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If you’re into home recording, you know doubt appreciate great guitar tones… You also know that a lot of techniques can have a negative result and require a lot of clean up work because the source recording is less than ideal.
Here is a little video i thought you’d enjoy on some basic mic techniques for Recording Guitars in Your Home Studio.
http://blog.discmakers.com/2011/10/basic-mic-techniques-for-recording-acoustic-and-electric-guitars/
Hey guys i came across a great free ear training tool with audio tests.
This is a very cool resource for testing your audio engineering and production chops when it comes to ear training, and being able to detect things like differences between volume levels at different DB’s, pitch, dynamic range, and phase! Awesome!
Also and maybe the coolest feature is the tests for identifying and being able to discriminate between frequencies!
Check it out,
Understanding the different ways to record and store musical tracks is essential knowledge for anyone who wants to produce music in a home or pro studio, so let’s quickly talk about the methods of recording.
Of course, you will also need to know how to use audio effects processors and your multi track recorder, or DAW software, but this short article will simplify the studio recording methods.
Live Audio – Stereo Recording:
This means to record audio through a stereo microphone, (microphones that record a two channel digital audio track) thus producing a stereo recording. This method of recording is used to capture room acoustics or a small musical ensemble. (I.E. Jazz band, folk-group, etc.) As many stereo microphones may be used as you have available inputs for recording digital audio into your host sequencer/multi track recorder.
Ya know, Im watching a show on TLC called “Hoarders”… and these people have literally buried themselves under a large chaotic collection of random odd’s & ends – which they feel VERY strongly about, and don’t know if they can “let go” of the need they feel for keeping these generic piles of “stuff…”
They are LITERALLY losing control emotionally and are becoming especially anxious even talking about getting rid of the useless stuff and organizing their homes. I notice the paradox here; See, these individuals are asking for help to swim out from under all this excess stuff, but are’nt willing to do whats neccessary in order to simply navigate through their homes….
There are many mistakes made during the recording phases of music production.
Some are contributed to inexperience in a recording environment – while others are common things we all tend to overlook from time to time. There are a number of factors that can result in a less than successful recording session. For obvious reasons I cannot list them all. But I can give you a few tips from pre-to-post production that I’ve noted, to help avoid common recording mistakes I have seen, made, and learned from.
“Lifes a dance, you learn as you go”
Recording, like any process that is both technical and creative, is a state-of-mind thing. Any single aspect of the process has the capability of being either a launch-ing pad or a stumbling block to better records. Experience brings a sense of pro- portion and circumspect “big picture” awareness that is hard to get from reading web forums and eq recipes.
It is important to work fast. Finished is always better than perfect. Always. In more ways than one. For one thing, you will change your mind about things as the recording develops. There are a thousand steps along the way, and if you get too stuck on one, you lose your inspiration and sense of proportion, you’ll get frustrated and your ears will start to burn out, and you will start to hate the song and the sound.
It is really important to have an organized studio. Set aside a day for this, and it will save you weeks in the coming year, not to mention immeasurable inspiration killing frustration. You need to make it easy for yourself to be creative, and hard for yourself to get distracted.
Recording Preparation and Studio Organization
Organized is a different thing from appearing tidy. Scoop up all your cables and tuners and notes and headphones and stuff them in a drawer and the room will appear tidy. And you will spend an hour of your next session untangling everything and finding what you need. Hide all your patch cables and tie them up in bundles behind the desk and things will appear tidy, and it will take you an hour to get behind there and patch in a “B” set of speakers or a new midi controller.
Bit depth and sample rate conversations are commonplace and can become involved and sometimes heated conversations on audio and music production forums, particularly those aimed at pro level audiophiles and engineers. Invariably, the question will come up… 16 or 24 Bit Audio?
The Bit depth can essentially be understood as the “clarity,” or the resolution of the sound. The higher the bit depth, the greater the clarity, or ability to reproduce a more detailed zoomed in picture of the sonic detail.
CD quality = 16 Bit “Red-book Standard“
Sample rate = the amount of times your audio is sampled per second. Cycles per second.
Cd Standard = 44.1k
