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 – 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 …

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 …

Drum Room Project :: Hang some foam

Various foam pictures.  I packed this stuff everywhere.  2 Full walls of these, and another fair chunk on the ceiling after hanging curtains and some other rugs and blankets.     Back to the Drum Room Project Table of Contents.  

Drum Room Project :: Cleaning the floor a bit

A quick post this time. Just a small post on the floor, so you can see how it started.  There are some new rugs now, by the time this post comes out, so I will add those as I get them up.  I have been busy working on other parts of the family basement.  Non-music Read More …