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Most Guitar Centers also have a mic display that lets you try each vocal mic in a row through the same amp and speakers. It helps a lot when the singer hears themselves. Some have a great proximity effect (deeper when closer) and some have better rejection off mic. Rod Norman Engineer

I use iZotrope to even out my mixes and get them all sounding uniform. I always save a copy of the original untouched mix. When I then send it off to a mastering studio, I include a commercial CD that I like in the same general style. I include a letter saying I would like to hear what they...

I'm building a new studio right now and using Rock Wool 3" doubled for 6" depth. There will be a cloud right over the mixing station, the wall directly behind the mixing station will be treated with 6" rock wool. Three 6" by 16" x 47" panels on the wall in the back with a soft fireproof...

Great analogy. Do it anyway. Let that be your mark. Don't worry about hurting the 57. Roadies use them for hammers and they still work. Rod Norman Engineer

Welcome to the Home Recording Newsletter. If beats become a problem, there are a bunch of drummers putting out tracks for you to use. Check around. There are also a lot of tutorials on youtube. Check out Into The Lair and Recording Revolution. A lot of people here will be happy to answer your...

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Old post, late catching up. I mentioned having something great to record. I didn't say nothing else mattered. I said that it is the secret. Everyone spends on the mic and everything else but sees the pre as hardly more than a junction box. So getting the best pre you can afford is often...

Yeah, I'm thinking turn down the gain first. We know that from loose guitar cords and guitarists who lick them up and just start to plug them in without looking to get the sound man's attention. If the sound is coming from the speakers (as opposed to a pain in the butt friend who keeps making...

It does sound like a question a guitar tech might ask for a tour. As for studios, the head is what matters. I worked in one studio where they had a slew of guitar heads from Orange to Bogner, Marshall, Kepner and more. There were at least twenty in a wall of shelves and everything was run...

Tube vs solid state; analog vs digital; Mac vs PC. Go to any guitar store. Look around. See all those guitars? Hundreds of them? Think there is just one that is best or right? Everyone's advice here is reasonable but it only matters when the sound is done and if you are happy (an your client is...

We recorded on three tracks, mixed down to one while playing one more track, then added the remaining three. For that reason, we left the lower frequencies for last. We never liked the result when we bounced twice. So, we got seven tracks. If we wanted more, we recorded two guitars together, or...

Great photo! There are plenty of guys here who are running professional studios, and each one might have their set up differently but the similarities are what you want to focus on. Remember that to please clients, your studio has to be sound-proofed from outside sounds and to keep down low...

Great answer. I didn't find that video. All the charts in the world don't beat hearing the real sound. Rod Norman Engineer

This was meant for someone just starting out. No one is ever going to get the results a mastering studio will get. But in a home studio (usually a bedroom) beginners can get what they are really looking for from amstering and that is more "volume" The multiband compressor can do marvelous...

A really good question. I've never heard of an answer specifically. I did a search (which you ve probably already done) but if you haven't here's what I found. (one is an article on the futility of trying to make a home stdio bedroom into a professionally sounding studio.) The last one has...

It sounds like you have a really good handle on this. The sticky mentioned along with scanning youtube for tutorials will add to it. Here's something we tried that worked when I was recording a blind guitarist with his 1941 Gibson acoustic. (you need the sound hole to be clear) He so liked the...

Thanks...It's been a while since I bought mine. Rod

You want the playback deck to be the best heads and you want to clean them and make sure there is no wow or flutter. If you have a friend with a professional cassette deck like the Akai, you might do it at his place onto his recording system.I have a cassette to digital, VHS and DVD to digital...

I'm really happy with my ASUS i7. Rod Norman Engineer

It's clear we all need to stay away from the catalogs. LOL I think the best piece of advice is to focus on what you need to do and whether you can get that out of the equipment you have now. Throwing more money at gear won't really make your system better unless it is filling a need. Of course...