- Why Is Audio Mastering Important?
If you have read my last article, “What does an audio engineer do when mastering music?”, you already know what is involved in the professional mastering process. To re-cap what that article said to all who haven’t read it, the mastering process adds polish to your songs and makes them sonically cohesive. - What Software Should I Use to Create My CD or DVD Artwork?
After recording your album, having it mastered and pressed, you head over to your disc duplication facility’s website to place your order. - What Is a Red Book Standard Audio CD?
When reading through the terms and conditions at your favorite CD and DVD duplication facility’s website, you come across a term you aren’t familiar with. - What is a CD-R and How Does it Differ From a CD?
We all know what a CD is, we use it to play music in our cars and home stereos. By definition it is an optical disc used to store digital data, usually 80 or 120mm in diameter. It was introduced in 1982 and is now the standard playback format for commercial audio recordings. - What do you Need to Start a CD Duplication Project?
While at your local record store, browsing for CDs, you notice how slick and professionally manufactured your favorite artist’s CDs look. This may be kind of disheartening if your band’s last attempt at a demo was burned on your home computer and labeled with a black felt tip marker. Why not step it up and have your next recording manufactured professionally? There are numerous duplication and replication labs out there that are very affordable. The process is very simple, requiring only a couple of things from you. What do you need to start your CD duplication project? - Tracker Software - The Beginning of Software Music Sequencers
Tracker is the generic term for a class of software music sequencers which, in their purest form, allow the user to arrange sound samples on a timeline across several mono channels. - Total HD – "Super Disc" An Update On The Battle Between Blu-ray and HD-DVD
Alright, we’ve all been following the heated battle between the new Blu-ray and HD-DVD technologies. If you’d like a little refresher on what’s conspired so far, please refer to my article titled “New CD and DVD Technology – Blu-Ray and HD-DVD”. This will run you through how each disc type functions, why they’re better than normal DVD media, and the differences between the two types. - The History of the MP3 File Format
If you have listened to music on your computer, then there's no doubt that you have come into contact with an MP3 file or two. Most people do not know much about MP3s besides that they are files used to store music data on. Basically that's all they are, a way to store audio data on a computer. Well, let me tell you, MP3s are that, but there's a bit more to them. - Setting Up Your Own Internet Radio Station
Radio has been lagging for some years now, seeming to be a dinosaur compared to streaming internet radio, podcasting, XM satellite radio, and the plethora of other technologies that have reared their heads in the past 10 years. - Setting Up Your Own Internet Radio Station
Radio has been lagging for some years now, seeming to be a dinosaur compared to streaming internet radio, podcasting, XM satellite radio, and the plethora of other technologies that have reared their heads in the past 10 years. One of these new technologies is basically the same thing as old-school AM/FM radio, and that is internet radio. - Preparing Your Audio Master For CD Duplication Or Replication
When setting up your CD duplication or replication project, you obviously know that you must provide the duplication house with a master copy of your CD audio to duplicate from. This should be a carefully burned copy of your final, edited and mastered audio recording. Since this master copy is going to be used as a blueprint for all your CDs, it is the most important piece of the pie. - Podcasting – What Is It And How Can You Benefit From It?
Traditional radio is slowly becoming obsolete as technology in modern times grows in leaps and bounds. We last discussed internet radio, which is basically audio files streamed over the internet to whomever chooses to listen to it. And in this article we’ll be discussing podcasting. Which is very similar to internet radio, yet has its differences. Basically it is an updated version of streaming internet radio, and then some. - New CD and DVD Technology -- Blu-Ray and HD-DVD
The compact disc has been around since 1978, developed by Phillips and Sony. The reason it was developed was to take over for the Laserdisc as the industry standard digital audio disc. Since its invention, we have seen many updates on the compact disc technology. The most recent being the CD-R and DVD discs. With the CD-R, you can now burn your own discs at home, and then modify those discs at a later date. DVD technology allows us to record video onto a disc, where we used to only be able to record audio and data. As time rolls by, and the disc industry advances, we are presented with new forms of these technologies. - Musicians and Copyrights – What You Need To Know
As musicians and songwriters, we’ve all wondered what it takes to protect our creative output from theft or plagiarism - Microphones for Musicians – Laser and Other
If you have been following my Microphones 101 series of articles, you would have read about 4 of the most important microphone types. - Microphones for Musicians – Dynamic and Condenser
If you are a recording engineer, you probably already know everything there is to know about microphones. But if you are a musician who is recording from home, you might not. When it comes to recording audio, microphones are the most important piece of equipment you’ll purchase. Most experts recommend that your main microphone should cost at least 30% of the recorder you’re using. And even then, the cheapest microphone you will want to use will be at least $100.00. - How Do I Record And Create MP3s From Home?
