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Vocal Magic 

Jul 1, 2006,

By Mike Levine

It would be natural to assume that as digital audio technology has become more sophisticated, the job of the engineer and producer has gotten easier with...

Mixing Down and Speaking Up 

Jul 1, 2006,

By Paul Tingen

Master mixer Dave Pensado enjoys causing consternation among his peers by making controversial statements about the craft of recording. He takes great...

Recording the Genius 

Jun 1, 2006,

By Mike Levine

Terry Howard spent almost 20 years working as Ray Charles's engineer, winning three Grammy Awards in the process and getting an insider's view of Charles's...

The Matrix 

Jun 1, 2006,

By Jim Aikin

All too often, the sounds produced by synthesizers are lifeless and boring. (I'm a huge fan of synthesizers, so I'm allowed to say that.) Various techniques...

No Spam, No Foul 

Jun 1, 2006,

By Fran Vincent

You've just opened your email box, and a deluge of unwanted, suspicious, and possibly fraudulent messages glare back at you, smugly daring you to open...

Acting on Impulse 

Jun 1, 2006,

By Alex Kemmler

Convolution reverb is rapidly gaining popularity as a powerful sonic tool. Though there is a lot of information describing the theory (see the excellent...

ReWired for Effects 

Jun 1, 2006,

By David Darlington

Producers and engineers are constantly trying to come up with something new when mixing their latest creation. To that end, they invest in plug-in and...

Fun with Formants 

Jun 1, 2006,

By Len Sasso

Formants are usually associated with vowel sounds; they are the natural resonances of the vocal tract that give vowels their character. Acoustic instruments...

A New Look at Vocoding 

May 1, 2006,

By Len Sasso

You can think of a vocoder as a morphing multiband equalizer, in which the morphing is controlled by a spectral analyzer. Typically, speech (called the...

Jingles All the Way 

May 1, 2006,

By Steve Skinner

If you're skilled at composing, arranging, and producing, there's money to be made writing music for advertising. As with television and film scoring,...

Better Safe Than Sorry 

May 1, 2006,

By Mike Levine

Imagine spending an entire week working on a critically important music project. You toil day and night orchestrating, programming, and recording. You...

The Art of the Pad 

May 1, 2006,

By Steve Skinner

What's the question that musicians hear the least? No, it isn't Is that the trombone player's Porsche? It's How'd you get that nice pad? One of the most...

Timing Is Everything 

May 1, 2006,

By Brian Smithers

Horticulturalist Luther Burbank is credited with defining a weed as any plant that is growing in the wrong place. In that same spirit, one could consider...

Label Enablers 

Apr 1, 2006,

By Jeffrey P. Fisher

In an ideal world, every musician would have professionally printed, slick-looking labels for the CDs and DVDs they record. But the reality is that when...

Gaining Tracktion 

Apr 1, 2006,

By Jim Aikin

When Mackie unveiled Tracktion in 2004, more than a few industry veterans scratched their heads in perplexity. There were already several good digital...

Hired Guns 

Apr 1, 2006,

By Michael Cooper

A couple of years ago, on the advice of famed producer Byron Gallimore, I began tracking my country-music song demos in Nashville. My Oregon-based studio...

Listening to Monitors 

Apr 1, 2006,

By Rusty Cutchin

If you're thinking about buying your first set of dedicated studio monitors or about upgrading the ones you have, it can be daunting to try to assimilate...

Xtreme Processing 

Apr 1, 2006,

By Eli Krantzberg

You can often use several instances of the same plug-in to achieve realistic-sounding effects. The cumulative result of serial processing with subtle...

Have Knowledge, Will Travel 

Mar 1, 2006,

By Jeffrey P. Fisher

Several months ago, this column looked at how to leverage your recording smarts into technical-writing gigs (see Working Musician: Landing the Write Job...

Vive la Différence 

Mar 1, 2006,

By Mark Ballora

We've all heard it: If you want to do a job right, use the right tool for the job. If your job is to record something, your main tool is the microphone....

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