Bare walls, hardwood floors, and flat surfaces like large desktops and dressers reflect sound and send it right back to your mic. “To boost your quality, consider moving blankets or acoustic sound-dampening material. Treating a walk-in closet is cheap, great, and easy to do, especially if...
It’s commonly used in rock and folk music for its relaxed, optimistic feel. Dorian –Dorian is a minor mode with a natural sixth, making it feel brighter than Aeolian but still grounded in a minor tonality. This mode’s balanced sound works well in jazz and blues, where it conveys a...
What are Chord Progressions? How to Use Chords in MusicConsonance and dissonance Musical harmony is grounded in the idea that some notes create a pleasing effect when combined together while others sound harsh and discordant. Sounds that have a natural sense of musicality with one another are cal...
we're going to look into the roots of the noise that drives you crazy in the studio and onstage, and offer up some tips and techniques to track down the sources and reduce or eliminate them. So, the next time you get what you think is the perfect take from your...
Post-production is where you can add an intro and outro, fix audio errors, remove dead air time, and boring sections of the recording. You can turn a fairly mediocre recording into something much better with good editing skills. I’m not going to tell you exactly how to edit your audio...
Our job was to make it as joyous as possible, but also grounded in something. What were the discussions about the song before filming even began? If we cut it, what would be missing? You can't cut it because of the power of a young girl when she has he...
Like preamps or anything else that makes a sound, when it comes to choosing a DI, there are no hard and fast rules. Just as certain combinations of mic and preamp offer different sound qualities (not good or bad, just different), the same is true of DIs. In general, a passive DI ...
so you should use a connecting cable where the screen is connected at both ends — in other words, a conventional instrument lead. However, the casework of the unit might also be grounded to another unit via the rack metalwork, so try unbolting it from the rack to see if the hum situa...
yet are irrelevant to the rest of the grammatical system. The existence of autonomous morphology poses a serious challenge to any functionally-grounded theory of linguistics, since it is squarely maladaptive: its presence (as opposed to its absence) offers no functional advantage and can impose subs...
Every one of those shows was different in its own way, but the one common thread that runs through them all is that they wanted a real feeling to the show. We wanted the sound to feel grounded and real They didn’t want anything too sci-fi, too over the top. We wanted the sound ...