When you listen to music, do you really get to hear the song in the way that the writers, players and studio people do when it is first created? Probably not. The fact is that all stereo systems change the sound in subtle (and sometimes not so subtle) ways. They may be heavy at theContinue reading “Hearing True EQ: Room Tune Your Monitors”
Tag Archives: Recording tech
August 2021 Grapevine
It’s time for some summer listening. I like to listen to a lot of music while I’m driving, especially new albums I’ve bought (I still love albums on CD). And even in the summer when I’m listening I like to go ‘windows up’ – wind noise takes away from me hearing everything I want to,Continue reading “August 2021 Grapevine”
In The Studio Ep 13 – Recording Electric Bass Guitar
Episode 13 of our In The Studio series discusses how to record electric bass guitar. When you’re listening to the video, there are a few places where we give sonic examples of the different methods. All of this video was recorded directly to the GoPro camera, including the sound. The ‘amp sound’ is a liveContinue reading “In The Studio Ep 13 – Recording Electric Bass Guitar”
Follow The Chain
When we did our last video for In The Studio we discussed the basics of microphones. Part of that discussion was that microphones were one of the entry points for inputting and capturing sound in your system. Today I thought we’d do a post discussing two of the next steps of ‘the chain’ (really twoContinue reading “Follow The Chain”
Messin With The Music Part 9 – Seven Nation Army
We’re back with another ‘messed’ song for your enjoyment. There’s a bit of a story with this one. ‘Seven Nation Army’ was actually recorded before most of the other songs that have been posted. Recording these covers did start with one idea we have maintained with all the songs – recording the tracks straight throughContinue reading “Messin With The Music Part 9 – Seven Nation Army”