News5 Showcases Local Artist Brit Fox. Her Song Frosty was recorded at Bad racket and Featured in the Oscar winning film ANORA https://www.news5cleveland.com/news/local-news/im-pinching-myself-cleveland-area-rappers-music-featured-in-oscar-winning-film-anora
Understanding Signal Flow in the Recording Studio Signal Flow is almost like a map of the sound traveling through the setup almost like a river or pipe flowing. Signal flow is the term we use to describe how the sound flows through the chain of devices. Signal flow is all the gear and cords…
What are dB and LUFS? Loudness for Mixing and Mastering Audio What are LUFS? If you’ve landed here there is a good chance you already have an idea it is a scale of loudness, or volume. LUFS have become an important unit of measurement to compare audio content to compare loudness. LUFS stands for…
Creating Your Next Hit Song at Bad Racket with Engineer and Music Producer Creating your first song together with me the producer can be fun. My name is James Kananen, I’m a producer and songwriter, and artist with a hands on approach, I’ve written and produced tracks for countless artists, some you probably have heard…
Writing, Recording, Mixing, and Mastering a Song from Scratch Writing a great song can be fun. You might think you can easily write a great song and make a million topping the billboard charts, but you’d be wrong. It takes a lot of effort, trial and error, and time and money to make a…
This article is going to outline the bare essentials for what you need to record at home. Recording at home can mean doing the best you can with a less than ideal environment, but its important to do everything you can to reduce environmental noise. This means air conditioning, heat, fans, or other mechanical noises…
Free ACX Validation Plugin: Checking File Specifications Audio Books in Audacity Getting Audiobooks to pass ACX standards for amazon and Audible can be tricky without this automated checker tool. Recently I stumbled uponthis excellent article showing how to use a plugin in Audacity to validate files for ACX Audible standards before you submit, or…
Monoculture – Let the Seasons Breathe (Live From Bad Racket) Check out this song from Monoculture’s album Blueprint for Dysfunction. Performed Live at Bad Racket Recording Studio in Cleveland, Ohio. https://open.spotify.com/album/2U324O… https://www.monocultureband.com/ Filmed by: Black Valve Media Edited by: Evan Prunty https://blackvalvemedia.com
There are a few ways to transfer files. What’s important is use whatever you are most comfortable with. If its google drive, or dropbox use that. We recommend wetransfer.com or whatever is clever. Wetransfer is the fastest with the least BS, but we frequently use cloud service systems from companies like IBM, Microsoft, and Amazon.…
The Musicians Guide to Making Great Recordings Audio Interfaces, Analog to Digital, and other Recording Gear Audio Interface is the standard modern way of recording. While other options like tape machines do exist, the cost and availability of such systems is growing more and more expensive. Unless you have a ton of money or some…