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The Home Recording Guide To Mixing
Mixing is where all the efforts of recording come together. If you don’t know what you’re doing when it comes time to mix, even well recorded tracks can end up muddy and unintelligible. AudioTUTS, a...
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Understanding Phase In Your Recordings
One of the things that gives professionals an advantage over those who record at home is a thorough understanding of how sound works and where problems are likely to arise. The folks over at AudioTUTS,...
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What Is A Preamplifier?
One question that many beginner recordists is about preamplifiers, what they do, and when you need them. AudioTUTS has just posted an excerpt from The Encyclopedia of Home Recording that answers all...
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Kindle Edition Available Now
Those of you with Kindles, or who like to use the Kindle app to read books on your home computer will be happy to know that The Encyclopedia of Home Recording is now available as a Kindle ebook. This...
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The Role Of Acoustics In Your Recordings
A major factor in the quality of a sound recording, though one often overlooked by home studio users, is the acoustics of the room the recording is being made in. Understanding acoustics and how to...
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How An Auxiliary Send Works
The good folks over at AudioTUTs have posted another expert from The Encyclopedia of Home Recording! Today they’ve posted the Auxiliary Send entry. Check out the entry here to learn about how to use...
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How To Use Delay In Home Recording
Most home recordists are familiar with using delay effects, but the really good recording engineers know how to use delay subtly as a rhythmic device with the tempo of the song, and can use it to...
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Free Track Sheet Download (pdf) For The Home Recording Studio
Whether you’re recording at home or professionally, using a track sheet is a great way to keep track of your sessions and keep them organized. It’s also extremely useful when you want to reproduce a...
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How To Keep Your Sessions Organized
AudioTuts has just posted a new article from the author of The Encyclopedia of Home Recording. A set of tips on how to keep organized in the recording studio to make your recording sessions go...
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Announcing HowToMic.com
We’re proud to announce the launch of HowToMic.com, a website that shares excerpts from the Microphone Placement Guide of the Encyclopedia of Home Recording. It’s a great place to find tips on...
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Free Recording Workshop: Getting Started in the Home Studio
Those in the Greater Victoria, BC area may be interested in an upcoming free workshop that I will be teaching as part of Long & McQuade’s L&M University this March. Topics will include choosing...
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Critical Listening Exercise on Shure’s Blog
Shure Microphones’ blog has just re-run a critical listening exercise post that I wrote for AudioTUTS a while back. This is a great exercise to train your ear so you can create better mixes. It...
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Article: Setting Up a Home Studio
The folks over at Long & McQuade Musical Instruments asked me to write an article for this year’s Gear Guide about how to set up a home recording studio. The guide is now available in their stores,...
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Free Recording Workshop: Getting Started in the Home Studio
Those in the Greater Victoria, BC area may be interested in an upcoming free workshop that I will be teaching as part of Long & McQuade’s L&M University this March. Topics will include choosing...
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Encyclopedia of Home Recording Gets a New Cover
Same book, new look. Just a quick post to announce the new cover for the Encyclopedia of Home Recording. So now it will look even nicer in your home studio! Share
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Howtomic.com Gets a Facelift
The Encyclopedia of Home Recording sponsors a microphone placement website called howtomic.com, and it’s just undergone a redesign. Pop on over and check it out. You’ll find the following helpful...
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Encyclopedia of Home Recording Now Available For iBooks
I’m happy to announce that you can now get this book on iBooks. So, if an iPad is already part of your home studio setup then this becomes an even handier reference! Check it out here: The Encyclopedia...
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Recording Fundamentals Class 2014
I will be teaching a class called Recording Fundamentals this fall at the Long & McQuade Music Lesson Centre here in Victoria. It’s a 6-week class (one night a week) that covers the fundamental...
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The Great British Recording Studios
One of the diagrams from The Encyclopedia of Home Recording can be found in the newly released book The Great British Recording Studios by Howard Massey. The book looks gorgeous and should be a really...
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