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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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...
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Is Less Gain the Guitar Version Of “Adulting”?
Over the years I’ve realized that I have substantially backed off the gain on my tone yet...
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4th Edition Of Recording Engineer’s Handbook Now Available
BOMG Publishing has announced the release of the fully updated fourth edition of Bobby...
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Stage Plots: What They Are, Why You Need One, How To Make One
What goes where? That is the question and the stage plot is the answer. This simple picture is...
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You can sound Good or you can sound Unique
Over the past 6 months, I have really gotten into listening to podcasts on my commute. It’s...
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Top 8 Ways to Record Your Gig
While editing Riley Wilson’s latest Solo Gigger blog on recording gig–less as a way to...
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NY Tax Credit = More Music, More Jobs
In New York State, the Excelsior Jobs Program was created to provide tax credits for strategic...
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Gigging Right: Playing With Tracks
By Jerry Cobb So your drummer quit, your bass player has taken up yoga and won’t learn the...
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For Game Sound Composers
GameSoundCon finalized the 2015 schedule for the leading conference on video game music and sound...
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Tips for Recording Acoustic Guitar
Recording the acoustic guitar can be a bit difficult until you know a few tried and true...
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My Electronic Classroom
Some years ago when I was asked that infamous question during an interview, “Where do you see...
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- Preventing Wireless Mic Dropoutsby Bruce Bartlett Chffffft! That’s the sound of a wireless mic dropout. The microphone makes a burst of noise or cuts out. That happens because the mic’s radio signal was lost, either by a weak transmitted signal, a weak received signal, or interference with other radio waves. Fortunately, there are many things you can do […]
- Westone ES5 IEMsIt was not that long ago–less than a year–that I swore off personally reviewing in-ear personal monitors. I have done so many reviews that I have multiple units from most of the major players. I have not heard/used the stuff made by JH Audio or Fidelity but have or have used multiple models by Future […]
- Preventing Clipping In Recording And Mixdownby Bruce Bartlett (1) When I record myself or our band, I’m clipping the waveform even though I’m not exceeding 0 dB at the top of the level meter. What’s going on? Reply: Make sure to set your record meters and playback meters to read peak levels, not RMS levels. The peak levels show how […]
- Insert Effects Vs. Send EffectsBy Bruce Bartlett Many people confuse INSERT effects with SEND effects. What are they, and where do you place them in a DAW during a mixdown project? An INSERT effect is inserted into a track, in series with the track’s signal, to process that signal. Examples of insert effects are EQ, compression, gating, and de-essing. A […]