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These guides are meant to help the beginning home recorder.
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» Microphones Don't Make THAT Much Difference
By Brandon Drury | Published 06/19/2006 | Getting Started | Rating:

Beginning home recording guys are always looking for explanations as to why their recordings don't sound like their favorite recordings. For whatever reason, people usually blame their gear first. This article will discuss why it's probably not your microphones fault for your recording problems.

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» Recording School? The Right Career Move?
By Brandon Drury | Published 01/18/2006 | Getting Started | Rating:
 I know several fairly intelligent people who ran off to recording school and now pay me to record them. I'm not knocking these guys at all. In fact, I sometimes feel a bit upset as to how they were blinded by the fancy marketing ads and couldn't see what was in head of them.
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» Microphones Every Recording Engineer Should Own
By Brandon Drury | Published 01/5/2006 | Getting Started | Rating:
 If your craft is music recording, owning the right microphones is essential. The right mic for the job will usually sound great and the wrong mic for the job will sound terrible. It's absolutely necessary for you to have the right mic for the job no matter what it is that you are recording. I've put together a list of some my favorite microphones that get used all the time. It's ironic that every mic on this list sounds bad on something. That's what I look for in a microphone...character. Sometimes the ability to ruin one thing is what gives the ability to fix another.
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» Getting Too Obsessed With Sound Quality and Missing The Point
By Brandon Drury | Published 12/27/2005 | Getting Started | Rating:
A lot of recording engineers get too obsessed with engineering in my opinion. Sometimes we put too much importance into the audio engineering part of recording and often forget about the most important part...the music.
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» The Other Fastest Way To Improve Your Audio Recordings
By Brandon Drury | Published 12/11/2005 | Getting Started | Rating:
I've said before that the fastest way to improve the quality of your recordings is to record better bands. I still believe this, but I now have the other fastest way to improve the quality if your recordings.
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