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Guitar Tone - Searching for the Ultimate Tone

Guitars are used on a good 90% of the music in the modern world. Since the early blues days, guitars, producers and enthusiasts alike have all been...

Preamps - At A Glance

Preamps have been an integral part of any studio (alongside microphones, of course!) since they first started. Throughout the ages, there has been...

321 Bus Compression Technique

Compression is a topic we’ve covered largely already, everything from types to how to use it within your mixes while recording with JZ Mics or any ...

Staying Creative In Quarantine: How To Create Simple Soundscapes for Composition

It’s understated a lot of the time, just how much music can have an emotional effect on the listener. Recently I’ve been working on a project with...

Acoustic Guitar Miking To Make It Sound Incredible

We’ve touched lightly on recording acoustic guitars and my two go-to techniques to achieve an amazing sounding acoustic guitar. Today, I want to focus on the lesser known trick of mine that I adopted from drum recording - specifically drum overheads...

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Carry On Being Creative In Isolation: How To Keep Yourself In A Loop And Stay In Business

The light looks to be appearing upon the horizon. Finally, a glimmer of light is shining to signal the end of lockdown is soon to come, but this do...

Making An Incredible Modern Rap Vocal

Eminem. Dr Dre. Joyner Lucas. Xxxtentacion. NF. All these names have (among a lot of things) a natural raw talent that will go down in the history ...

Carry on being Creative in Isolation: Addressing your Choices

Isolation has been an unwavering torment of dreary reruns on TV, old forgotten films, and rationing toilet paper. However, I’ve also managed to fin...

Carry on being Creative in Isolation: The Basics Of Making a Good Home Recording

For those who don’t know, I am the biggest Star Wars nerd on the planet. My obsession with the franchise is verging on unhealthy - but it has given me a vast amount of quotes and life lessons I've held close to me for about the last decade and a half. One of the most valued is a quote from Master Yoda, in the recent sequel series; ‘The greatest teacher, failure is’.

Posted in audio engineering, Guitar Tone, how to, Mastering, Mixing, Mixing Guitars, Modern Pop Music, recording, urm academy

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