Archive for tag: Room
DIY Acoustic Panel Bass Traps: Treating Your Room Right
July 26, 2011 Acoustics, DIYBuild super-effective DIY bass traps acoustic treatments for around $75 a panel.
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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 Create Depth in a Mix
March 6, 2008 MixingThis post focuses on the topic of creating a sense of depth in mixes. It’s not too hard to make things sound big. It’s not too hard to make things sound wide. But it is very hard to do both while also creating a sense of depth. There are a myriad of tools available to [...]
Read More »Convolution: Untangling the Qualities of Sound
January 28, 2008 UncategorizedThis post focuses on convolution as it applies to audio – the capturing and reapplication of the qualities of sound. A few years ago some new-fangled audio processing engines started to leak out of the lab and into the market involving a process called convolution. The name convolution comes from the type of math involved, [...]
Read More »Labeling Your Tracks: Ground Zero for Organization
January 19, 2008 UncategorizedThis post is focused on the simple, neglected, and powerful practice of labeling tracks in a session. This post may seem like something entirely obvious that should remain unspoken… but it isn’t. You would be surprised how often I have seen session tracks titled “New Track” and audio files named “Untitled1.wav”. The first step to [...]
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