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…
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2021 From Everyone At Bad Racket Recording Studio, Cleveland, OH Not gonna lie. It’s been a rough year. It seems like 5 years worth of events have occured in less than a years time, but we’re really hoping for the good times to come back where we can enjoy more of…
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…
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…
A guitar recording will sound different almost anything you do. From instrument setup, to the equipment and how its used, to how the audio is mixed and mastered in the track will affect how the sound is perceived by the listener. Getting the right sounds in the Studio Getting sounds right at the source…
Musicians and beginner songwriters can benefit a lot from some basic music theory. In today’s increasingly competitive world, music theory is the difference from successful rehearsals, performances, and recording studio sessions for composers. Use music theory to drive your creative performance. You can develop using time tested techniques, step by step, using the same terminology…