Recording and Mixing at Bad Racket Recording Studio Bad Racket is a recording and listening space built to be a good listening environment free from distractions. We encourage you to turn off your phone, wear a nice comfortable pair of your own headphones, and be prepared to take notes, or focus on the next few…
Electrical and Lighting Considerations when Building or Setting up a Recording Studio TL; DR: Fluorescent bad, dimmer questionable, lamp good. Grounded AC power: Also good 🙂 All studios often begin as a chaotic tangle of wires behind a desk filled with various items. Somehow, everything gets plugged into a power strip. Eventually, you may run…
WAV or AIFF vs MP3 or M4A: Which audio file format is best? Quick answer… which is best to use to store audio data? WAV AIFF MP3 or M4A? Answer: WAV is usually best quality and most common for studio recordings and audio samples. MP3 is suitable for emails, but m4a is the…
How to Export and Consolidate Tracks from Reaper, Logic, Pro Tools, Ableton ,or Garageband for use in the Recording Studio Export / Consolidate Tracks from Pro Tools Highlight all the regions or use CTRL A to select all regions along with any space left at the beginning of the tracks. You should have every region selected…
Speaker Repair Diagnosis and Troubleshooting Speaker buggered? Is it not making any sound? Making a funny noise? Speaker problems can be a variety of issues, and repair and maintenance is usually the audio engineer’s responsibility. Check it out! Problem: Speaker Not making any noise First check obvious problems, like wires not being plugged in…
An informative article about mixing and audio engineering term Bus Tracks Many DAWs like Pro Tools, Logic Reason or Garageband feature mix busses, aux tracks, group tracks. All of which essentially serve the same purpose, but what is a mix bus track anyway? What is a Bus track in Mixing? A bus track is like…
The Venus Flytraps – X-Ray Vision (Live From Bad Racket) The Venus Flytraps stopped by Bad Racket Recording Studio to do a live version of their song X-Ray Vision! Kelly Venus – Guitar Vocals Aubrey O’Blivion – Bass Vondrella Raygun – Vocals Mike Hood – Drums Contact: venusflytrapsband at gmail https://thevenusflytraps.bandcamp.com/ Filmed by:…
Beasts Without Biomes – Goodbye to Summertime (Live From Bad Racket) Now available on Apple iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/say-goodbye-to-summertime/1382354005 On a cold snowy day in Cleveland, we recorded an album for Beasts with out Biomes. Evan and Hunter came by and shot this sick video for a song called Goodbye to Summertime live from our Recording Studio…
Recording Mixing and Mastering in Pro Tools 12 Getting Started Get the online subscription for Pro tools. Step 1: Open Pro Tools 12 Step 2 Create a Track Set Track input to Microphone Input Enable Record Change Click Track or Import Track Double Click to Change the Name of the Track Manage Takes Mixing Mastering…
Educational Recording Studio Internship Alternative Anyone knows the paid version is always better than the free version. Let us work for YOU with an educational experience you won’t get in a classroom. Of course your educational institution is going to say you’ll be successful when you graduate, but the reality is almost none of the…