Audio Engineering articles from our Blog at Bad Racket Recording Studio in Cleveland, Ohio.
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…
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…
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…
Intro to Audio Engineering for Musicians and Songwriters Audio Engineering 101 Everything in the studio starts and ends with the musician. From the performance, to hopefully collecting a check. Musicians rely on the principles of audio engineering to record sound from analog to digital. The gear can make a big difference too The music…
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…
Music creation can be easy and fun with new technology like samples, koops and different music creation software like Pro Tools, Logic, Reaper, Reason, Ableton, Garageband, Studio One, Etc. Loops in the Studio Recording and music making is no longer a process of creating sounds from scratch with new technology like loops and flexible licencing…
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…
Mixing and Mastering in the Recording Studio: Essentials and Fundamentals of Music Mixing, Mastering, and Music Production Mixing and Mastering is an art form, and while many of these basic ideas may be matters of opinion, many are time tested methods used on tons of great sounding and critically acclaimed work. They aren’t a comprehensive…