Category: Tutorials

  • Speak down!

    I saw Morgan Freeman on Conan O’Brien a while ago where he spoke about how he had voice coaching when he went to actor school. Morgan Freeman has that nice deep voice that’s never annoying (in other words, he would suck as a sports commentator), it was very apparent in the great documentary “March of […]

  • The recording chain

    Today I’m going to talk about the chain which you’ll ideally record with. If the things I talk about here sounds like Star Trek stuff, then just go back and read the previous tutorial posts. Originally posted on September 13, 2007 @ 12:54 pm

  • Dynamics own brick wall – the limiter

    If you haven’t read the post on compressors yet, now is the time to do it. A lot of people don’t really get the difference between a limiter and a compressor, and it’s not hard to understand why, they feature the same controls. With that said, I won’t go through all the controls here again, […]

  • So you wanna make your own podcast?

    If you haven’t done any recording in the past, it’s a good chance that you have absolutely no clue about what you need to do recordings and how to set it up. Never fear, your podcast hero is here! Originally posted on August 1, 2007 @ 4:43 am

  • Compressor – when you don’t want dynamic results

    The compressor is next to the EQ perhaps the most used tool in mixing. The basic principle behind it is easy to understand from the name: it compresses the audio signal, and thus reducing the dynamics. The purposes for this are more than one. Originally posted on August 15, 2007 @ 6:36 am