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 …

Studio Notes – ADR – Automatic Double Track

Abbey Road Studios designed automatic double tracking and here’s a way to simulate that effect First insert a delay across the vocal that doesn’t matter what the delay is in terms of short medium or long we’re going to set it to somewhere around 75 milliseconds it start it doesn’t really matter and if it Read More …

Getting Started :: Other Computer Things to think about

Some other Computer Things to think about. Surge Protectors I have been super please with this one as of late. I do not get any $ for recommending things.  Hopefully this site stays that way. Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) External Drive or Cloud Storage For this, it is important to have something where whatever you upload Read More …

Studio Shopping List

For Now, here is a wish list. https://www.amazon.com/Rode-NT1000-Cardioid-Condenser-Microphone/dp/B0002PSCQC https://www.amazon.com/Microphone-tenlamp-Adjustable-Recording-shield-106/dp/B091GFGKGH https://www.amazon.com/AKG-Pro-Audio-C214-Large-Diaphragm/dp/B003SO5OZQ https://www.amazon.com/Focal-Alpha-Powered-Studio-Monitor/dp/B00LI6S7FA https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CKX9Z92 https://www.amazon.com/KRK-Professional-Bi-Amp-Powered-Monitor/dp/B07NDBM6F2 https://www.amazon.com/Neumann-TLM-102-Condenser-Microphone/dp/B003HGLPC6 https://www.amazon.com/Blue-Microphones-Large-Diaphragm-Condenser-Microphone/dp/B01MZBLKN5 https://www.amazon.com/Shure-SM7B-Cardioid-Dynamic-Microphone/dp/B0002E4Z8M

Drum Room Project :: Clean the Ceiling

Continuing with the home studio project.  The basement started with a bunch of junk all over the ceiling in the basement.  More lights than I would think necessary, and the majority of those are he unpleasant florescent lights.  The cobwebs and dust did not come through in the photos, but I spent a fair amount Read More …