Most composers, engineers and producers will tell you that while you can get remarkably close with MIDI sounds and plug-in samplers, there are always a few instruments that seem too intricate and complex to be represented accurately in the box. At the top of the list would certainly be drums Read more...
Phase problems are the bane of any engineer’s existence. A typical tracking setup in a recording studio will almost always include sound sources being captured by multiple inputs or microphones. When recording drums, bass, guitar cabs, room mics, and anything in stereo, for example, phase-related issues will come up.
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Over the last couple years, plug-ins like Mellowmuse’s SATV and CS1V as well as SoundToys Decapitator and Devil-Loc have made it so I can mix in-the-box and still get those gritty harmonic qualities of the analog gear I’d grown to love in my analog mixing days.
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Let’s face it: Today’s music and songwriting professionals are expected to not only deliver content that’s exciting, creative, and multi-genre but also make sure it sounds pretty damn good out of the gate. Oh, and the client needs it yesterday. Many world-class songwriters and composers admittedly fight and hack Read more...
The classics. In the pro audio world there is an elite level of products whose presence in the recording studio, or on the stage is a given. Everyone knows what they are and how they should sound when you plug them in. Sometimes we even take them for granted.
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