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…
Classical Music Recording on Location at Cleveland Institute of Music’s Mixon Hall Written by Henri Rapp The Good Looking Photos by Evan Prunty Classical Recording Goals If you listen to great hi-fi classical recordings, they are transparent, dynamic, natural, life -like. I wanted to capture the performance as if you were sitting right there…
Our Professional Studio and Industry Leading Audio and Video Services: Bad Racket is a professional recording studio based in Cleveland, Ohio. Our vision is to offer the quality and professionalism you would expect from a studio in a major music town, while welcoming artists and clients in a comfortable, inviting and warm environment where to…
Welcome to Bad Racket Studios: Cleveland’s Best Recording Studio Bad Racket Studios is a high tech recording, mixing, and music production facility based in downtown Cleveland, Ohio. We offer studio services to Northeast Ohio, the Cleveland area, and beyond to an international audience. We produce high quality content. Our cleveland ohio studios consist of 104…
Live from Bad Racket Recording Studio: Blanket Party Joe Yezbak and Gary McIntyre came by to do a Live Video at Bad Racket recording studio with some art-work backdrops. Check it out! We set up some blankets in the studio and things got a little weird! Joe Yezbak and Gary Ryan McIntyre stopped by…
Lets talk about vocal mixing and production. You might find more inexperienced engineers just slap a pre-set on it and call it a day, but theres a couple of ways you can make your songs more creative with the use of effects and vocal production. Effects can be genre specific, but I’ve tried to cover…
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…
Talking Recording Drums using DIY Gear with Tri-C Students: A summery of what we talked about with Tri-C Recording Arts & Technology Students during one of their workshops. The drum as an instrument There are a variety of techniques for recording drums, and we’ll talk about many of the main factors influencing the sound of of…
Recording Electric Guitar in the Studio or at Home When the electric guitar was invented in 1931, no-one knew it would grow into the staple of many types of music like it is today. Many innovations and techniques have come along the way. Learning how all of the different factors affect the sound an…