Archive for the ‘Tracking’ 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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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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How to Record Piano
February 22, 2008 TrackingThis post is a continuation of my instrument series and describes the standard variations of recording piano, both grand and upright styles. Ahhh piano. One of the quintessential instruments that almost everyone knows the sound of. Like the snare drum that I featured in my last how-to, the piano is a complex instrument with many [...]
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Tracking a Band in a Single Room…
February 16, 2008 TrackingThis post focuses on the classic challenge of how to record a band in a single room and not have it sound completely awful. Lots of us have small production studios and tons of bands have single room practice spaces. Inevitably the question arises: “How can I record the band live in a single room [...]
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Idea: Rolling Tracking Station
February 12, 2008 DIY, TrackingThis post focuses on an idea I’ve had for a while: a rolling station that can be moved easily around the studio to ease tracking difficulty when working alone. One problem that I’ve run into is that, when working in a studio setup that includes a control room and a tracking room, it becomes very [...]
Read More »Adding Real Ambience After-the-Fact
February 7, 2008 Mixing, TrackingThis post focuses on capturing ambience by playing back and re-recording sounds in acoustic spaces. The idea of piping sounds into a space and retracking it isn’t new by any stretch of the imagination. Before the advent of reverb processors it was common practice to route audio to speakers in reverb chambers to achieve ambient [...]
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