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Key Concepts for Instrument Miking - How to Get the Best Results When Recording Acoustic Instruments
Learning
If you’ve ever recorded an acoustic instrument, you already know that there’s more involved than just sticking a mic in front of it. Factors that influence how the recording will come out — besides t…
05/27/14
Mastering at Home - Part 10 - How to Use Reverb When Mastering
Learning
In this tenth episode, we will tackle an effect that is seldom used by people starting out in mastering, namely, reverb.
05/26/14
Noises Off - How to Use Broadband Noise Reduction Software to Clean Up Music Recordings
Learning
Much as we try to avoid it, there are occasions when noise gets onto our recordings. It could be a live recording where the source was too quiet and background hiss was picked up, or a passage on ele…
05/22/14
Mastering at Home — Part 9 - The Use of Stereo Enhancers While Mastering Music
Learning
Today, our journey across the mastering world takes us into the slippery terrain of stereo enhancers.
05/19/14
Producing a Vocal Session - Part 1 - How to Get the Best Results When Recording a Singer in Your Studio
Learning
Producing a singer for a vocal overdub session sounds like a pretty straightforward task, but to get good results, you not only need good engineering chops, but the ability to coax the best performan…
05/17/14
The Top Digital Reverb Pedals - A Look at the Best Digital Reverb Guitar Pedals
Learning
Indispensable on the pedalboard of any guitarist — right next to the overdrive/distortion — the reverb pedal allows you to add some ambient or to modify the position of a sound in a mix. Naturally, i…
05/15/14
The Top Guitar Pickup Brands - A Look at the Best Electric Guitar Pickup Makers
Learning
Electromagnetic transducers play a crucial role in the sound of a guitar player and many of us like to change the original pickups on our guitars. Here are the results of a survey we ran some time ag…
05/14/14
Mastering at Home — Part 8 - A Guide to Using Harmonic Exciters and Enhancers in Mastering
Learning
This eighth episode of our home mastering series will deal with harmonic exciters, harmonic enhancers and company.
05/10/14
How to Get Ready for Your First Gig - Part 1 - Getting ready for your first gig as a guitar player
Learning
The time has come, your band is ready for the big jump: Your first live gig as a guitar player is imminent. However, your stress is rising at a rate that would shock any cardiologist. Stay cool — her…
05/08/14
How much power does your amp need for rehearsals and gi… - Choosing the Right Wattage for Your Guitar Amp
Learning
Thanks to "Doc" Emmett Brown, everybody knows that you need 1.21 gigawatts for a DeLorean to go back to the future when its flux capacitor runs out of plutonium.
05/05/14
Mastering at Home - Part 7 - A Guide to Multi-Band Compression in Mastering
Learning
In the previous article, we addressed compression within the context of home mastering with a classic compressor. It's time now to tackle multi-band compression.
05/04/14
Which Type of Tuning Machines Are Best for You? - How to Choose Tuners for Electric Guitar
Learning
Broken, worn-out or simply ugly-looking tuners are often the cause of complaints by guitarists. If changing them is unavoidable, here is some info that will help you understand the subject better.
04/30/14
Working with Drum Loops - Part 1 - How to Make Loop-Based Drum Tracks Sound As Realistic As Possible
Learning
I’m not a drummer, but I often produce tracks in my studio that include drum parts. Sometimes I’m fortunate enough to be able to use a real drummer, but in most cases it’s just not practical. Instead…
04/29/14
Cut the Mud from Your Mix - Remove Low-End Clutter from Your Mix with High-Pass Filtering
Learning
Guitars, vocals, pianos, drums or virtually any track in your mix, has extraneous low-frequency information that can be filtered out without compromising the sound. While you may not notice anything …
04/28/14
Mastering at Home — Part 6 - How to Use Compression While Mastering
Learning
Today we will focus on compression, another important aspect of the mastering process that's often misunderstood.
04/26/14
Buying an Audio Interface - Part 2 - Help Picking the Best Audio Interface
Learning
Part 1 looked at how to interpret the specs you see in ads and listings for audio interfaces. This time around, we offer info to help you figure out the audio interface that best fits your needs, pre…
04/24/14
Buying an Audio Interface - Part 1 - Demystifying the Specs and Features of an Audio Interface
Learning
Shopping for an audio interface can be daunting, due to the countless models on the market and the variations in inputs, outputs, formats, maximum sampling rates, and numerous other specifications. T…
04/22/14
Mastering at Home - Part 5 - How to Use EQ when Mastering — In Practice
Learning
The latest installment of our Mastering at Home series deals with some common situations when using an equalizer.
04/20/14
Tips for Better Soloing - Make Your Solos More Interesting and Musical
Learning
Whether you play guitar, keyboard, saxophone or any other lead instrument, there’s more to being a good soloist than just having chops and knowing riffs. Playing fast is great, but speed by itself do…
04/17/14
A Review of Toontrack's Classic Amps EZmix Pack - Classic Amps the EZ Way
Learning
Toontrack recently released a new collection of amp models with effects called the Classic Amps EZmix Pack, which can be opened as presets in the company's EZmix 2 software. How do these emulations s…
04/15/14
Why Headroom is Important - Keep Your Levels Down and Your Headroom Up, and Your Music Will Sound Better
Learning
You’ve probably heard the term “headroom” thrown around a lot. What it is, essentially, is a margin of safety between the loudest peaks of your track — or tracks, in the case of a mix — and 0 dB on y…
04/14/14
Mastering at Home - Part 4 - How to Use EQ In Mastering — The Theory
Learning
In mastering, EQing could be your best friend or your worst enemy. Which of the two depends on your grasp of the word: subtlety!
04/11/14
Mixing: A 12-Step Program - A Helpful Approach for Efficiently Mixing Music
Learning
Here at Audiofanzine, we’ve covered many individual aspects of mixing, and offered detailed information on what to do in preparation for a mix. But we've also gotten requests for an overview of the e…
04/09/14
Learn From Other Mixes - How to Analyze a Mix
Learning
Just like painting, photography and, obviously, music — mixing is an art in itself. And, as such, it also requires some training.
04/07/14
Long-Distance Collaboration - Work Together Remotely via DAW File Sharing
Learning
Sharing tracks over the Internet makes it possible for musicians to work together remotely, whether they're around the corner from each other or around the world.
04/02/14