by musictech | Aug 20, 2018 | Live Sound, Mixing, Tutorials
It’s always better mixing from zero volume.. After you record everything for your song zero all the faders, then bring up the kick drum to a reasonable level (leaving good head room space), then as you add another channel (snare, OH’s, etc) try bringing it up from...
by musictech | Aug 20, 2018 | Studio Monitors, Tutorials
With a little bit of EQ and the right panning you can make your mixes sound almost 3D, that is left, right, forwards and backwards. Here is the tip… Kick drums, Snare drums, Bass guitars & Lead Vocals should be centre positioned in the mix (dead centre). These...
by musictech | Aug 20, 2018 | Live Sound, Tutorials
This tutorial is aimed to help beginners so we have kept the descriptions as free from technical hieroglyphics as we can. The strip is taken from channel 3 on the Behringer XENYX QX2442USB Let’s take a closer look at what the buttons, sliders and dials do on a...
by musictech | Aug 20, 2018 | Studio Monitors, Tutorials
Three points on acoustically treating your room for recording & monitoring…. 1. Making the most of it: As most of us don’t have the budget to build the dream recording space, it pays to know how to work with what you have and generally it’s a spare room with flat...
by musictech | Aug 20, 2018 | Audio Tech Talk
Is it cheating? As always there is a growing divide of opinion over the advances in music technology and it’s effect on the purity of talent vs the distinctly untalented. Can automatic software band generators and vocal correction tools fool the public into accepting...