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Mastering your Tracks For a Great Recording

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Taking your mix to the next level with Mastering. Compare your work to commercially produced material. Make a small change and compare again. Evaluate what you've done. Like it? Move on. Don't like it? Go back, Jack, and do it again. Take a break; you deserve it. Besides, you'll want to refresh your ears and then go back and double-check your work. One of AudioMinds's own takes time to share his thoughts on the mastering process. Highly recommended. Very helpful discussion of the mastering phase (based o...

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Digital Audio Recording Help, Recording Music With a Computer

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Learn to Trust your Ears. Your Source For Digital Audio Recording Help. New to the world of digital recording? Please keep in mind that there are many different types of recording software out there. Members here use a wide range of softwares. As there are many to choose from. Most current recording software can give you professional results. But you have to learn how to use it correctly. So, ready to start? We can help. Be sure to check out the tutorials. This is a good place to start. Covers the proper...

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Recording Tutorials Learn Computer Audio Recording

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Learn to Trust your Ears. Digital Audio Recording Tutorials:. The tutorials on this page are animated movies showing the actual screenshots and steps necessary to complete a given process. If you find these tutorials helpful, be sure and post in the forum; we're always looking for suggestions for new ones. Configuring Windows Volume Control. Recording and Playback Setup. Selecting Track Bar Elements. Adding SIR to Aux 1. Intermediate): Ready to add reverb to your song? Importing a WAV file. Zooming In to...

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Trouble Shoot Your Computer For Digital Recording

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Keeping your DAW Recording Computer Stable. Is a freebie from Microsoft that scans and repairs your registry. Run RegClean, Fix Errors, Reboot. Repeat the process until no more errors are found. Is your DAW crashing or freezing? Are you using the best driver for your sound card? Most cards support MME (high latency, good stability) and WDM (lower latency, good stability) driver support. Some also support ASIO (lowest latency, fair stability). Which to use?

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Recording Digital Music with your Computer

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Mac's thoughts on order of recording. Recording With Your Computer - Getting Quality Tracks. It's important to get a good sound going in. Don't expect to fix a bad recording with EQ and effects. If the raw track isn't clean, 'go back, Jack, and do it again'. Laying down quality tracks is the key to producing a quality product. Take your time during setup to select the right microphone and mic placement. Recording a vocal or acoustic instrument? And introduce yourself.). Many higher quality sound cards ho...

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How to Copyright and Protect Your Songs

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Learn to Trust your Ears. The information here applies to all. This PDF file requires. Register the CD as Performing Arts. This protects the CONCEPTs (which is the most important thing to protect). The short form should apply in most cases, just use that form and read the instructions at the top - you'll find out if you need the long form. You can also register the CD as a Sound Recording. If you want to buy the right to publish your rendition of someone else's composition, you can get a compulsory licen...

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The Limey Mixing Pyramid, Learn the Levels for FREE

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Limey's Pyramid Mixing Method. Precept - Everything in life is a pyramid: boss, workers; earl, serfs; king, subjects. The same is true of audio: lead tracks, support tracks. You have your group mix busses set up in a pyramid. Now you want to set up a scratch mix. You do have a track layout sheet, don't you? Now you have a pyramid scratch mix that is flat-no EQ or outboard gear. A lot of beginners make the mistake of blowing all their efforts on putting EQ and effects on PFL/soloed input channels too ...

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Promoting your Music for a Recording Contract

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Promoting Your Music - Selling your Music. Once your blockbuster song or CD is mastered, what's next? You want SOMEBODY to hear the end result of all your efforts! Are you going to distribute a song file on the internet or by CD? If by CD, will you burn a few yourself or have them produced? If you are having them produced, will you have a smaller quantity of CDRs made or will you have a production run done from a glass master and properly packaged for retail sale? And there are more questions! There are ...

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Digital Audio Recording Softwares

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Learn to Trust your Ears. Digital Audio Recording Software. Band in a Box. Note-There are many softwares available for making music on home computers today. This list does not represent an endorsement of any particular software for any. Intended purpose, nor is it meant to be complete. If you have a question about Audio, please Visit Our Forum: Audiominds.com Forum.

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Starting to Record Music with a Home Computer

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Getting Started With The Basics of Digital Recording. So, you've purchased your recording software and want to dive right in and record a masterpiece? Ok, we'll get there. But there is a lot to learn first. If you've run a mixing board, you have a head start. But even if you haven't, the tutorials and how-to's on these pages will get you started on the road to where you want to be. The best place to start? The manual of course. You DID read it, right?