Audio Engineering articles from our Blog at Bad Racket Recording Studio in Cleveland, Ohio.
5 Ways to Spice up your Guitar Recordings in the Studio When it comes to the electric guitar, the difference between a live recording sound, and a polished studio sound, is often in the production and overdubs. This informative article about the electric guitar recording process is meant to explore several areas of…
How to Record Drums: Recording a Full Drum Kit: Kick Drum, Snare, Rack toms or Floor Toms and Cymbals –Henri Rapp – Bad Racket Recording Studio How you record a drum has a big influence on how it will sound. From the drum itself, to the type of head, mic placement, and type of…
Getting Creative at Bad Racket Recording Studios in Cleveland Ohio Getting creative at Bad Racket is more than doing what you do. It means making the tough decisions, and getting down to the nitty gritty and fun part of making records. How can you be more creative in your recordings? It’s a tough…
How to Design a Soundproof room Seal up all the cracks and holes that can allow air transfer in the space. This might include small holes, gaps in between pipes and air ducts, electrical boxes, or gaps under doors and windows. Latex caulk is a good filler, as well as drywall compound. Heavy duty…
DIY 500 Series Mic Preamp Construction (High Quality Microphone Pre) For anyone who doesn’t know, 500 series is a type of rack-mount outboard gear for studio use, that offers a semi-universal slot for all types of preamps, compressors, equalizers, with many different manufactures offering modules in nearly the same size and format. If you…
Best Music Recording Software 2017 Just a little article about DAWs or Digital recording software options for 2017. It used to be “so do you use Pro Tools” now there are a whole host of different Digital Audio Workstations or DAWs to choose from. Pro Tools 12 Pro Tools used to be the only…
Free High Hat Sample WAV Download High Hat Samples Samples from Bad Racket Recording Studio Cleveland Ohio Feel free to use these free high hat samples for whatever you want. Please link to badracket.com from the release page and credit us if you use them please! The Recording Setup We used Michael Joly Engineering Modified…
8+ Tips for Bands Getting Ready to Record 1. Not to be a jerk but…Practice. Practice and the player is the single biggest variable to your recording performance. Practice makes perfect, and a ton of editing or a million takes all chopped up might make something passable, but it’s not going to be as good…
Free TCI Drum Samples for Slate Trigger & WAVs of Gretsch Kick Drum Bad Racket is giving away free samples made by Henri Rapp of our 22” Gretsch birch kick drum in WAV and Slate Trigger Samples (TCI Format) with 8 variances per each of the 5 velocities, and 4 microphones. When recording this…
8+ Tips for Drummers Preparing To Record in the Studio A good 80% how drums turn out in a recording comes down to the drummer, their technique, and how well maintained their drum kit is. Being well prepared, and knowing how to maximize the quality within the limitations of recording can make…