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You gotta have good plugins to get a good sound. Below you will find links to all the good-sounding plugins you could possibly want and they’re all FREE Some great packs of plugins: Variety of Sound – Hands down Variety of Sound has the best free plugins I’ve found. All of them sound great, and [...]
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11 Home Studio Essentials Computer – Go for at least 4gigs of ram and at least a 2GHz processor. If you can, don’t install anything but necessary recording software, it will just slow you down. Software – You need some kind of audio program; Pro-Tools, Logic, Cakewalk, Reaper(my choice), Ableton, Cubase, etc… Any of them [...]
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- Choose the right guitar for the right sound. If you want a rounder sound go with a Telecaster, if you want a sharper sound use something like a Gibson SG. Just choose the appropriate guitar/amp combination for the type of sound you want. – Instead of relying on fixing it later, get the sound [...]
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Since last Friday was Dynamic Range Day, I thought this week I would start talking about compression. This is a huge topic, so I think I will break it up into a few parts. Today I am just going to cover the basics. A compressor is a tool that controls the dynamic range of an [...]
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Today is Dynamic Range Day! Post a link to dynamicrangeday.com on Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, your blog, or wherever you want and spread the word if you like good sounding music. Also check out turnmeup.org. From their website: “Turn Me Up is a non-profit music industry organization campaigning to give artists back the choice to [...]
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This week, I wanted to let everyone know about Dynamic Range Day. It’s coming up on Friday, the 25th. What is Dynamic Range Day, you ask? Using social networking, Dynamic Range Day is a way of bringing awareness to the fact that dynamic music sounds better than super-loud, over-compressed music, and is a day of [...]
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This week I wanted to give an update on what’s going on/coming up in the studio. I’ve been super busy preparing for several projects, and I’m super excited about all of them. I’ve got a client that needs music for a promotional video, I have a live show with Joe Threat in May, and I’m [...]
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Part 1 of my series of explanations of popular effects An EQ or equalizer is an extremely powerful tool in the mixing process; probably every project I have ever done has included EQ somewhere in one or more of the effects chains. EQ is a tool for changing the frequency curve of a sound. Of [...]
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Bohemian Rhaposdy I recently found the raw multitrack files for this and some other Queen songs online. Originally I was going to talk about some of the interesting things I noticed about how this track was recorded, but it just so happens that the guys at homerecordingshow.com were also discussing these tracks in their latest [...]
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Alright, so I was going to make a real, actual blog post today…But instead I’m working on this site, so I’m busy with that. I think I’m going to have to get the site straight before I get to posting….yes another excuse. So, just about one more week and the blog onslaught shall begin.
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