Recording Your DJ Sessions - Part 2
LearningIn the first part of this article, we discussed how to prepare the decks, records and mixer to have an optimal audio signal...
Recording Your DJ Sessions - Part 1
LearningRecording yourself whenever you mix is an excellent habit that will allow you to learn and grow your DJ skills. Listening to your mixes later with a clear head allows you to put things into perspecti…
Be More Productive In the Studio With an Efficient System For Saving Your Recording Data
LearningAs a home-recording musician, you have to wear many hats. You’re the talent, the engineer, the producer, the mix engineer, and often even the mastering engineer (not to mention the studio manager and…
How To Get A Big Drum Sound- Part 1
LearningAfter guitar and bass, the time has come to focus on how to get a big drum sound. A subject matter is so vast that we will need three articles, at least, to cover the basics.
How To Get A Metal Guitar Sound
LearningDue to its violent nature, heavy metal needs a particularly polished guitar sound or it might become unintelligible. Here are several tips to achieve a heavy and accurate sound at the same time.
Editing Techniques That Help Remove Imperfections From Sung or Spoken-Voice Recordings
LearningYou may have already utilized the editing features in your DAW to make vocal comps and move individual words or lines around in time, but you can also use them to get rid of, or minimize, the sonic g…
You Can Get Great Sounds When You Go Direct
LearningIf you polled a group of engineers and producers, asking them what’s the best way to record electric guitar, probably 99% of them would say by miking an amp — preferably a tube amp that’s turned up r…
Audio Editors: Readers' Choice
LearningBe it to master a song, do some sound design, manipulate audio files or edit samples, the audio editor is a very precious tool in your creative arsenal. We chose nine paid audio editors from which yo…
PureMix Video On Mixing Drums
LearningIn this new PureMix video, sound engineer Ben Lindell shows you how to use your audio processing plug-ins to mix drums giving them more substance and presence.
How To Get The Perfect Take
LearningComping is an audio editing technique that consists in putting together different takes of the same instrument in order to get the "perfect recording" without the trick being audible.
The Best Audio Tools To Simplify Your Life
LearningHere's a list of plug-ins, software and hardware tools that will simplify the life of the home studio owner.
Transpose A Guitar According To The Vocal Range
LearningA guitarist must frequently adapt to the voice of the singer and specially to his or her own vocal range. How should this be done?
Understanding the Different Level Standards
LearningdB VU, dB FS, Peak, RMS… The misunderstanding of these concepts is at the core of many of the issues affecting most home studio owners. It's about time we shed some light on the matter
The Home Studio Owner Library
LearningYou don't know which book to take with you to for the morning commute? Here are some inspiring reads regarding audio...
How to Make a Sound Seem Close or Distant
LearningThe brain is a really amazing tool! In fact, even with our eyes closed we are able to locate the things that surround us as soon as they emit a sound. Fortunately for us, as powerful as it is, the so…
What do audio measurements mean?
LearningAt AudioFanzine we invested in equipment that allows us to measure audio performance of products we review. However, it is not always easy to understand the flood of numerical values that can reveal …
Organizing Before Mixing
LearningThe art of mixing requires technical competency as well as a good dose of creativity. However, often times such characteristics don't get along well inside our brain...
Switching Caps
LearningVersatility can be seen from different angles and perspectives but there's a strong advantage to it : it gives a solid richness to the experience of life. In that meaning we could say Israeli born UK…
How to Set a Reverb Processor
LearningUnless you're leaving in a tent in the middle of the desert, you are exposed to numerous natural reverberations every day. Our ears perceive reverberations that our brain interprets automatically to …
How Does a Sidechain Work?
LearningBack in the analog area, audio effects with a sidechain circuit were rare and usually among the most expensive. So sidechain was used only in big productions to fine tune the processing of certain re…
Automation Basics
LearningMany of the features in our DAWs come from the analog world, and automation is no exception. In order to understand what it is all about, let's go back to the time when the only digital gear in a rec…
Everything About the ABX Test
LearningWhen you want to compare two audio samples, it's often hard to tell if you are actually hearing a difference or if your ears and your brain are cheating you. In fact, hearing is a somewhat unreliable…
What is the difference between insert and aux effects?
LearningTo avoid connection errors, it's important to distinguish between insert and aux effects. Their operation is different, so their integration in the audio path is different too. That's why it's import…
Difference and Relations between MIDI and Audio
LearningIt's not easy for beginners to understand the differences between audio and MIDI since both seem to be useful to make music. But understanding this crucial difference is precisely what distinguishes …
How does a drummer get ready for a recording session?
LearningThe best sound engineers on earth can testify that it is quite a challenge to get the Bonham or Chad Smith sound! However, that is no reason to be depressed. Even without a big production, there are …
