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Recording Engineer's Quarterly provides the recording & music industry with recording articles,
recording training, audio recording tips, and links to other sites of interest to the
musician, recordist, songwriter, professional recording engineer
and producer. |
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FEATURE
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Two new
Developing
Artist Articles paint the picture of what you need to or can do
in today's music industry. |
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RADIO HITS & PROMOTION: In the sixties a radio
format called "Top 40" was a viable format. Today there's much
less music on radio and a lot of news/talk/sports. Radio
play and "rotational play" still influence sales, but not
anywhere to the degree that they once did. How do you use
radio for promotion today? |
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DISTILLATION IN
PRODUCTION:
One difference between an amateur
photographer and a professional is how many shots are used. The
professional photographer and music producer uses "distillation"
to get the best final product, tossing out the product attempts
that weren't as good. |
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FEATURE
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BUILDING HOME
PROJECT STUDIOS |
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Building Your
Cottage Recording Studio
Which is more important to you, a new car or a personal recording
studio to record your music in? If you sided with the
studio, maybe that extra building on your property should house
your studio, rather than your car. Complete plans on
installing a professional-sounding home project studio. A must
read! |
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Building Your Home Studio Right - Part 1
The last article has complete plans for putting
a good recording studio in your 2 car garage. It was a really nice
set of plans, but what about reality? The plans were pretty
idealistic. What about real situations where there's a more
limited budget and you don't have the space that those plans
require?
Bob gives you rules to live
by when installing a studio in a less ideal space. |
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Building Your Home Studio Right - Part 2
Moving back to the garage format, we have a smaller, one-car
garage. See how Bob fit everything needed into this smaller space. |
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TIPS ON USING THE
GOLDEN SECTION IN STUDIO DESIGN
A series of tips on mixing posted last December and January.
These are shortly going to be archived for paid subscriber use
only. The series of 6 tips can get you marked improvement
in your mixing quality. |
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Golden Section Studio Design - Part 1
The ancient Greeks knew acoustics and
projected their plays to thousands in the audience without electronic
amplifiers and speakers. The "Golden Section" is introduced by Bob.
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Golden Section Studio Design Part 2
Sometimes
you just don't have the room to use the full Golden Section. Bob
explains on how to "cheat" on length or height while keeping a
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Golden Section Studio Design - Part 3
Modern "Mini Studios" sound a lot better
if the Golden Section dimensions are used. Bob shows an unusual
application of the GS design method for a garage-based project studio.
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Golden Section Studio Design - Part 4
The
fourth tip in this series covers the use of sound-absorbing treatment
with the studio that uses the Golden Section Dimensions.
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Little Space - Big Sound? - Pt.1
Small rooms sound bad largely
because the room reflections tends to "ring back" at an undesirable
frequency. In a large room, this "ring" tends to be at very low
frequencies; but as the room gets small this "ring-out" moves up in
frequency, making it more audible and objectionable. Bob explains...
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Little Space - Big Sound? - Pt.2
Bob shows his design for a
super-small studio/control room set up that is too small to use the
Golden Section ratios. A design for self-constructed bass traps is
included. |
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RID
COMIC RELIEF
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Input Overload -
Scene 3
by FrankG
One of the favorite pastimes of the
staff is to poke fun at the boss. In this panel, FrankG
reveals that this has been going on for years. |
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RECORDING WEBSITE ARTICLES & TIPS |
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FROM THE
RECORDING WEBSITE BOARDS |
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THE SOUND OF EQ by Bob Dennis
Let's start right there at the beginning.
What exactly are you going to be doing? Do you have an idea? If not,
all the equipment in the world won't do you any good. Once you've
got a basic plan in mind, then you can start to build your system. |
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RECORDING WEBSITE FEATURED TIPS |
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VOCAL RECORDING & PRODUCTION:
Whether you are recording live instruments or using MIDI and
sampling to make your music tracks, you'll still record your vocals
with the singer/rapper in front of a microphone. The following
articles and tips, from the Recording Website tip archives, are
about getting professional vocal results in your personal production
studio. |
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Microphone Placement On
Vocals
by Bob Dennis:
What does Sally Sucking Soup have to do with micing vocals?
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The Key To Getting A Good Vocal Sound
by Bob Dennis: There are technical reasons why vocals don't
sound the best. Here's the problems and their solutions. |
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Producing Final Vocals by Bob
Dennis: Vocalists
usually perform better when they have a music producer. Here's what the producer
does to get a good vocal performance. |
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Overdub & Mix by Bob Dennis:
There are those sets of words that shouldn't be used in the same
sentence. Combinations of words like "honest & politician," "jumbo &
shrimp," and "overdub & mix" should always be separated by periods.
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