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The long, never-ending, always depends on who you ask debate about starting a career in “the music business” as an audio engineer: should I go to a recording school? Personally, I didn’t attend a recording school, but I taught at one for a long time in many different cities. From seeing how the students did [...]

Recording music is a totally different beast from playing live. And whether you’re going into a big studio or doing it on your own with a laptop and a DAW, there’s a few guitar-specific things you can do to make the whole process go faster and sound better. 1. Use new strings – You want [...]

It is clear that booking studio time and spending hourly fee’s to record your music is pretty much a thing of the past. Thanks to technology musicians can, with minimum recording equipment and relatively very little money produce great sounding recordings from the comfort of their bedroom studio’s. However, to make your bedroom studio production [...]

So you want to be a better singer? Probably heard yourself in a recording and went “Oh damn! Why do I sound so bad!?!” yeah…. that happens a lot… but if you have a good voice, then you can become a better studio singer with some well-targeted practice.   This post will give you one of many [...]

I first did this when we hired Eddie Kramer to teach a workshop for some of our students (which, honestly was a trip and a half – when you’re mic’ing a drum kit and the guy standing next to you says, “So when we were recording D’Yer Mak’er, I had this idea to try something [...]

Being willing to listen, really listen to the audio, and not just “feeling the song” is the most important if you are an engineer, but that’s not something that falls under a “music recording quick tip” which is what I’m tasked to do, so we can talk about that later. Recording and Mixing Stacks (the [...]

The majority of people are not aware of how much sound has permeated every aspect of daily life. Every sound from music, television, and radio has to be created and edited prior to being heard. Online degree programs are available to provide the knowledge that makes up these skills to students who choose to learn [...]

Should you go to a recording school or not? If you are a hard worker who will exploit your time at a recording school by going to every single class, booking as much lab time as possible, networking with other students, your instructors, and guest speakers, then yes, you will learn a heck of a [...]

So you want to make beats? Rap and hip-hop have long ago established themselves as two of the most popular genres of music and have had a tremendous impact on culture and life. You’ve seen the rap and hip-hop stars on MTV, you’ve seen the glory they receive, and now you think it’s your turn [...]

Article by C Churchill Recently I have come across a rather surprising interview by a so-called reputable recording engineer and writer on the subject of studio recording techniques. He was essentially claiming that men do not want to work with women in the studio. So, he concludes that it is for …

Creating a great mix starts with organization – you need to organize how you will go about it. If you want to mix like the pros then you want to create the best mix and you can achieve this by breaking it down into small pieces. Here are the steps to create the best mix [...]

The second studio I ever opened was in New Jersey where I learned the term “NJHC” which basically means, “Don’t F*ck with those guys!” The New Jersey Hard Core metal scene basically consisted of various bands who threatened to kick my ass on multiple occasions, which I later learned is a sign of good will [...]

Technically, how to record guitar amplifiers. … though I did have a phase where I’d put piezo contact microphone on the body of an electric guitar (if it was made of decent wood) and blend it with the rest of the signals in the guitar recording. There were a few times when it sounded good, or at [...]

When recording vocals you want them to be full, but sometimes that results in getting too much bass in your vocals, which makes it a pain to get to settle into the final mix of your song. Here are some tips to prevent getting too much low end in your vocal recording. First you have [...]

I’ve used the term “frequency dynamics” in music when recording and mixing forever (yeah, I’m about THAT old). However, for some reason recently I decided to Google frequency dynamics to see what I could find from other people and was a bit surprised by the results… mainly because I have no idea what most of those results are [...]

Singing with Emotion: The test of a great singer in the studio. Sad, sad songs say so much. We get a lot of people looking for input on how to have more emotion when singing in a recording studio. It’s not easy to turn emotion into a tone of your voice, but with some practice [...]

We’ve posted a lot about how to make recording vocals sound better, so will combine some of them in one place. Some quick tips and tricks about recording vocals from other posts on BlareShare. The first set are vocal recording tips for engineers, but there’s also some tips for singers in the studio as well [...]

When recording an acoustic guitar your fist choice is: record in stereo or in mono? For purposes of this post we’ll talk only about stereo mic techniques for an acoustic guitar since that tends to offer more options, and as such, sometimes more confusion about which technique is best for both your instrument and the [...]

Mic placement and EQ for a Hi-Hat. Drum hi-hats can sizzle, crash, shwoosh, and clang… they can be a pain. Sometimes it feels as though not matter how hard you work, you can’t quite get the hi-hat sound you want in a mix to match the music; especially if you’re in a home recording studio. [...]

Home recording studio set up must have audio gear items. Sometimes must have studio gear isn’t always audio gear, it’s power gear, which is the foundation of how analog sound is transmitted throughout your studio. This list of must have audio gear has the most fundamental gear list that every home studio needs when starting, [...]