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Recording and Mixing with Audacity

Recording Recording and Mixing with Audacity

Who is this for and what do you need? This is for anyone who wants to make recordings of their playing (or singing) along with basic backing tracks. This isn't meant to be an advanced or even complete tutorial on mixing, and I will be looking at a typical scenario: Backing tracks from an audio file (e.g. Aebersold) or self generated using Band in a Box or iReal Pro. A single recorded track of your saxophone playing (or other instrument/vocal). As the article is about mixing, we assume you have already recorded this. If not then you can download the tutorial tracks supplied which consist of a backing track and a saxophone track. I will be concentrating on Audacity as the audio application as it is very popular. Loads of people use...
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Starting out with Reverb & Compression

Recording Starting out with Reverb & Compression

Reverb Why reverb? There are two main reasons you might add reverb: As an effect to make the music sound "subjectively" better. In this case you, or the audience, hear the reverb as something that can add more life or sparkle to the sound. It is easy to overdo this effect and swamp the recording. This is often the case with beginners, but also we old pros can sometimes be guilty, especially if we just got a new reverb unit or plugin and go a bit overboard. As a way to make a dry recording sound more realistic. If your recording room is very dry, or the instruments/voice are recorded very close, it can sound a bit odd because our ears are used to hearing the ambience of a room. A combination of the two. Setting up on busses First of...
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Home studio soundproofing and DIY acoustic room treatment

Recording Home studio soundproofing and DIY acoustic room treatment

Soundproofing: DIY “Room Within a Room” Home studio acoustics Part 1 Home Studio Acoustics Part 2 – Making HF Absorbers Soundproofing: DIY “Room Within a Room” You will be very lucky to get complete sound proofing for your studio or rehearsal room, but for basic home recording or practising you will get away with partial soundproofing, unless your family/neighbours are really nasty, or you need to cut out the noise from low flying aircraft. When I was at college my landlady complained about my constant saxophone practising so I used to get inside a wardrobe to practise. This worked to a certain extent but was not very pleasant. Note that acoustic tiling, foam tiles or eggboxes will only cut down reverberation inside the room, they do...
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Recording saxophones

Recording Recording saxophones

This article is based on my experience playing the saxophone on recording sessions, and also recording saxophones while working as a producer/sound engineer sometimes alongside some of the best sound engineers in the world in some top studios. These methods work for me and are based on a lot of trial and error as well as years and years of observing great engineers and asking questions. You may find it useful to read the article on microphones first. Microphone Placement A very important question to ask yourself: “Do I want to include the sound (ambience) of the room with the saxophone?” If the room sounds boxy or too reverberant for your taste you should place the microphone close to the saxophone and/or use some damping material...
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Microphones

Recording Microphones

Different Microphone Polar Patterns Polar patternCharacteristics OmniPicks up signal all round CardioidPicks up mainly in front (and a little off-axis sound from side and back) Hyper CardioidSame as Cardioid but more focussed Figure of 8Picks up front and back (with a little off-axis from the side) Sony C-100: choice of OMNI, CARDIOID or FIGURE of 8 Many microphones have only one polar pattern. Some microphones can switch between the various patterns. Cardioid (and hyper cardioid) This is the most common pattern used for recording pop and rock, when close miking instruments or vocals. Used when separation is necessary, or to avoid excessive room ambience. Very close miking with cardioid pattern tends to create a...
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Reaper - Very, Very Basic Guide (Video)

Recording Reaper - Very, Very Basic Guide (Video)

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyuECL6WgqA&feature=emb_logo Quite a few of us on here love and constantly recommend Reaper, but because it's a real studio application many people assume that it will be far too complicated to use ... especially for simple recordings over a backing track. But it's not. And, hopefully, here's the proof. This is my first ever 'how to' video so it's not perfect but it should get you started. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask. And sorry for the lower than ideal video resolution.
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Garageband Tips

Recording Garageband Tips

Here are some notes about how to use GarageBand to record yourself with a backing track Quick Help If you click the Quick Help button at the top left (the icon is a question mark) a popup window will appear which tells you about the screen areas and controls that the cursor is hovering over. Create a new project Close any existing GarageBand project you have open (File > Close). A window pops up with possible project types. Select “Empty Project” and press “Choose” Select “Record using a microphone or line input” and press “Create” You should see the main GarageBand screen with one track created (“Audio 1”) Add a backing track to the Project Find the backing track file in File Manager Copy Return to GarageBand and position the...
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Using Logic Pro for scores

Recording Using Logic Pro for scores

Using Logic’s Score Editor To view the full score choose screenset 3. You can view one sequence only in the score window by double clicking on it’s staff. Click on the black square (top left) to view the entire score again. The same process applies to other editors, e.g. in the event list you will either see a list of sequences or the contents of one sequence. Double click on a sequence in the list to display the contents, click on black square to see the list (see: link mode). There are various ways of viewing only one track instead of the whole score: 1) mute all the other tracks (not very efficient as they have to be muted in the arrange window) 2) Double click on the track (see above). 3) create instrument set with just one...
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Audacity photo tutorial

Recording Audacity photo tutorial

I don't know if this will help or hinder people trying to use Audacity, but here is a photo list of how to do it. First open Audacity, then go to File in the top left hand corner Then drop down to Import and slide across to Audio Now you need to know where your backing tracks are stored. As you can see, mine are in My Music (Windows 7) Then you wait for the track to be imported. Once you hit the record button, another "empty" track will open underneath your imported track. As you play, you can see the blue sound wave appear as you play. You can now adjust the volume levels of each track by looking to the left of the selected track and moving the volume slider left or right. By going to the menu at the top of the screen, you...
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