Best way to learn recording

[Aberdonian]

Thanks for your great suggestions--some of your insults not withstanding.

I have been able to record with multiple overdubs and burn to disc. Now to get better at EQing, adding effects, etc. I seem to get lost in the details.

Alan

 

[fraserhutch]

Man, if you have such thin skin that you think you've been insulted here, you might want to reconsider frequenting this BBS.

You have not yet even begun to be insulted.

No one has yet taken you to task for asking this question in the wrong forum when it obviously belongs in the newbie forum. You usual get torn a new one for that.

I guess the saving grace is that you have yet to ask what the best mic for rap is for $150 or less

And you have barely begun to scratch the surface of the details..........

Thanks for your great suggestions--some of your insults not withstanding.

I have been able to record with multiple overdubs and burn to disc. Now to get better at EQing, adding effects, etc. I seem to get lost in the details.

Alan

 

[slidey]

I seem to get lost in the details.

& there are many many many many many many...........................details

& the insults...................take them on the chin like a true Scot would

crivvens cheil & help ma boab

 

[slidey]

ya think??????

ermmmmmmmmmm yes................

 

[carlosguardia]

Surprised nobody has mentioned this but it is extremely helpful in learning recording techniques to see others do it. Find all the studios there are nearby and offer your services serving coffee. Many great engineers have started out this way. You start by serving coffee, cleaning the place; eventually you begin to put cables away and store back the mics; in some time you'll be assisting in mic'ing a drum set and if you stick around enough, you will have been exposed to so many things that you'll know how to do it yourself.

 

[slidey]

Surprised nobody has mentioned this but it is extremely helpful in learning recording techniques to see others do it. Find all the studios there are nearby and offer your services serving coffee. Many great engineers have started out this way. You start by serving coffee, cleaning the place; eventually you begin to put cables away and store back the mics; in some time you'll be assisting in mic'ing a drum set and if you stick around enough, you will have been exposed to so many things that you'll know how to do it yourself.

true............true unless you live in the far north of scotland

 

[SouthSIDE Glen]

Surprised nobody has mentioned this but it is extremely helpful in learning recording techniques to see others do it. Find all the studios there are nearby and offer your services serving coffee. Many great engineers have started out this way. You start by serving coffee, cleaning the place; eventually you begin to put cables away and store back the mics; in some time you'll be assisting in mic'ing a drum set and if you stick around enough, you will have been exposed to so many things that you'll know how to do it yourself.

Until very recently that would have been my first and foremost answer. Unfortunately for all of us, especially the new incoming generation, the opportunities for that path are drying up fast, even in in many metropolitan areas. The number of big brick and mortar studios with quality staff that actually know what there doing and that don't already have an internship waiting list a mile long from SAE and Full Sail is rapidly declining as the number of pro-quality private home studios increases. It may not be the same in all areas, but it's a general trend that I think will get worse before it gets better. I hope I'm wrong about that, but I honestly don't think I am.

Which means the best advice I can give is a 12-step program:

1. Read everything in print on the subject.
2. Practice.
3. Read some more.
4. Practice some more.
5. Keep reading.
6. Keep practicing.
7. Re-read.
8. Re-practice.
9. By now it's October. Watch the White Sox go to their 2nd playoffs and World Series in a row.
10. Read between innings.
11. Practice between games.
12. Repeat steps 1-11 ad infinitum.

G.

 

[studiomaster]

Practice and practice....