Recent content by dkerwood

We're all talking about different things. If your sole goal is to keep sound from getting out (ie, you're drumming and you don't want the neighbors calling the cops), then you just need material. Some material works better than others, but all material will do SOMETHING to dampen the sound...

The plan eventually is to redo the garage and purpose-build a studio out there. The only issue with that is that I'd have to intentionally go out there to practice, rehearse, or record. Right now I walk past my studio 15 times a day and I'm likely to sit and play music any of those times!

I'm planning to set up a drum recording room in my basement (due to no room in my regular studio room). The basement stairs are around the corner from my studio desk, and the total run will probably be something like 30 or 40 feet once we get around the corner, down the stairs, and to the spot...

I didn't notice it until I was pretty deep in the process (lead guitar was the last thing I recorded, not counting rerecording the acoustic guitar, which I recorded first then redid at the end as I often do). By then, it was too late to adjust tempo without starting from scratch.

Phase reversal of the overhead. That fixed it, I think. I need to upload a new version.

I had been playing with LCR mixing, but the trouble I ran into here was that the Telecaster had that defining riff through the whole tune. I couldn't get it to feel right panned full L with the acoustic panned full R. As far as the kick goes, I think I'm going to have to get creative... I'm...

The only gripe I can hear, listening on my laptop speakers, is that the acoustic and the hi hat aren't perfectly in sync during the intro, and since they live in the same frequency range, they're conflicting a little bit. Otherwise, really nice.

I did a lot of recording a couple of years ago, then we moved and my gear sat in storage for a long time. Finally have a band going again and we're getting ready to record a couple of tracks over Christmas break. Then Mother Nature dumped a ton of ice and snow on us, so I had 4 days of...

Yeah, I'm pretty pleased with how it turned out. All recorded in one afternoon, so I didn't sweat the really small stuff. If I did it over again, I'd probably bump the tempo up another 10 bpm. It still grooves at 140, but the "Johnny B Goode" intro feels a little cumbersome. The only real...

Sorry, I don't know how to embed the Soundcloud player... EDIT: Got it figured out...

Holy cow. This is the result I've been working toward for years and have yet to be able to achieve. On my phone (which is where most of my own mixes fall apart), it sounds like any professional mix I've ever heard.

Getting ready to start working on my EP over Christmas break, but wanted to get back into the practice of recording and mixing, so I decided to throw together a few Christmas tracks on a snowy weekend. Here's the first tune, "Run Run Rudolph." Let me know what you think. Thanks...

I'm trying hard to convince my church to upgrade from their A&H Zed 428 to a Behringer X32 board. In addition to all the cool stuff it can do live, it will be able to record 32 channels in and 32 channels out, so I can record and mix an entire band straight from the board.

Well, the nice thing about Pro Tools (and I suspect it's true of other DAWs) is that you can adjust those tempo changes. You can easily program a 90 bpm verse and a 95 bpm chorus- no problem. For a lot of musicians I've worked with, however (including myself), those tempo changes are not on...

Let's just say I was really pleased with the drum tone I got on my last recording, and using the same mics before I was not as pleased. I wanted to keep the quality up. I was concerned about that, but the sanctuary is actually not bad to record in. It's a pretty modern room with some OK...