How to Produce Music at Home
To schedule the recording? For now, the song must be comfortable and smooth performance when you save them all together. Some people prefer to pieces by recording his first song to work. In any case, you need an organizational system in place that makes sense.
Ask a file tree. A file structure is like a sketch of a test, with the exception of the cases. Start by clicking on the drive that is connected and create a new folder called Project 1, for example. Then open the folder and create another folder called raw tracks. Here you will find all the tracks that take up dry, ie without effects. Each track is recorded dry at all times. The effects can be added to the mixed phase. Each portion of each track should start with a sequential number after to keep the track and the tracks have an instrument of his titles are recorded. You can also create folders for different instruments to be registered as such in the first tracks: bass, vocals, guitar, rhythm guitar, harmonies, kick, snare, Hi Hat, 16 "Crash 18" Crash Ride, Tom 1, Tom 2, Tom Transparency floor 1 and 2, and keyboards. This seems tedious to scroll, while the mixing process organized, so in their own files for final mixing.
Create a folder in a folder called Project wet runway. Here you will find any way to get after applying effects, processing, standardization and automation that can be used in mixing. The same sequential numbering for each wet you take with sec. This ensures that you go back and hear how the different effects of processing or the addition or subtraction of its composition.
Finally, you make another folder under the project for a folder called Master. Again, as with the previous image, use a sequential numbering scheme so that you can relate to every teacher.
Get a notebook and take notes on all the options for each change you make to each track. If you find a compressor with threshold, then go back and change it and give you the name of the compressor, and where all the parameters specific track. Detailed notes make the original settings in case of lost or damaged files again. This should be done in the registry at every step.
The placement of the microphone for an acoustic drum:
The placement of the microphone for acoustic drum is not a science but an art. I'm just going to suspend the gold standard for the basic equipment and if the drummer, you can go from there. There are many factors when the placement of the microphone as the room size, the dynamics of the player and the type of microphone.
Bombo: Right from the mouth of the guitar. If the head is not one, it could be the place. (Outside of the center)
Snare Drum: Put about an inch between the microphone-toms at an angle of 45 degrees. If you have a microphone basically the same (but no microphone at an angle of 45 degrees!)
Hi Hat: Put microphone pointing away from the kit on the left side of the post at an angle of 45 degrees about 3 "away from the Hall Lower the top plate to open the cap - you can not at the micro ..
Tom: Put a little away from the center at an angle of 80 degrees on the head about 3 ".
Floor Tom (s) apart in a 45 degree angle, 3 ", and just outside the center.
Overheads. About 2 and 1 / 2 "of the race Tip: Make closer or further away from the rooms more or less (respectively).
Back to hear a recording of the individual micro-test only to get an idea of how much has come to get bleed from other drums / tanks. Adjust to taste.
How to optimize your digital audio workstation
Her tone is the heart and soul of their study. Treat it gently, and do not smoke or drink. Too many things can and will happen. The last thing you want is someone spilled beer on him. The water would be nice, but the beer has a lot of sugar and other sticky stuff on them, so that tracks your location outside of the studio.
Turn off the computer and the sound of the microphone, and from the Internet, if you work on a computer. This ensures an uninterrupted and drag the unwanted noises in your recordings.
Disable the sleep power saving sleep mode, screen savers and other interruptions.
Run a test recording that the latency is configured properly and the audio drivers work properly. Adjust the recording level peak at -1 dB. The load test track processing and effects plug-ins. You leave a track, simply put. The goal here is to find the limits of computing power, so you know how many plugins you can run before a system crash.
If possible, use another method of monitoring below. This allows you to all of its features and accessories, transportation, and a mixer to unlock, so you can follow on your point of view without being able to concentrate all the signs on the road.
Select a folder from the default list first to save the file. Make sure that automatic storage is enabled, or is in the habit of hitting the control or command s for changes. Remember that you take notes as well. Tip: Some stores sell music from a laptop through the grades.
Facility name and all your songs accordingly, make sure everything is routed correctly and save it as a model with the same name as the project. If you need to start over, you are in front of you.
Mix:
Let me take a moment to explain the mix is different from mastering. Technical understanding and the application is described in this document distinguishes it from all other "independent" artists. The term connotes mix multiple tracks, where the domain refers to a two-channel stereo (left and right). As described in the examples of a pattern and organization of the file system tree, mixing and mastering are sequential. Mixing occurs before the mastering. Control is not at the same time as the mixture may occur. Mixing is the art of mixing different homogeneous instruments that also, or as a. That makes a guitar sound like a drum. These adjust the volume of each instrument, frequency, speed, effects, and other levels for which the focus is on the noise they make together. That's called synergy (1 +1 = 3). He creates something larger than themselves, which can not achieve alone. This means that we move forward with the mixture.
If you are automating their mix of feeling, for example, have different effects on or off, or become stronger over time, take to pursue an automation system.
