard (NKS) format, first introduced with KOMPLETE KONTROL. With NKS, supporting third-party products can pre-map their plug-in to MASCHINE’s hardware controls, as well as have their presets automatically appear within MASCHINE’s tag-based...

How to control mix elements with mid/side compression

By November 04, 2015 | Category_Tips & Guides>Recording Gear Tech Tips

Apply separate dynamics processing to the centre and sides of your stereo signals with this powerful technique Mid/side compression is a technique used by many pro engineers for increased flexibility when processing stereo material. By encoding a stereo signal from L/R to M/S, it's possible to compress the mono (mid)...

7 Questions About Sample Rate

By October 29, 2015 | Category_Tips & Guides>Recording Gear

It’s easy to talk about the sample rates for sessions, but how much do you know about it? In this article, I’ll answer a few questions about sample rates. What is “Sample Rate”? Sample rate is literally how fast samples are taken. Picture an analog audio track. A “sample” is...

How to compose melodies and chords with Ableton Push

By October 19, 2015 | Ableton Push Category_Tips & Guides>Recording Gear Recording Gear Tech Tips

Push is designed to make composing a breeze, even if your knowledge of music theory is limited. Here's how to get going… Press the Note button once you've loaded any instrument that isn't a Drum Rack, and the 64 pads turn either white or blue: white pads are notes in...

How to Soundproof your home.

By July 08, 2015 | Category_Tips & Guides>Recording Gear Home Studio Soundproofing

Soundproofing is also known as ‘Isolation’ for the simple reason that it stops sound from disturbing people inside the house or around you. Soundproofing is also important because it stops all the noise from coming into the room and ruining your jam. In the mixing room (also known as control...