Category: Recording

Top 10 Affordable Audio Interfaces

    Quick Answer 10. RME Babyface Pro 24-channel USB Audio Interface 9. Roland Studio-Capture USB Audio Interface 8. TASCAM Celesonic US-20×20 USB 3.0 Audio Interface 7. PreSonus Studio 1810c USB-C Audio Interface 6. Peavey PV 6 v2 Mixer with USB 5. Universal Audio Apollo Twin MKII SOLO 10×6 Thunderbolt Audio Interface with UAD DSP […]

What is a Recording Engineer?

    Quick Answer A recording engineer is responsible for recording during the tracking and overdub sessions of the recording process.  A recording engineer needs to have a comprehensive understanding of acoustics, tape machine or DAW operation, gain staging, mic placement, and microphone types, and the studio gear used for recording. What is a Recording […]

What is a Music Producer?

    Quick Answer A Music Producer contributes at least one of the following to the production of a song, EP, or album: Overview and organization, music performance, tracking, mixing and effects processing, and coaching and inspiration.  Being a music producer means knowing how you can positively affect the music production process. What is a […]

Top 10 Audio File Formats

  Audio formats can become complex pretty quickly.  There are a lot to choose from, and picking the best one for your professional audio needs, or just for casual listening can easily become daunting. Fortunately, there are ways to determine which audio format is best for you. We’ll be ranking the top 10 audio formats […]

What is the Future of Music?

  This is certainly not the easiest question – but one that deserves speculation nonetheless. Since music is such an integral part of our daily lives, to ask “what is the future of music?” is really to ask a question about ourselves, and how music will continue to shape how we live. The future of […]

1 of the Biggest Myths in Home Studio Recording

  If we’ve heard it once, we’ve heard it a hundred times – don’t record too hot in a digital recording set up.  The reason for this being, that by doing so, you’re limiting your headroom. But is this truly the case? Does recording hotter really mean you won’t have any headroom? Furthermore, could there […]

How to Create a Distinctive Lo-Fi Sound

  Lo-fi can be difficult to define.  It’s typically something you can identify once you hear it.   Simply put, lo-fi is a production sound or style opposite to what we perceive to be a high quality recording. Since recording technology is changing, and we base our notion of high definition on the recording technology […]

How to Pitch Shift Without Losing Quality

  Sampling and pitch shifting often go hand in hand.  Altering a sample’s pitch to give it a unique characteristic is great in theory. But, if used excessively, the quality of the sample can degrade quickly. With a bit of planning, and the use of a 96kHz. file, clean pitch-shifting can be accomplished. Alter Your […]

Remove Unwanted Clicks Fast with Izotope’s RX

  There’s a fair amount of talk in the audio world, regarding how to minimize the negative effects that jitter, electric pops, hisses, and plosives can have on a recording; however, little is said about an issue that is far more pervasive than any of the aforementioned noises.  It’s so rarely mentioned in articles or […]