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Archive for October, 2009


Tips & Techniques For Recording Guitar With Multiple Amps (Video)

Here’s a very interesting video series on recording guitar in the studio from Ken Lewis. It includes information on amp choice, microphone choice, etc. Great examples of ribbon mics and condenser mics are included. Here’s an introduction from Ken: I am currently producing rock band “MIGGS” for RockRidge Records (Fall 2009). These videos show my [...]

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The Ultimate Microphone Shootout!

You’ve heard your fair share of microphone shootouts on my podcast over at http://ProjectStudioNetwork.com and on the podcast of my good friend Slau over at http://SessionsWithSlau.com. But, you ain’t heard or seen nothin’ like this! To demonstrate just how roadworthy the venerable Shure SM58 is (and the Shure SM57), the good ol’ boys at Shure [...]

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Automated Mixing? Waves New Vocal Rider Plugin

Waves new Vocal Rider plugin was just introduced at AES 2009. Vocal Rider is designed to match your vocal tracks to the rest of the mix and then keep the relative volume throughout the song. All you do is instantiate it on your vocal track, bus a summed instrumental mix to the side-chain, and hit [...]

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Ask Big Al: Using Analog Mixers For “Color”

This represents a new feature here on the blog, “Ask Big Al“. I get a lot of questions from a lot of sources, but recently a lot from my Twitter followers. Some answers are short and easy, and some aren’t. So, I decided to offer to answer the more complex questions via posts here on [...]

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Get A Great Electric Piano Plugin On The Cheap

MrRay73 Mark II is a digital simulation of the famous american electro-mechanical piano of the seventies, invented during World War II by a music teacher, Harold B. Rhodes (1910 – 2000), and widely used in almost all musical genres ranging from soul music to jazz, blues, modern and pop. This instrument has rapidly become a [...]

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