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That's fair - and words to live by. I hired him because he was recommended by a family friend who is a retired concert pianist, so I made the assumption that someone who plays piano "seriously" might have a better clue than me. I admit to having no clue at all. I can mic a piano :D He did...

The volume of the staccato part is fine actually, but I hear a little slope in the attack of each note and I was thinking making that sharper might draw more attention to it without going louder or changing the balance of the passage. This is not something you would change in your mix, but...

What you might want is a matrix switch - they have multiple inputs and multiple outputs, and by pushing buttons you can select what goes where. Some of the more expensive units can also save 'patches' so you can flip between two patches and all the settings change accordingly, as you saved...

You want "air" behind you because of the monitors, so you'd want the desk placed along the short wall so you can use the length of the room to your advantage. If the vocal booth isn't framed out, you might consider not making it square or rectangular, as that will enable parallel reflections...

7' x 3'? That's tight. Foam is useful for dampening higher frequencies and does very little for low frequencies. Rockwall is better, as it dampens more broadly, but you need some thickness for it to be effective. Are you putting the rockwool in the wall between the studs, or making baffles...

Not my cup of tea genre-wise, but you made a nice, high quality recording. Good use of the audio spectrum, good panning with balance, though it sounds a bit more compressed than I would have expected - is that typical of your genre, or am I just tired (likely)? Also, the staccato guitar...

That's probably because he knew the answer, and everyone else wasn't sure enough and didn't want to steer you in a poor direction :)

Whoever suggested bass frequencies confuse the brain in headphones is spot on - this is because of how the brain deciphers stereo imaging to determine location forward and back, and how it processes that information. Here's a fun experiment to try: Sit blindfolded in the middle of the room...

This particular upright will hold it's tune very well for a couple of months actually, *IF* the temperature and humidity are constant. I don't really use it for recording and haven't in, well, 20 years :) but it's a family heirloom and a good piano, so we decided last year to start maintaining...

There are some wickedly talented piano tuners out there - the guy I use is long retired and I have to beg him to tune my upright. He used to teach piano tuning as a career, tuning "pro" pianos on the side as a "hobby" to maintain his craft - mostly NYC theaters, Carnegie, places like that. I...

I like eggs but not that much lol. If you really want to do the egg thing make friends with your local bakery, diner, or generic breakfast joint and they'll give you all the egg crates you want - fairly large ones too.

heh, glad you liked my humor - not everyone does. There are a lot of ways to mic an acoustic instrument aside from the obvious - pointing a mic at the sound hole of the instrument. Others have suggested multiple mics - great suggestion. Some suggested a stereo mic - also a great suggestion...

As a person who spent six days and about 40 boxes of staples hanging egg cartons in a live room, I can tell you *for certain* it's a waste of your time. And, removing the egg cartons and picking out the staples with a flathead screwdriver upon being disappointed is even more of a waste of time...

Diffusers? No. Egg cartons have four purposes: 1. To hold eggs in transport. 2. To hold eggs while painting them for Easter. 3. To start seedlings. 4. To temporarily hold nuts and bolts while you dismantle an engine, transmission, or some other complicated piece of machinery you don't want to...

I too am a huge fan of "Cowbell Mastering" even though I didn't select from the vast library of cowbell sounds. Instead, I opted for something more expensive, and original :D http://frederic.woodbridgedata.com/audio/areyoukidding.mp3

In its simplest definition, mastering is a post-production process whereby a song (or multiple songs) is (are) prepared and transferred to a data storage device - the master - which is in turn used for duplication and distribution. On a high level, that's all a mastering engineer does...

You can put me in the "I hate peizo's" group. Partly what makes an acoustic instrument sound good is the materials and construction methods used to create that instrument - and if you're only capturing string vibrations you're losing a lot of acoustical "data" that might be useful in the mix...

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Assuming I'm understanding the question... Back in the "old days" most of us simply used Y cords on the busses so that buss 1-8 went to Adat A 1-8 in, as well as ADAT B 1-8 in. Then, you didn't even have to move tapes. I have a friend who used to have a pair of Otari 24 ch 2" decks, and a...

Very true. If you are in a professional setting with different people in each role (recording/mixing engineer, mastering engineer, producer, band members, et al) it is the producer's job to encourage the band to go outside and wank off on dirty magazines while you as the mixing engineer, mix...