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At CCM we record a lot of band projects and placement of the vocals is one of the most critical processes in creating a final mix.

Quick Tip with Aux Busing: Good organization in your song files is essential when creating complex mixes with numerous routings. Forming consistent, repetitious habits is the key here to streamline your efficiencies in all the mixing work you do. For example,

Continuing from the end of my last post about creating a “macro” lead track, it’s time to stack the back-up vocals.

When recording a full band or large ensemble of any style one of the most critical processes that needs to be handled with care is the stereo or spatial imaging done while in mix mode. So, youve just finished your recording session, things went well and youve got possibly many many trax to work with […]

Continuing from my last post about stacking vocals, it is now time to process them with compression.

Sometimes when I am doing positive EQing - boosting frequencies - I like to locate my boosted frequencies individually, or rather, independently of each other. By this I mean that I will EQ one band to taste, and then I will bypass the finished band to continue onto the next additive band, etc. […]

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Audio engineering utilizes an array of specialized equipment and to get professional results you need to fully understand the gear you are using when recording. MIcrophones in particular each have unique properties that make it especially important to make wise choices when choosing what mic to use for different instruments. Each microphone has is own […]

Greetings recording community and gear junkies alike. Last time we started talking about how the NY style of compression works and talked about the process of re-recording a stereo drum track and making sure that it is in phase with the original track. So, now that we have a duplicate track set up in phase […]

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