South African Music Magazine
I’d like to talk about microphones in the next few articles. So far we have looked at recording techniques for most instruments you are likely to come across in your home studio, and I have mentioned some of the options available when choosing a microphone, but I’d like to delve deeper into the different types Read More »
Looking through my previous articles I realised that one instrument that I have not spoken much about is the bass guitar. Despite what you might think, capturing a great bass tone can be a tricky thing to achieve. The nature of low frequencies can often lead to an uncontrolled and muddy bass tone, there are Read More »
A few years ago in a previous article (Drum recording techniques for the home studio Part 1) I spoke briefly about some basic room treatment ideas for the home studio. In this article I want to take another look at some cheap and effective ways of controlling the response of your recording space in your Read More »
Your Private Universe Techniques for the home studio Unconventional Recording Techniques: Bass Guitar The bass guitar has been the source of much frustration for recording and mix engineers for many years. It is one of the most important elements of modern music as it carries most of the low-end energy and groove and yet it Read More »
Unconventional Recording Techniques: Electrical Guitar Techniques For the Home Studio The electric guitar is undoubtedly one the most popular instruments in modern music and over the years many different guitar tones and sounds have become highly desired. One can fairly easily capture a decent guitar sound with a good source instrument and amp. In this Read More »
Techniques for the home studio Generally an acoustic guitar is recorded as accurately as possible to capture the natural sound that we are all familiar with. However in this issue I am going to take a look at some rather unconventional recording techniques for acoustic guitar. Whether you want to create some of your own weird Read More »
This year I want to take Your Private Universe in a slightly different direction. Over the past 14 issues we have looked at con-ventional recording and processing techniques for a number of the usual instruments you are likely to record at home. I want to continue with recording and processing tricks in this coming year, Read More »
I have found myself recording and mixing upright/double bass a number of times lately so in this months issue I will take a look at some EQ and compression tips for this tricky beast. Originally a classical instrument the upright bass has infiltrated into many other genres including Jazz and Blues and sometimes even rock. Read More »
Techniques for the home studio In the June/July 2009 issue of Muse Magazine we discussed some of the basics of recording brass instruments. Two of the main concerns that we covered were that brass instruments develop a high level of SPL (Sound Pressure Level) and also develop a very wide range of harmonics as the sound Read More »
Techniques for the home studio Last issue we looked at numerous ways of treating your drums in the mix in terms of EQ. Most engineers agree that EQ is one of the most important processing techniques available to us when working with Audio. The second most important tool is compres-sion. As a general rule a Read More »
