Recent content by Duncan Hutchins

I am a retired sound engineer with UK City & Guilds qualifications. I work part time for live bands providing sound engineering, audio and video recording and DMX-controlled lighting. I frequently need to use headphones at the mixing desk, not only to monitor the main stereo mix going to the PA...

Please don't do this! You'd create an extreme room-size explosion hazard within 15 minutes, far more dangerous even than the alcohol in liquid form, because you've mixed it with the oxygen in the air. Basically the same as the inside of a cylinder in a petrol engine, just before the spark plug...

a semitone only in my admittedly limited experience. Just maybe a whole tone.

whatever you do DON'T bake the tape until you have tried playing it normally and exhausted all the possibilities, preferably trying at least 2 machines known to have no serious transport issues such as 'iffy' rubber belts or deteriorated pinch roller. As I understand it, baked tape will give you...

many people, especially in amateur rock bands, think that changing a key of, say, a song that you're covering, is just a matter of doing exactly that, and all will be well. That's untrue, and it's one of the main reasons why the great classical composers such as Beethoven often felt the need to...