"Killer Recording Tips" by Sound On Sound editor Paul White

[64Guitars]

Some good recording tips in this article:

http://www.roland.co.uk/blog/killer-recording-tips

[Greeny (No longer active)]

Very cool tips!

[IanR]

Thanks for the link.  I'll enjoy reading this.

[kenny mac]

I enjoyed this,good tips all round,some that I will be applying and doing a bit of experimenting with.

[Auroran]

Nice article and well written. I particularly liked what he said about synths, they take up a lot of real estate. One thing I do is to pull in the panning, since a lot of patches are too wide out of the box to fit  in a mix. Pianos, drums etc are usually too wide. I use Waves S-1 imager on half of my synth tracks, it's a great tool for panning and imaging. I'd rather do that then bounce them to mono, since they can still have a bit of imaging that way.

Also, I have a setting for Autotune that I'd like to share with the forum. For novice users, turn the controls very carefully until they are in the "off" position. For advanced users, try to uninstall the program. Autotune is evil, it's the steroids of the music biz.

[Farrell Jackson]

A great refresher 64, thanks for posting the link! I use most of these techniques in one form or another. The author is right on when he suggest using the hi/lo pass filters on individual tracks to rid the mix of unwanted EQ build ups that will either muddy or make the mix shrill sounding. Although I don't use filters as much as I used to, now I  just pull the EQ frequencies down manually but the result is the same. He also makes a good point that it doesn't matter how the individual track sounds when solo'ed out (usually thin) , it matters how it sounds and fits in the mix. Good article!

Farrell

[Auroran]

The author is right on when he suggest using the hi/lo pass filters on individual tracks to rid the mix of unwanted EQ build ups that will either muddy or make the mix shrill sounding. Although I don't use filters as much as I used to, now I  just pull the EQ frequencies down manually but the result is the same.

I've been doing a lot of this as well. It's surprising how much "noise" is down in the low frequencies.

[IanR]

Here is the key to Aladdin's cave:

http://www.soundonsound.com/articles/Technique.php

There's lots of great stuff here.

Ian