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There are some essential steps you need to take to ensure that your podcast is a success. You want you and you listener to be clear and easy to understand. Your episodes should free of background noise (where possible) and your episodes should all be roughly the same overall volume. . . . Read more
Recording an acoustic piano is not something many home studio engineers will find themselves doing. For a start, few of us will have a great sounding grand piano casually placed in the middle of studio, let alone room enough to fit one in there. Recording a piano for the first . . . Read more
The microphone that’s always in your pocket. Why not use it? In all honesty, it’s a million times better than the first ever microphone I bought from my local guitar shop back in the 90’s and the iPhone has it’s own unique compression that you can use to your advantage. I’ve . . . Read more
The placement of your room mic can have a drastic effect on whether or not it’s useful later on in the mix. You can’t just drop it anywhere and hope for the best. You might get lucky, but chances are you won’t. If you’re going to go to the trouble . . . Read more
The possibilities are essentially endless. But these three techniques will take you less than a minute to try out. If they don’t add some warmth or body to your mix, you can easily delete them and try something else. It’s best to use parallel processing here. So create a double of . . . Read more
Here’s a quick list of my favourite gear, tools and software that I use on a weekly basis and couldn’t live without. Hardware Samson SR-850 headphones I bought these when funds were tight and I was in desperate need of a replacement, and I had every intention of upgrading as . . . Read more