Recording Magazine Beginners Series

The Compleat Recording Musician - Part 1

2008-12-04 02:09:52

Welcome to the first installment in this comprehensive 36-part biweekly series on the recording process. While this series is based on the previously published series entitled The Compleat Recording Musician, it has been updated and reedi...

The Compleat Recording Musician - Part 2

2008-12-04 01:46:59

In TCRM #1, I stated that the exact technology used to record or make music is much less important than how it’s used. Though Ste...

The Compleat Recording Musician - Part 3

2009-10-20 14:24:09

These days you're surrounded by devices that do digital audio recording—it's the norm, and not just in your studio where you may have one or several of these: A computer—desktop or laptop—that functions as a ...

The Compleat Recording Musician - Part 4

2009-07-20 23:58:23

Last time, we explored the basic principles of digital audio. This included discussion of bit-depth, quantization, clipping, dither, signal-to-noise ratios, sample rates, and aliasing. Part 2 builds on this foundation: exploring converter...

The Compleat Recording Musician - Part 7

2009-08-27 17:00:34

As recordists, our goal is to make the best sounding recordings possible. That hinges largely on the talent and skills of the participants and the quality of the equipment. But much more mundane yet hugely important issues come into it: G...

The Compleat Recording Musician - Part 5

2009-07-21 00:10:56

In this installment I outline the basics of signal flow. There was a time when all signals in a studio passed through a big chunk of hardware called a mixer (a.k.a. desk, board, console). That’s becoming a thing of the past, esp...

The Compleat Recording Musician - Part 6

2009-07-20 23:21:32

On the Level

Now that TCRM 5 has taken some of the m...

The Compleat Recording Musician - Part 8

2009-10-20 14:11:35

Over the course of the next five installments I will address the workings and use of microphones. This will include both technical and practical aspects such as transducer types, patterns, proximity effect, spacing, and frequency response...

The Compleat Recording Musician - Part 9

2009-11-05 16:59:52

This installment of TCRM adds to the previous discussion of microphone types, preamps, signal flow, converters and levels – we will explore various techniques regarding mic choice and placement.

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