Frost King weather strips can significantly improve a basement studio's isolation.
[Editor's Note: This is part two of Bobby Owsinski's series on how to improve a basement studio without busting one's budget. Part one can be found here]
Before you begin to place your gear in your basement studio, there’s one big question that every musician has to tackle: how do you keep the sound of your recording and rehearsals from disturbing everyone else in the house?
The answer is that you have to beef up your isolation. [click to continue…]
Welcome to the latest installment of Production Tips, our new monthly feature offering, well, production tips, hosted by Simon Langford.
Last time we looked at ways in which you can get remix parts (most often vocal stems or a capellas) in order to start building your own showreel. This would then enable you to approach labels with concrete work to demonstrate what you are capable of. There is also another, less obvious, benefit. [click to continue…]
Comprehensive instructional videos on recording techniques can be hard to love. They can be extremely dry, offer an overabundance of information, and can generally be difficult to navigate though in order to find the answers you are looking for.
But Studio Concepts, Gear and the Physics of Sound, the first installment of ASKVideo’s The Studio Edge: Pro Audio Audio Recording Series, while still slightly on the dry side, manages to successfully surmount other two aforementioned issues.
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Welcome to the latest installment of Production Tips, our new monthly feature offering, well, production tips, hosted by Simon Langford.
One of the most difficult jobs you will face as a remixer is actually getting your first gig, because it’s very much a chicken and egg situation: you need to get a showreel together to get a remix, but you need to get a remix (or a few) in order to get together your showreel. So if you are starting out and don’t have a reputation to help you open doors, what can you do to take matters in your own hands and start the ball rolling? [click to continue…]
