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I always hear people talking about low‑pass filters and high‑pass filters and cutting at this and that frequency, but where do...
I've been wondering what order people use when mixing. Mixing the instruments in order of priority? Mixing the rhythm section ...
I am about to do a recording at a farm in the North York Moors. It will be done 'live', using two acoustic guitars and two...
I've recently started working at a classical radio station in my area, and I was fully expecting to have to deal with mono...
I'm quite new to vocal recording, and am using either a Neumann TLM103 or AKG C414, depending on the material being recorded....
I've got a fairly basic home setup based around a Yamaha AW16G multitracker, but I've seen an Aphex Aural Exciter and wondered...
I use Logic Express 8 software and an Apogee Duet interface to record guitar and vocals in a small room at home. Unfortunately...
Parallel compression is something Im just beginning to explore. Its not something Ive used much in the past, but Im seeing its potential for beefing up groups and whole mixes. However, if I set up a compressor on a send channel, rather than processing the whole signal via an insert effect, wont I get phasing? Also, if I set up compressors on several send channels and filter out certain frequencies on each channel (for example, roll off everything but the low-mid range on one, roll off everything but the high-mid range on another), then wouldnt this just be the same thing as multi-band compression?
Someone suggested that I could use a USB pen drive to record audio on my laptop. Is this a good idea? How fast are they, and is it really a cheap way to separate my system and audio drives, or are there any problems inherent in this approach?
SOS reader Gordon Staines of Cheshire emailed us because he was having difficulty using NIs Guitar Rig 3 with his Pro Tools M-Powered setup. Using NIs Rig Kontrol USB interface and controller, with Guitar Rig 3 running in stand-alone mode, he was able to get exactly what he wanted from it, “no latency, and it sounds great live just plugged into the phono inputs on my Marshall AS100D acoustic amp, of all things, or even when I just have the headphones in the controller for practicing. My problem is getting the same sounds out when laying down tracks.”