Archive for the ‘Gear’ Category
How to Bounce or Consolidate Tracks for Archiving or Mixing
September 25, 2011 Archving, DAWsOne of the worst things to happen, in my opinion, is to have material locked in a particular proprietary DAW format. Most DAW software stores its session data in non-interchangeable formats that can only be opened by that particular DAW package. It gets worse when you factor in version changes. Most software is designed to [...]
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Audio Adaptor Kits
June 18, 2011 AdaptorsI just put together an audio adaptor kit! For about the price of a couple of adaptors at Radio Shack I bought the kitchen sink from Monoprice.com
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Reaper: Leaner, Meaner, Cheaper, Than Cubase or Pro Tools
April 29, 2011 DAWs, ReaperReaper is a leaner, meaner digital audio workstation than Pro Tools or Cubase without the hassles.
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Review: Ohm Force Ohmicide Distortion Plugin
May 6, 2009 Distortion, PluginsLast post I took some time to write up a review for Ohm Force‘s Symptohm synthesizer. This time around I’ll be looking at their Ohmicide multiband distortion plugin. I’m a sucker for distortions and was pretty excited to give it a spin.
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Review: Ohm Force Symptohm Synth Plugin
April 10, 2009 Plugins, SynthThe guys over at Ohm Force, an indie plugin development group out of Paris, asked me if I wanted to do a review of some of their plugins. I was happy to do so, as long as I could give an honest appraisal. So in this post I’ll be reviewing one of the four plugs [...]
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How Do I Get My Songs to Play at the Same Volume?
February 11, 2009 Software, VolumeThis article isn’t about mastering a CD so that the songs are all at the same perceived volume, it’s about getting your music collection to play back at reasonable volumes relative to each other. It’s also about providing this feature to your digital distribution customers. I’m sure you’ve at some point put your music collection [...]
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How to Add a Subwoofer to Your Monitor System
February 7, 2009 Speakers, SubwoofersSo you want to add a subwoofer to your monitor setup? Studio subwoofers can be tricky things that require a little bit of audio soul searching, auditioning, and planning to pull off well. But, a well integrated sub can make a world of difference in the right circumstances. I, for example, just added a Mackie [...]
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How to Group Tracks to Save DAW CPU
March 8, 2008 DAWs, MixingThis post focuses on how to group tracks to save CPU or DSP processing. When I first started mixing using a computer, I would throw up inserts on everything. Everything was processed independently. As you might imagine, my mixes were insanely CPU intensive and hard to manage. Soon I realized that many of the tracks [...]
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Speaker Placement: Nearfield Monitors
March 7, 2008 NearfieldsThis post focuses on some of the basics of nearfield speaker placement, where and why and a little how. It used to be that studios had huge wall-mounted speakers that required equally large rooms to work properly. Commercial studios are carefully acoustically tweaked. I won’t go into acoustic treatments here, but needless to say a [...]
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How to Use Visual Audio Analyzers and Scopes
March 4, 2008 Plugins, VisualizationThis post focuses on ways to use visual audio scopes to gain more understanding about what’s going on in your audio. It’s important to state right off the bat that working with audio should primarily be an auditory experience. In general people won’t be looking at visual representations of audio as much as they will [...]
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