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Carry on being Creative in Isolation: How To Record Effectively In Isolation

Isolation is a tense time. The entire world has been bought together, unwittingly, towards a much greater threat than we ever could’ve imagined. In...

The 5 Components of Successful Marketing (Artists and Musicians)

Content Content. The cornerstone of your marketing. Your All-Access Pass to an easy life if you have a knack for it straight off the bat - however,...

5 Tips for a Modern Metal Vocal by George Lever

George Lever is a U.K. producer working out of Wells, Somerset and Middlefarm Studios. Currently nominated for Best Producer, for the Heavy Music Awards;

Posted in George Lever, Metal, Metal vocals, vocals

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5 Tips To Improve Your Guitar Tone

While you have tons of time to practice and play guitar, lets use this time to help you improve your tone with our 5 main tips while mixing and recording guitars!

Posted in audio engineering, Guitar Tone, how to, Mixing, Mixing Guitars, recording, Tips and Tricks, Wall of Sound

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Enhance Your Mix with spatial effects

...referring to the big 2 - Reverb and Delay. After this, hopefully you’ll have a larger awareness of how to apply both of these, why, and most importantly, in a creative and intuitive way!

Posted in audio engineering, delay, Guitar Tone, how to, Mastering, Mixing, Mixing Guitars, mixing vocals, Modern Pop Music, Radio Ready Vocals, recording, reverb, Vocal Recordings, Vocals

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4 Tricks to a More Clear, and Better Translating Mix

What makes their mixes so great? Surely, a good mix is subjective, right? Well, yes and no. A good mix in the context we’re talking about is controlled, translates well across several types of playback sources, and most importantly I personally think, makes you want to turn it up! So let's talk about how 4 Simple Tricks can help you achieve that.

Posted in Guitar Tone, how to, Mastering, Mixing, Modern Pop Music, recording

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5 TIPS FOR RECORDING MODERN POP VOCALS IN YOUR HOME STUDIO

Record world-class vocals that sound "expensive" on limited gear.

Posted in bh2, How To, Modern Pop Music, Pop Music, Recording

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Studio Spending - Where is your money best spent and why?

Many home studios, or new to the game producers (hell, even ones that have been in it for a few years!) fail to invest in the correct things to better their quality, their workflow, and their knowledge of this craft. With this in mind, I felt it was worth sharing some insights that allowed me to move from recording 3-4 bands a year, and struggling to quit my full time job - to having my studio booked up 6 months in advance, and working with label bands.

Posted in bh1, bh2, black holes series, controlroom, creativelive, home studio, how to, investing, reference 4, urm academy

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Compression - How to use it, and Why?

Compression is a topic that's been covered so many times - however, I’ve always approached production more as a science than as an art, and with this in mind, I think you’ll find this quick guide more helpful than you’d first have thought!

Posted in arturia, brainworx, cakewalk, Compression, FET, Guitar Tone, how to, Mastering, Mixing, Mixing Drums, Mixing Guitars, mixing vocals, Optiocal, plugin allience, Radio Ready Vocals, Recording, VCA, Vintage 67, Vocal Recordings, Vocals

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5 Essential Steps to Create Radio Ready Vocals

Vocals are the hardest part for most aspiring recording and mixing engineers to master, and actually - more often than not, it’s not all down to them!

Posted in How to, JZ Mics, mixing vocals, preamps, Professional Vocal Recording, Radio Ready Vocals, Tips and Tricks, Vintage 67, Vocal Recordings, Vocals

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Proximity Effect - Why you NEED to know about this phenomenon

Simply put, The Proximity Effect is a phenomenon that increases the low-end frequency response of a microphone the closer to the source it is put.

Posted in audio engineering, guitars, how to, microphones, physics of sound, proximity effect, recording, recording bass guitar, vocal recording

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Recording Acoustic Guitar - 2 Placement Techniques to Remember!

Acoustic guitar is a fickle instrument to master, more often than not due to the source recording constantly fighting against you in the mix. It’s either too bright, or too warm and boomy, then there’s distortion the builds up from your choice of mic/preamp/compressor… well, we’re here to change all of that!

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