Normalize the distance 1dB. You must be able to hear what you are working. Everything above zero dB (decibels) and cut the sound distortion. You want the cleanest possible signal.
If you put a space between the time a final instrument to the new shoots (Pause), select the white and the process to silence. This ensures that no noise or hiss or finger chair squeaks in the lane.
Equalization is the best way to reduce noise. Subtractive EQ is almost always better than the additive EQ. EQ was the first to go to correct sound. Example: If you work on a guitar track of simple things that you run a high pass filter, or simply cut out the high frequencies - infinity dB. Try to only increase the frequency range 2 or 3 dB. More than can cause problems. Tip: To give a voice through a low pass filter shelf EQ to -3 dB at 150 Hz, then add 3 dB gain over the entire route.
Limiter can be set to -1 dB supplements for your EQ and FX does not exceed this figure and distortion.
Compression can be tricky, but add with a little game with PUNCH'll you need. Compressors with four main controls: 1 Threshold: A lower value (in dB) means a stronger signal being processed and vice versa. 2nd Ratio: Sets the ratio of input / output for signals above the threshold. Example: A set of 5.1 means that a signal to leave on the threshold of 5 dB, the compressor 1 dB above the threshold. 3 and 4: Attack and Release: Attack and Release parameters determines the speed of the compressor acts on the incoming signal to maintain a natural curvature. Tip: If the compressor has a particular meter, the control that the threshold will dB on the meter and the gain from this. This level of signal compensation.
Noise Gate: This opening and closing to the sound or the noise produced by the blocks according to their thresholds. Think of it as a valve or hose bib. Gates are doing basically the same as the trick with the silence of a point above the other instruments. Can be used to draw the blood out of the snare mic, or use the equalization adjustments to achieve the same results.
Plugins:
There are thousands of plug-ins to do everything possible effects of the exchange rate. I use it for effects, spectrum analysis, the measurement of custom processors, and some on the field. Plug-ins for their audio application, some manual should be recognized, some are automatic. A small digression: RTAS for Mac-based systems are used. Here is a list of some of the professional audio modules, which I use:
IZotope Ozone, Advanced RX2, Nectar, Spectron, and the alloy. IZotope products are incredibly professional audio reinforcement and control of plug-ins. Demos are available Izotope
Blue Cat Audio: These are plugins per edit. They offer a free download is a demo which is awesome. Get it in Blue Cat Audio
Waves: This is an expensive but well worth it. I use their orbits of all time.
Mastering:
Like I said, the field is different from the mixture. Now you have registered, and the tracks of a stereo track, ready to dominate is mixed. Go ahead and standardize the file to -6 dB. This leaves a place to work. Do not worry. If you are ready to normalize the phase control -. 5 dB. Publication is how it sounds. If the space between where they are and they want to be in decibels.
In the scene of the domain you want to do things like a little pressure, a little EQ. They do not add too much of anything. I think it's like cooking with spices. A pinch of this and a pinch of that. There's really no way to describe exactly what to do in the area. You do not want to add stereo widening, or brightness. You need to do these things in the mixing phase. What we want is, all of her songs sound like they flow together. Do things like in the same "space", with a hint of reverb. They are also trying to do what is good on all devices, so you want to burn a reference CD on a stereo playback, a car stereo in your house. Make notes about the differences in sound quality and balance between them. Thereby ensure a good transfer.
Definition of a record company:
The next thing I think could do after the completion of your project is the creation of a record company. You can, by doing to the local government building and obtain a business license. You have rights and protection for any other kind of business. A sole proprietor gives the individual a little protection in a dispute, while a company is like an individual self, protect your personal assets against lawsuits.
Blue Cat Audio: These are plugins per edit. They offer a free download is a demo which is awesome. Get it in Blue Cat Audio
Waves: This is an expensive but well worth it. I use their orbits of all time.
Mastering:
Like I said, the field is different from the mixture. Now you have registered, and the tracks of a stereo track, ready to dominate is mixed. Go ahead and standardize the file to -6 dB. This leaves a place to work. Do not worry. If you are ready to normalize the phase control -. 5 dB. Publication is how it sounds. If the space between where they are and they want to be in decibels.
In the scene of the domain you want to do things like a little pressure, a little EQ. They do not add too much of anything. I think it's like cooking with spices. A pinch of this and a pinch of that. There's really no way to describe exactly what to do in the area. You do not want to add stereo widening, or brightness. You need to do these things in the mixing phase. What we want is, all of her songs sound like they flow together. Do things like in the same "space", with a hint of reverb. They are also trying to do what is good on all devices, so you want to burn a reference CD on a stereo playback, a car stereo in your house. Make notes about the differences in sound quality and balance between them. Thereby ensure a good transfer.
Definition of a record company:
The next thing I think could do after the completion of your project is the creation of a record company. You can, by doing to the local government building and obtain a business license. You have rights and protection for any other kind of business. A sole proprietor gives the individual a little protection in a dispute, while a company is like an individual self, protect your personal assets against lawsuits.
