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Reverb Treatment for Your Mix (1)
You'll find that some instruments sound best with the dark reverb, while others benfit from the bright reverb. You may also find that some instruments sound good when they have a bit of each reverb. Please do experiment this. Keep in mind t...
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[Acoustics] Lab 16: Reverberation Programs
Multi-effects processors or softwares have many different types of reverberation programs (or presets) pre-programmed into its memory. While artificially generated, many of them attempt to simulate th...
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The Moral of Working Method in Mixing
You probably have experienced some of the mistakes that you should avoid during your mixing. Now, the question is: what is the correct way of working? There are many, and every audio engineer has his...
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Exploring Synthesis (1)
A "sound designer" is a person who does just that, designs sounds. A sound designer might be creating special effects for a space movie, a car commercial or creating a keyboard patch for use on a musi...
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The Effect of Threshold and Ratio on Compressor's Output Level
In this article, I will suggest you an operation from which you will gather data that will aid you in understanding how the threshold and ratio parameters effect the operation of a compressor. You wil...
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Kalide 'Collage': A Powerful Multi-effects Plug-in that Quickly Takes Your Music to New and Unexpected Places with a Unique and Customizable User Interface
The American brand-new audio plug-in developer Kalide has announced the release of 'Collage' — A multi-effects audio plug-in for AU/VST/AAX designed to quickly take your music to new and unexpected p...
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The Terminology Generally Used in Agreement between Artist and Record Label (4)
Commercial Release of Records: Company will release the Records within _____ months of delivery of the Master Recordings (the "Guaranteed Release Date"). Artist can provide written notice if Company f...
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Comparing The Effects of Reverb
Most songs can benefit from added reverb, so choose a song you like for the following tasks: 1) Compare and contrast the different reverb types: Select and audition the four different types of reverb...
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Listen Carefully to the Compressed Sound
Assume that you are about to reduce the dynamics of a signal by lowering the compressor's threshold so that it will attenuate the loudest parts of the signal. You will then raise the compressed signal...
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Learning Signal Flow of Post Production Studio
To better understand the connections in your post production studio, you should group them by type. There are three basic layers in a standard post production studio system: Video, Audio, and Sync. Fu...
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Tomas Brhel 'Song Noter': A Music Collaboration App that allows users to create Time-Stamped Notes on Audio Files and Share them with friends
Tomas Brhel, the software developer based in Czech Republic has recently announced the release of 'Song Noter' — The music collaboration app (iOS) that allows users to create time-stamped notes on their audio files and share them with fri...
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Copy the Original Mix
Trying to copy someone else's mix is a valuable training exercise. To do a good job you must first closely analyze what the original mix is doing with timbres, pans, levels, reverbs, compression, etc....
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An Overview of Post-Production Work
Assume that you are watching a commercial you will be working on for your post production work. You will analyze the picture and come up with a potential structure for the soundtrack (you should be th...
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Guidelines prior to Recording Instruments (1)
1. Pan the tom-toms (Drums): Typically, tom-toms pan left to right with the highest tom panned to 9:00, the middle tom panned to 12:00 and the lowest tom panned to 3:00. 2. When you copy an existing s...
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A Brief on Signal Generator (2)
You will be using a signal generator (a.k.a. sine wave generator) in many different applications in professional audio and music creation. It is therefore important to know how the output level of the...
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'Michelle Branch' Stage Plot and Input List (July 16, 2001)
'Michelle Branch' Stage Plot and Input List (July 16, 2001) || 1. Stage plot (for live performance), 2. Input List (for the above stage plot)...
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