When customers visits your site, the best audio should be played. Vocals should be clear and full, music should be balanced and optimized for comfortable listening. There is 4 steps in the recording process, record,edit, mix and master.When recording, make sure audio does not clip, by following this simple technique, your digital recording will sound clear and more defined without distortion. If you make beats try not to record the the drums to loud, you are only in the recording process, save the loudness for the last step. If you record pod-casts, try not to record close to appliances or by a window, this can enter rumble or unwanted noise in your audio. Garbage signal in will produce a garbage signal out so watch the levels and try to record clean signal. Editing is the next step and a very important one! This is where you splice, trim, cut and clean audio tracks one by one. Depending on the level of tracks, this can be time consuming but
Using the scrub tool you can closely listen for errors and cut out what you don't want to be heard. Most audio software comes with tools that allow you to delete unwanted noise (Pro tools strip silence tool) by cutting out the noise.
Once you have successfully editing out unwanted noises, mixing is the fourth step. This is where you add creative effects to your guitars, vocals and drums. Adding compression to vocals and drums will keep the dynamics in check, leaving your mix sounding more balanced. Re-verbs and delays has an affect on the wetness and aliveness of guitars,vocals and drums, too much and they will sound thin and airy. The trick is to mix all tracks so that they can be heard clearly without clipping the master signal in red.
One way of doing this is by panning some instruments to the left or right speaker. Think about how a drum roll is played, try to emulate that feeling by panning toms and overheads to the left and right. Panning overdubs from vocals can give an awesome effect as well.
Once this is accomplished and rendered down to two track stereo (24 bit or 16 bit 441 wave file)
Mastering is the last creative step, this is where mastering engineers run your project through analyzing software to see what audio frequencies from bass, drums, guitars and vocals are conflicting. Most people record in their basements, or in bedrooms without proper acoustics. This can have an affect on the quality of your audio for several reasons; inferior speakers, audio frequencies bouncing of the wall and hot levels. Audio Mastering balances the stereo tracks so that instruments can play at optimum levels. Music, podcast and audio books needs mastering. For more information on mastering check out my link below, thank you for your time and consideration!
Using the scrub tool you can closely listen for errors and cut out what you don't want to be heard. Most audio software comes with tools that allow you to delete unwanted noise (Pro tools strip silence tool) by cutting out the noise.
Once you have successfully editing out unwanted noises, mixing is the fourth step. This is where you add creative effects to your guitars, vocals and drums. Adding compression to vocals and drums will keep the dynamics in check, leaving your mix sounding more balanced. Re-verbs and delays has an affect on the wetness and aliveness of guitars,vocals and drums, too much and they will sound thin and airy. The trick is to mix all tracks so that they can be heard clearly without clipping the master signal in red.
One way of doing this is by panning some instruments to the left or right speaker. Think about how a drum roll is played, try to emulate that feeling by panning toms and overheads to the left and right. Panning overdubs from vocals can give an awesome effect as well.
Once this is accomplished and rendered down to two track stereo (24 bit or 16 bit 441 wave file)
Mastering is the last creative step, this is where mastering engineers run your project through analyzing software to see what audio frequencies from bass, drums, guitars and vocals are conflicting. Most people record in their basements, or in bedrooms without proper acoustics. This can have an affect on the quality of your audio for several reasons; inferior speakers, audio frequencies bouncing of the wall and hot levels. Audio Mastering balances the stereo tracks so that instruments can play at optimum levels. Music, podcast and audio books needs mastering. For more information on mastering check out my link below, thank you for your time and consideration!
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