Archive for January, 2008

Weird Pro Tools Error # 2

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Pro Tools Error 2

Try it at home!

Alt/option-Shift-L

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Indy Mogul – DIY film making

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008

Indy Mogul

Indy Mogul is a cool site dedicated to making cheap movies. The backyard FX video podcast series shows how to add cheap gore to your low budget productions, like ripping a heart out, decapitation, and tearing off limbs. Theres also videos on stop motion animation, lighting, and more!

Maybe best of all, something I’ve been searching for: Encoding for YouTube

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Rode University

Monday, January 28th, 2008

Rode microphones has launched Rode University, an educational site.

Rode University

Well really its a giant ad for Rode mics, but you do actually learn about the mics and why you would use any one of them for each instrument. They have a decent explanation of polar patterns, pads, and filters in the tech tips video

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Mixing – The 12-Step Program By Craig Anderton

Friday, January 25th, 2008

From Musician’s Friend’s tech tips page

TECH TIP: Mixing – The 12-Step Program

When it’s time to mix a recording, you need a strategy

By Craig Anderton

Mixing is not only an art, it’s the crucial step that turns a collection of tracks into a finished piece of music. A good mix can bring out the best in your music—it spotlights a composition’s most important elements, adds a few surprises to excite the listener, and sounds good on anything from a transistor radio to an audiophile’s dream setup.

In theory, mixing should be easy: you just adjust the knobs until everything sounds great. But this doesn’t happen by accident. Mixing is as difficult to master………

Read the rest of the article at Musician’s Friend

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EQTV – Videos from EQ Magazine Online

Monday, January 21st, 2008

At www.eqmag.tv there are tutorials, gear reviews, studio tours and much more.

EQTV

I recommend the Guitar miking 101, the DIY Cable making tutorial and the piano miking.

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