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Production Tips: Recording the banjo

The banjo - this bizarre mutation of a guitar and a snare drum - can be a difficult instrument to record. The main challenge is to find a balance between the very attacky but thumpy sound audible near the center of the head, and the rest of the instrument’s sonic…Click on the title for more

Production Tips: Recording the banjo

Bands in the Studio: Recording Parquet Courts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPpihD340yE Jonathan Schenke's Gear: Deltalab Effectron "We have an AMS DMX Delay that is incredible... it’s the Martin Hannett/Joy Division delay, and completely unlike anything else I’ve heard." Jonathan Schenke, sound engineer and music lover, recorded the debut album of Brooklyn indie rock buzz band Parquet Courts, entitled 'Light Up Gold'…Click on the title for more

Bands in the Studio: Recording Parquet Courts

Bedroom Monitoring Basics

DIY musicians, who choose NOT to work on their music exclusively in the headphones, often make easily addressable mistakes when setting up their recording equipment: The most common blunder that I see in DIY project studios is monitors placed on a table and facing the recorder’s nipples (or belly). Near…Click on the title for more

Bedroom Monitoring Basics

Neve’s 1073 EQ Module for 500 Series

In a follow-up to the lunchbox version of its famous 1073 preamp, Ams-Neve has released the 1073LBEQ ($1,295): a 3-band mono equalizer based on the original Neve 1073 EQ circuit. It integrates seamlessly with the 1073LB preamp, resulting in a fully discrete, portable version of the 1073 mic pre/EQ used on…Click on the title for more

Neve’s 1073 EQ Module for 500 Series

Shure announces Beta 181

Coming this fall from Shure: A compact side-address condenser mic with interchangeable capsules. The Beta 181 will be the company’s first wired mic to have swappable polar pattern capsules (cardioid, supercaridioid, omnidirectional, bidirectional) that attach to the mic body with a locking ring for a secure connection. With it’s extremely…Click on the title for more

Shure announces Beta 181

ADK S-7 and A-6 Microphones

Over the course of two weeks I anticipated a delivery of two new ADK microphones to be used for a month of extensive testing. This review was done over the course of a month of tracking with various rock bands at Monsterland Recording Studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Everything was recorded…Click on the title for more

ADK S-7 and A-6 Microphones

CrashGuard drum mic shield by Primacoustic

Trying to tame excessive hi-hat or cymbal bleed from snare and tom tracks is a source of frustration for many engineers. Gating your snare track can take the life and air out the performance, and using EQ can kill the tone. Rather than modifying the track or using drum replacement…Click on the title for more

CrashGuard drum mic shield by Primacoustic

Choosing the right Recording Studio

To the aspiring rock-star who is blissfully unfamiliar with the recording studio, music is undoubtedly a lot of fun – until the idea of recording materializes. This natural transition from a general and “liquid” perception of a live sound to a “solid” and set in stone recording often proves to…Click on the title for more

Choosing the right Recording Studio