Workers’ Rights In The Studio
Up‑and‑coming engineers and producers deserve protection from exploitation, discrimination and sexual harassment.
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Up‑and‑coming engineers and producers deserve protection from exploitation, discrimination and sexual harassment.
Suffering from mysterious hums and buzzes in your studio? This down‑to‑earth explanation will help you identify and solve the problems — or hopefully avoid them in the first place!
An image in Genelec’s GLM manual suggests placing a subwoofer in a position to send the direct sound waves right through the underside of the mixing desk. Is it perhaps not an obstruction issue because the sub‑80Hz frequencies aren’t so directional?
Does sending phantom power to a dynamic microphone cause any problems or affect the signal?
Kali Audio, based in Burbank, California, was founded at the start of 2018 by some former employees of nearby industry giant...
In celebration of the 75th anniversary of the AES, President Bruce Olson talks to Hugh Robjohns about their history, their role in developing standards across the audio industry and their entrance requirements for new members.
When our job involves a lot of sitting down, it’s up to us to inject some movement into our lives.
As electret condenser mics have internal preamps, do non‑electret condensers also have built‑in preamps?
When using a mono-making plug-in, is there a range of transition that sees stereo signals gradually taper into mono?
Doug Rogers is President of EastWest, the Soundsonline website and owner of EastWest Studios. Here he chats to Sam Inglis about what it takes to develop their award-winning sample library releases.
If music be the food of love, shouldn’t we eat better while we’re making it?
Here are some of our favourite function generators that will capably augment your patches, all weighing in at well under £200.
Recently I had to record a Japanese taiko drum ensemble, but I got a fair bit of distortion even though my recording levels never reached 0dBFS. Why was I getting this distortion/compression?
What causes microphone feedback and what are the best ways to deal with it?
Many of us dream of setting up a recording studio. But where do you start — and what’s it really like to run one as a commercial business today?
The studio should be a place of calm, but it’s hard to relax when your financial security and self‑worth are constantly on the line.
What’s the best technique, or combination of methods, for refreshing the high end when pitching-down samples?
I have a 500‑series setup which includes some mic preamps that I’d like to wire up to a jack patchbay, is it possible to block phantom power?
Are you forever having to untangle your mic leads? Sandwich bags might just be the answer...
Ricky Damian is a Grammy Award-winning Engineer/Producer who’s worked with artists such as Mark Ronson, Lady Gaga, Sam Smith, Adele, Dua Lipa, Yebba, Jorja Smith and Sampha.