Try a new and unfamiliar genre If, like most producers, you spend the majority if not all your time working in a single musical genre – rock, house, hip-hop, [...]
Recording
The original vocal correction plugin, Antares’ famous/infamous Auto-Tune was a bona fide music technology game changer when it arrived in 1997, making it possible to knock even the most wayward [...]
Initiating the process, the iD24 is configured as outlined below: The Optical Out establishes a direct connection to the Hardware Sampler using a TOSlink cable. In this instance, the [...]
Why would my audio need restoring? For the producer working entirely ‘in the box’, making music with software synths and plugin effects, and no real-world recording involved, unwanted noise [...]
An essential audio engineering concept that every producer needs to understand, appreciate and stay on top of in every project, headroom in a digital audio system is simply the difference [...]
1. Choose the right microphone Inevitably, the microphone you elect to point at the speaker cabinet from which your amplified guitar is emanating has a major impact on the quality [...]
Get good at music theory… While there are undoubtedly topline writers out there forging careers with little or no formal musical education to speak of, it stands to reason [...]
Enlarge your vocal with double tracking A well established trick for achieving larger-than-life vocals, double tracking is, as the name suggests, the recording of two identical performances, which are [...]
Use your DAW’s built-in comping system If you’re still comping your vocals by recording to multiple discreet tracks, then cutting and pasting between them to build the comp on [...]
