BETTER SOUND FOR YOUR BAND’S VIDEOS
How to connect an external mic or mixer to a smartphoneby Bruce Bartlett When you use a smartphone...
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Category: Bruce Bartlett
A MIC TECHNIQUE THAT CAPTURES WHAT THE MUSICIAN HEARS
An electric guitarist is sitting in a studio, ready to start a session. They have tweaked their...
Read More10 Questions to Ask Yourself While Mixing
When you mix a song, you might find it helpful to ask some questions about what you’re hearing. The questions can keep you focused, and they make sure that you’re not overlooking anything. Here are a few things to ask yourself...
Read MoreGAIN STAGING FOR RECORDING AND LIVE
Clean sound. That’s one of the marks of a professional recording, or professional sound reinforcement. “Clean” means free of noise and distortion. Getting that sound is a result of correct gain staging. Gain staging (or gain...
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Recording the Electric Guitar
You can record the electric guitar in many ways: With a mic in front of the guitar amp With a...
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Video Review: Yamaha DSR-112
It’s a little known secret that our own RevBill (Evans) was once chased about and accosted by a...
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Recording a Piano
by Bruce Bartlett Recording a Grand Piano This magnificent instrument is a challenge to record...
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The Recording Coach: EQ & Vocal Effects
by Bruce Bartlett EQ QUESTION Hey Bruce, how have you been? I have a quick question: When...
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Causes and Cures of Electric Guitar Hum
You’re recording an electric guitar, and you hear a buzz or hum. Here are some causes and...
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Phantom Power Explained
by Bruce Bartlett Most condenser microphones need phantom power to operate their internal...
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Preventing Clipping In Recording And Mixdown
by Bruce Bartlett (1) When I record myself or our band, I’m clipping the waveform even...
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Preventing Wireless Mic Dropouts
by Bruce Bartlett Chffffft! That’s the sound of a wireless mic dropout. The microphone makes a...
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- Emulating musical modelsOnline tutorials these days have a simple format. Just follow and of course you will need to slow it down, freeze frame it and work it up bit by bit in emulation of the model. This is what students do in coming to GCSE study in one Cambridgeshire secondary school and no doubt more widely. […]
- Review: PreSonus Air SeriesThe PreSonus AIR loudspeaker series offers great sound and enhanced portability at an acceptable price. Over the summer, I’ve been putting a pair of 15″ two-way tops with 15″ subs through some rather excruciating trials. The most recent event was a concert by the Australian duo Severed Heads. You can read the review at FOHonline. […]
- Bruce Springsteen Talks Politics, Marriage and Why He Won’t Write an ‘Anti-Trump Diatribe’Check out the second part of Variety’s interview with The Boss. The post Bruce Springsteen Talks Politics, Marriage and Why He Won’t Write an ‘Anti-Trump Diatribe’ appeared first on Level11Media.
- Snapshot Review: Audio-Technica’s ATM350aCardioid Condenser Instrument Microphone with UniMount components We all know that to get the best, most accurate, sound from any instrument, with the least possibility of feedback, we need the mic to be as close to the source of the sound as possible. This can be a challenge, especially when working with an ever changing […]
- “The Guys That Are In Control Are Not Honoring the Arts” (LA Times)While walking from his sculpture and painting studios to his recording studio on a typically Pacific-breezy afternoon, trumpeter, A&M Records co-founder and philanthropist Herb Alpert paused to describe his first brush with a horn. It was at a music appreciation class when he was a kid, Alpert, 82, said during a tour of his oceanfront Malibu […]