Archive for the ‘Workflows’ Category
Steve Albini Dishes on His Approach to Recording Drums
April 29, 2012 Drums, TrackingAlbini’s beautifully opinionated approach to recording is perhaps most evident recording drums, capturing the instrument in an authentic way.
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Mic Placement for Metal Guitar (Video)
April 15, 2012 Microphones, Placement, TrackingA brilliant video on mic placement & axis positioning for recording metal guitars.
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Mixing with Headphones: Avoiding Disaster
March 26, 2012 Headphones, MixingIf you absolutely must mix with headphones, here are some tips to help avoid the biggest mistakes people make.
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The Importance of a Great Mixdown Before Mastering.
December 15, 2011 Mastering, MixingIn an ideal world once music has been mixed it would simply be committed to cd or uploaded ready for distribution. In some rare occasions this does happen, though it is fairly uncommon.
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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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Hammond B3 and Leslie Recording Techniques
September 16, 2011 Hammond B3, Leslie Speakers, Mixing, TrackingOne of the most challenging and unique contemporary instruments that you’ll encounter working in professional studios is the Hammond B3 Organ and Lesie Cabinet combination. A prolific, immediately recognizable sound that is very difficult to reproduce without the real deal, the warm tone bars of the Hammond combine with the tube saturation and modulation effects [...]
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Mono Sources in a Stereo World – Michael Franti @ RNC
July 14, 2009 Delay, Effects, Restoration, ReverbRecently I was hired to finesse a rather rough live recording of Michael Franti‘s performance at the protest concert outside the Republican National Convention in 2008. The recording was done with a pair of shotgun mics placed fairly close to each other.
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Mastering Session at Rare Form Mastering
November 3, 2008 MasteringThis post is about the mastering process for my latest EP. The session was booked at Minneapolis’ Rare Form Mastering. Greg Reierson took the helm and did a really solid job overall. First of all, I’m not the sort of producer who does mastering the same way for each album. For my own material, I [...]
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Mastering Experiment: “But They Do” with the Focusrite Liquid Mix
March 8, 2008 MasteringThis post focuses on an experiment with my new Focusrite Liquid Mix, with which I mixed and mastered a song of mine that was in need of polishing. First of all, I will be out of town until the 19th… meaning that I won’t be making any posts here at TSB until then. But, I [...]
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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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