Entries tagged with “studio recording” from O'Reilly Digital Media Blog

Please excuse this title, but I need to convey a point: sometimes, it is too easy to be “computer clean” when it would be better to be “humanly messy.” In this case, I’m talking about track automation, and the fact that most people depend on mouse-driven automation curves - even when they don’t do justice to the music.

Everyone has a song inside. On March 22 and 24, Apple Stores around the country will show you how to get it out of your head and into an MP3 you can submit to American Idol. Apple promises, You don't have to know how to play an instrument, write a song, or even sing in tune. With GarageBand and...

One of the hallmarks of amateur podcasts and screencasts is extraneous sound in the voiceover. Here are two DIY solutions for making quality recordings on the go and on the cheap.

In audio, as in the rest of life, the basics rule. For example, you can spend all the money in the world on great gear, but if your room is bad, you're just going to end up with a great recording of a bad room. On the other hand, if you improve the room, everything else will sound much better....

Recording voiceovers for podcasts can be tricky, because it's so easy to pick up background noise, slapback echo from your desktop, and room reverberation. Here's an ingenious solution hacked up by a professional voiceover artist. Harlan Hogan's voiceover porta-booth uses a collapsable storage crate lined with acoustic foam to isolate the microphone from its surroundings: The porta-booth set up in...