
Recording drums — Rough mix possibilities - The ultimate guide to audio recording - Part 45
LearningIn today's episode, we are going to make an assessment of the drum tracks we have exploring different rough mix possibilities. You will see that alone by playing with the volume faders of the tracks …

Recording drums — The importance of the musician - The ultimate guide to audio recording - Part 44
LearningToday I invite you to discuss a somewhat particular topic in this chapter dedicated to recording drums.

Recording drums — Layering in practice - The ultimate guide to audio recording - Part 43
LearningHaving seen the theory, the time has come to put the layering technique into practice and see what we can get with what we've recorded so far.

Recording drums — Tools for layering - The ultimate guide to audio recording - Part 42
LearningNow that you know what is layering good for, today I'll show you how to put it into practice.

Recording drums — Layering - The ultimate guide to audio recording - Part 41
LearningThis week we'll take yet another brief detour from recording in itself to discuss layering. While this production technique is usually reserved to the mixing stage, I nevertheless decided to talk abo…

Recording drums — Stereo Room (Part 4) - The ultimate guide to audio recording - Part 40
LearningToday's article will be the last one dedicated to the Stereo Room recordings. This time we'll discuss more convoluted techniques.

Recording drums — Stereo Room (Part 3) - The ultimate guide to audio recording - Part 39
LearningIn this episode we will look into a new method to record the Stereo Room tracks, as well as one of its numerous variants, which, in my opinion, is particularly interesting.

LiquidSonics Seventh Heaven Professional Review - The reverb from heaven?
Written testBest Product awardThe second version of Reverberate, LiquidSonics' flagship product, completely blew us away with its Fusion-IR technology because it actually provided an unheard-of flexibility and audio quality in th…

Recording drums — Stereo Room (Part 2) - The ultimate guide to audio recording - Part 38
LearningSecond installment on the Stereo Room tracks within the chapter dedicated to recording drums. After having looked into the whys, today we'll discuss the hows of recording the Stereo Room mics.

Recording drums — Stereo Room (Part 1) - The ultimate guide to audio recording - Part 37
LearningThis time we'll discuss the commonly called Stereo Room mics. This topic will take us quite some time because, personally, I think it's crucial.

Recording drums — The toms - The ultimate guide to audio recording - Part 36
LearningToday we'll continue exploring the close-miking of additional drum kit elements that aren't necessarily indispensable, like the toms.

Over 50 plug-ins to make you mixing life easier - The best audio plug-ins for mixing
TopFrom the first editing click to the last automation, mixing is a passionate and arduous job. That's why we decided to write this article to discuss some tools that can make your life much easier and/…

Recording drums — Hi-hat cymbals - The ultimate guide to audio recording - Part 35
LearningToday, we will continue the chapter dedicated to drums recording considering other close miked elements that aren't necessarily indispensable... It depends on the situation, as you will see. We'll be…

Recording drums — Panning - The ultimate guide to audio recording - Part 34
LearningLast installment of our brief detour from the recording drums articles. Should you think about the drums from the listener's or the drummer's perspective? Keep on reading to find the answer...

Recording drums - A matter of perspective - The ultimate guide to audio recording - Part 33
LearningToday I'd like to discuss with you something that goes beyond drums recording strictly speaking. Actually, what we'll see has probably more to do with the mixdown stage, but I think it's nevertheless…

Recording drums — First rough mix - The ultimate guide to audio recording - Part 32
LearningThis time I invite you to review the current state of your drums recordings. And I'll begin with a consideration that goes beyond the instrument at hand...

Recording the snare and kick at the same time - The ultimate guide to audio recording - Part 31
LearningIn this new installment dedicated to drums recording I will reveal a technique that will allow you to spare one mic and one track when close miking the kick and snare.

Recording drums — Kick drum mics - The ultimate guide to audio recording - Part 30
LearningLast installment dedicated to the kick drum from the chapter on recording drums. Up to now we have been focusing exclusively on our own audio clips, but I'm well aware that not everybody has access t…

The Top 10 of Musikmesse 2017 - Best of Musikmesse 2017
Report / ShowThe Musikmesse 2017 in Frankfurt ended last week and it was a good occasion for the Audiofanzine team to try out new gear.

Recording drums — Aligning the kick drum tracks - The ultimate guide to audio recording - Part 29
LearningSecond kick drum installment from the chapter dedicated to recording drums.

Recording drums — The kick drum (Part 1) - The ultimate guide to audio recording - Part 28
LearningAfter having looked at the snare drum, we will focus today on how to close mic a kick drum.

Recording drums — The snare drum (Part 2) - The ultimate guide to audio recording - Part 27
LearningIn the previous episode we saw the ABC of close miking a snare drum. Today we'll take it a step further...

Last advice on automation - Part 2 - A guide to mixing music - Part 120
LearningToday I'll give you some final recommendations regarding automation.

Recording drums — Overheads and the A-B technique - The ultimate guide to audio recording - Part 24
LearningAfter having seen the ORTF, XY and M/S techniques, we'll look now into two other methods to record drum overheads.

Recording drums — Overheads: the XY and M/S techniques - The ultimate guide to audio recording - Part 23
LearningAs I told you last week, there are several techniques to record the incredibly important drum overheads stereo track. We already saw the ORTF method and today we'll dive into the XY and M/S technique…










