Congratulations! You’ve decided that you want to take your music to the next level so you’ve hired a mixing engineer or producer. You’ve discussed how you want your track to sound, negotiated fees and worked out what particular brand of fairy dust the engineer is going to use… all you’ve got to do now is […]
Author Archives: Wij Productions
Capturing the Sound of a Space
I’ve been interested in the use of convolution reverbs for a while, and was particularly inspired listening to this interview with Nikolay Georgiev by Lij Shaw for his brilliant Recording Studio Rockstars podcast series. During the interview Nikolay explains how he has fine-tuned his process of capturing the acoustics of a space using a mobile […]
Tracking Vocal Groups Without Headphones
I’ve had the pleasure of working with a few vocal groups recently and have been refining the process of capturing a choir singing along to a backing track. Good monitoring is essential for vocalists to pitch and ideally in the studio we can give everyone headphones, but not many places can cater for a large […]
Modifying the Rode K2 mic Part 1: Tube Change
Alter the tonality of this already nice mic with a simple tube change
AKG C414B Hum problems
I thought I’d write a quick post on this in case some of you experience a similar problem, it may save you hassle and expense. I have a pair of AKG C414B mics, they are real workhorses and as the cliche goes, the studio Swiss army knife. On top of that they are solidly built […]
Flying mics and ominous cymbals
I recently read an article on the flying mic technique – not sure where, may have been TapeOp – but being a fan of the more esoteric side of recording, I thought I have to try that out. The idea is simple, you suspend a mic from a pulley via a length of string which […]
“Boutique” DI box on a budget
I’ve been meaning to build a passive DI box for sometime, I have a couple of active ones and it’s nice to have an alternative. Also, I recently bought a Korg Minilogue and figured a good quality passive DI would be a good match. Passive DI’s are very simple, they are essentially a step down transformer […]
EQ Ear Training using Max For Live
I love Max for Live, it’s DIY audio in the software domain and it makes trying out ideas and building new audio tools extremely easy. I built this device to help improve your ability to judge and apply EQ, you will of course need Ableton Live and Max For Live to be able to use it, you […]
Piano Re-Amping
I had the idea of re-amping the piano by passing the sampled piano track back through a speaker playing into the body of the upright piano I have at home, then micing the piano to get a new piano track.
Comparing Convertors
I regularly review music gear for Sonic State, it’s an interesting job as I have to look in detail at a particular piece of hardware or software. Often when you are just using a piece of kit, you don’t get time to delve into all the subtleties of it and learn all its’ full capabilities. I […]