There used to be no substitution for a good recording job done in a professional recording studio. Now with the rising popularity of digital PC recording and the low cost of recording software, many people are re-thinking the idea of home recording. - How Can Online Communities Benefit Musicians?
With the rise of sites like Myspace.com, SectionZ.com, and http://www.DFJams.com, musicians have never had it better on the internet. - Holographic Data Storage – The Next Generation
All data storage in modern times are done on disc, be it a computer hard drive or a CD-R disc. - File Sharing Ethics
Ever since the invention of the internet, people have used it to share files. Be it music, movies, video games, and other copyrighted and non-copyrighted electronic material. This has raised some interesting ethical issues. - DVD Editing and Authoring – A How-To Guide
Whether you're a big time video producer, or if you're just a normal person videotaping your child's first birthday. You're going to need to get that video footage off of the camera, edit it, and then put it onto a disc for future viewing. You might just want to run off a couple copies from your home computer, or you might be getting your DVD footage ready to be duplicated by a large duplication house. Either way, and every way in between, you're going to need to follow the same couple of steps. - DIY Music Video – Do It Yourself!
With the falling price of digital video cameras and the rise of PC video editing software, producing your own music video is definitely something most every musician can afford to do these days. - CD Burning – The Differences Between Track-at-once and Disc-at-once
All of us who own a personal computer have burned at least a CD or two in our days. Being able to download music and create your own mix CDs has been one of my favorite features since the beginning. Software such as iTunes and Nero has made this task even easier, pretty much doing all the work for us. - Audio File Formats Explained – For Computer Savvy Musicians
Welcome to Audio File Formats 101! If you’ve used a computer to listen to music you probably have had some experience dealing with MP3 and WAV files before. And if you have spent a bit of time on the computer recording or editing audio, you’ve probably dealt with many of the other audio file formats. Such as AIFF, WMA, OGG, etc. What’s the deal with all these different forms of digital audio? - Audio Effects-Noise Gate & Flange
Continuing the audio effects series, again, we all know of audio effects and what they generally are supposed to do. They are used to manipulate audio in ways that are not available with traditional playing and recording techniques. If you’re like me, and enjoy dabbling in audio production, you’re probably familiar with all the basic effects and maybe some other types. Noise gate will be one of the topics of discussion today. - Audio Effects – Compression and Ring Modulation
Moving on down the line, today we continue our series on audio effects and editing tools. In the past few articles we've such effects as reverb, flange, delay, and noise gate. If you enjoy dabbling in audio production, you're going to enjoy today's article. - Audio Effects - Vocoder and Auto-Tune
Alright, thanks for coming back for my next installment in this article series concerning audio effects. In the past few weeks we have covered quite a few commonly used effects, such as reverb, delay, flange, and compression. These effects all have wide scopes of usage, and are probably used on a daily basis in most modern recording studios, on a wide range of different musical styles. We were discussing the basic functionality of each effect, leaving you to decide if and how you would end up using it in your own production process. - Audio Effects - Phase Shifting and Chorus
Audio effects! Is there anything they can't do? We're continuing on with this series, this article being part 4 in the series. I was thinking about the best way to abstractly describe the function and importance of audio effects and knowing your effects well. This is what I came up with. Your studio is basically your tool box, - A Guide To VST Plugins
If you have been recording or producing music via a computer, you may have heard the term VST. What is VST and how does it figure in to playing, recording, and editing music?
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