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Cabin Fever Combat - Chapter Three

With any luck and without the normal distractions you encounter at home, a quiet hotel room can often provide you with a good place to focus on a piece of music. When I first approach a new selection or go back to tighten up a tune already under my fingers, I spend many hours visualizing the music - running it through my head while not playing my guitar and then locking in the visual while playing.

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Preventing Clipping in Recording and Mixdown

HOW TO AVOID CLIPPING DURING RECORDING

Cabin Fever Combat - Chapter Two

 After digesting the donut, which is the ideal self defense technique against a potentially dangerous donut (you just don’t know when they might attack), there still may be several hours left to kill in a hotel room - sometimes well over a day, depending on the tour. Sure, it would be easy enough to circumvent cabin fever by simply going out and seeing the town, catching a movie, trying out a new restaurant, or visiting the neighborhood zoo. But I’m more interested in addressing here what can actually be accomplished by NOT leaving your modern cave.

 

Cabin Fever Combat - Chapter One

Touring as a road musician can conjur up new definitions to the words tedious and resourceful - especially after 243,256 tours in a row (with only a 3 to 5 day span between tours), some 1,423,225 shows, and 8 billion, 482 million, 623 thousand and 14 miles of travel. Much of this has been clocked with my trusty GPS system so I’m pretty sure of the accuracy of my calculations.

 

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Combining 16-bit and 24-bit Audio in the Same DAW Project

I'm working on a 24-bit multitrack recording in my DAW. I imported some older recordings -- 16-bit wave files -- into that 24-bit project. Does that degrade the sound quality?

GRAMMA Cleans Up

When Robert Randolph & The Family Band take to the stage to deliver an electrifying performance, sound engineer Sean Quackenbush relies on GRAMMA.

How Elevation Works (6 Flash Videos)

Superscope Technologies has created 6 flash tutorials to help users get the most from using their popular Elevation software. Download FREE demo! Windows or Mac!!

How to Master Your Album or Demo

Mastering is the last creative step in your album project before you burn the final CD used for duplication. After recording mixes of your songs on your computer's hard drive, you'll put together a CD album or demo of those mixes. Here are some ways to do that.

4-Track Recording with the Zoom H4

This simplified guide explains the procedures for 4-track recording with the Zoom H4 and its supplied recording software, Cubase LE. When I say "Jog" in the procedures below, that means to turn the Jog thumbwheel on the right side of the Zoom H4 so that the on-screen cursor moves to a new selection.

 

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