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With my home studio at my parents' house, and the fact I moved out two years ago, I have to make the 20 minute drive if I want to record stuff. Which is fine, but sometimes I just want to lay down some basic demo stuff and the drive ain't really worth it for that. So I'm setting up a home away...

Not sure this is the right forum, but seemed the biggest fit. I am in the middle of working on a production that isn't the traditional 'band' production, where the agreement is we just divide the earnings equally among us. This is a production where all the musicians are paid up front. Now I...

I may have a chance in the near future to mic up an organ/leslie combo, and I am really excited. I have read a lot of miking techniques online, but just want to see what you guys think based on my mic locker. 1x AT 4047 1x Fathead II 2x RODE NT2a 2x SM57 1x Audix i5 1x e609 1x Beta 52 1x D112...

Hey guys. Basically as part of my band's kickstarter we recorded a live album yesterday for digital distribution for some of our backers. I'm probably gonna do MP3 since that's still the most prolific format. I'm curious as to what bit rate to use. 128 seems to have remained a consistent...

Alright, so I want to build a bass drum tunnel. But not for the normal reasons. I'm not trying to extend the bass. What I want to use is a condenser mic on the bass drum (an AT4047, for those wondering). I've recorded it before, it sounds really killer. But there is one problem. It...

So as I've mentioned in other threads the past week or so, I finished one of my band's albums. I advocated a digital only release, maybe a short run duplication to sell at shows, but the bandleader got inspired to do a full replication run and wanted to launch a kickstarter for it. So I'm just...

Hey guys, so we're just about done mixing an album, and obviously because there's no money involved, I am going to do "self-mastering". Obviously very basic stuff, minor two-buss processing, set things up in CD Architect, and done. What I plan to do for workflow is to set up all the stereo...

So we all want nice vintage microphones, and preamps, and hardware compressors and EQs and console boards. The price of these devices are freakishly expensive. But no one talks about vintage studio monitors and/or amplifiers. Why is this? My experience is that vintage hi-fi speakers and amps...

Hey guys. So I've been recording a lot of guitar recently for my upcoming album. Guitarist is really great, has really great tone, but I'm looking to add a little bit more edge to what is already laid down (there's only so much a Fender Twin and Tubescreamer can do!). I've been trying out...

So over the next couple of weeks I'm bringing in a guitarist to lay down some guitar tracks for my album. I typically record with an e609 about 2-3" away off center, and a Fathead II ribbon about 4-5 feet back. I want to try something different this time. The issue is that I don't play...

I know the answer to this is "use your ears." But thought I'd get a discussion going just to see people's personal preferences. I'm in the middle of recording an album. I like recording minimalistic guitars.....guitar and amp. About the only pedals I like are things like wah or a boost pedal...

Not sure if this is the appropriate forum to post to my crowdfunding site. In Odin's Name - A Rock Musical - Campaign 1 | Indiegogo Basically, a rock musical. With Vikings.

So, I've been feeling the onset of GAS recently. Its been awhile since I bought anything for my studio. Over a year since I bought my last thing (UAD Trident plug) and almost two years since I bought my last piece of hardware (AT 4047 and a Naiant mic), it has never been this long of time. So...

Hey guys, one of my bands is starting to record an album, and.....I'm doing it. Heh. We got about 5 songs done now, I'm posting one on here to get to gist of how it sounds. Just straight mix down, nothing on 2 buss, and then normalized to -0.4. (I'm on drums and bass) SoundClick artist...

I got my musician's friend catalog in the mail, was checking it out, had a little mini feature on microphones for different applications. Under their short list of good drum mics, their top choice was...an AKG D12 reissue mic. Now I've always heard about how awesome the D12 mic was, and that...

Hey guys, been awhile since I hung around this side of the interwebs. About a month or two ago I recorded a song in my home studio for my friend's band that I drum in part time. I was going to post it here before it was released but never got around to it....so may as well show it now...

Last night I took my stereo zoom recorder and recorded a friend's gig. Have never really done stereo 'mixing' before. I know I'm gonna gently knudge a bit of EQ here and there, but what ideas about compression? More than likely what I was picking up on the mains was already compressed to some...

Just recorded a female soprano over a rock-esque song, and I'm having the damnest time trying to mix her in. I can never get the vocals to sit right. She wants to redo the vocals at some point in the future so this may be a worthless activity, but I want to at least get this right so it makes...

Hey, I seem to not be as active here as I used to....regardless, I have recently purchased a Zoom h4n because I really wanted a mobile recorder, and it had pretty damn nice features plus sound quality. However, what really sold me on it was the ability to use it as an audio interface. Since I...

So myself and a lyricist has been chiseling away at a rock musical for the past half year based on some Viking mythology, but a bit more modernized and contemporary. I just finished writing the music for the last song (21 songs!) and for the past month or so I've been working on a 4-song demo...