Skills

Jan
14
D8 Skills #58 | Headphone Mixes with Patch Bay

D8 Skills #58 | Headphone Mixes with Patch Bay

Today, we learned how to set up multiple headphone mixes using the auxiliary sends on the mixing desk, and patch
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Jan
13
D8 Skills #56 | Mix Practise

D8 Skills #56 | Mix Practise

I have lots of experience mixing 'in the box' music, but not much with recordings of real instruments.
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Jan
07
D8 Skills #53 | Practising with Patch Bay

D8 Skills #53 | Practising with Patch Bay

Today, I came into the studio to practise my skills using the patch bay, with the intention of becoming swift
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Nov
26
D8 Skills #39 | Learning about Patch Bays

D8 Skills #39 | Learning about Patch Bays

Today, we learned about the 4 patch bay configurations: Open: Open shows that signals flow straight through the bay with
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Nov
13
D8 Skills #32 | Researching Piano Recording Techniques Ready for Monday

D8 Skills #32 | Researching Piano Recording Techniques Ready for Monday

Most of my team and I have agreed to, as well as come in on Monday to record vocals for
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Nov
05
D8 Skills #25 | Recreating Vocal Technique from Heroes, David Bowie

D8 Skills #25 | Recreating Vocal Technique from Heroes, David Bowie

'Heroes' was recorded at Hansa Studio by the Wall, Berlin. Producer Visconti devised a 'multi-latch' technique
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Nov
04
D8 Skills #24 & D9 | Recording Acoustic Guitar

D8 Skills #24 & D9 | Recording Acoustic Guitar

Today, we recorded an acoutic guitar. We used a Neumann U-87 large-diaphragm condenser microphone, along with a pair of AKG
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Oct
27
D8 Skills #21 | Researching Vocal Recording Techniques

D8 Skills #21 | Researching Vocal Recording Techniques

Today, I watched this great video where a recording engineer explains the most common problems that occur when vocals are
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Oct
21
D8 Skills #19 | New Amp Miking Technique

D8 Skills #19 | New Amp Miking Technique

Today, we learned a new technique for miking a guitar amp. It consists of a Shure SM57 on-axis pointing toward
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