Don’t underestimate the importance of great mixing! There is no denying that many artists are choosing to purchase recording gear and record themselves at home. There are certainly many advantages of recording yourself at home, not the least of which is the potential cost savings versus recording at a big
Read more →Elliot Scheiner is one of the top producers/engineers in the world, with 24 Grammy nominations, 7 Grammy awards, 4 Emmy nominations, 1 Emmy award, 3 TEC Awards nominations, etc…. The list goes on! Even if you don’t know his name, you have most certainly heard his work. Yesterday I had
Read more →I’m really starting to get into remixing, even though I’m not a dance club, DJ type producer. I certainly don’t keep up with modern dance music trends, even though I do enjoy the music. Instead, what I like to do is to take the songs in a different direction than
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Want bigger & fuller sounding songs? Less is More! The biggest problem I encounter with inexperienced artists, producers, and engineers these days is that there is too much of everything. Too many parts in the song arrangements. Too many tracks in the recording. Too many plugins in the mix. Too
Read more →Revised & Updated! This is an old article I wrote in the early 90s. Quite a bit has changed since then, but most of the advice here still applies. With the reworking of my site in 2012, I have gone through this article and made some additions and revisions to
Read more →Recently, someone was thinking about buying a digital recording system and was wondering if he really could get major label quality results from a low budget home studio system. He was specifically concerned about whether or not he would be able to obtain the “warmth” he was used to from
Read more →Here is a reply of mine to a person who asked “how do you become a professional producer?”. First of all, realize that there is a difference between a “producer” and an “engineer”. The producer is pretty much the creative director. He usually doesn’t operate the equipment or anything like
Read more →Often on newgroups or forums, people will ask how to achieve a certain vocal sound. The following is my reply to one such post where someone was looking to achieve that contemporary up front, in your face sound, that is also wide (stereo) sounding and has some depth to it.
Read more →Every microphone is different and imparts its own unique sound to whatever you are recording. There is a very good reason why the best studios have a very large assortment of microphones…. Every microphone is different and imparts its own unique sound to whatever you are recording. There is a
Read more →Random tips and thoughts on recording acoustic guitars taken from several of my postings to the newsgroups. Here are some random tips and thoughts on recording acoustic guitars taken from several of my postings to the newsgroups. — The most important part of getting a good sound is the source
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