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This month recording engineer and producer Russ looks at the Haas Effect and how it can be used by anyone looking to widen the soundfield.
Please let us know what you think of this effect and if you have any interesting techniques that you’d like to share we’d love to hear from you.
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A number of leading recording engineers and record producers gathered at Modern World Studios in the UK countryside mid January 2010 to record a series of drum recording masterclass videos. Each contributor covered drum recording, microphone placement, drum tuning and much more from their point of view and experience.
This video features George Shilling. George is a successful record producer, recording engineer, musician and journalist writing for leading music industry magazines. In this video George takes the ‘recording on a budget’ perspective.
Special thanks to everyone that attended, Sean Genockey, Simon Turner, George Shilling, James Towler and Greg Haver. Special thanks also to everyone at Modern World Studios for making us so welcome that we want to come back and do more of these!
THE FULL INTERVIEW WITH CLINT IS NOW HERE
Clint Murphy is an up and coming engineer from New Zealand who is now based in the UK. Clint was based at York Street Studios and worked with lots of leading artists, he now works mostly with producer Greg Haver.
George Shilling recorded a video interview with him recently and this is a small segment of the feature and covers his techniques for getting a better drum sound. Part 1 is here.
UPDATE – 8 Jan 2010
Phew! A great day with Greg, Sean, Simon, James and George filming the drum recording masterclass at Modern World Studios today.
Lot’s of people turned up to watch and take part, most questions posted below in the comments section were answered. Now to get editing!
There will be a number of bite sized videos coming over the next week.
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Following huge demand, this Friday, 8th January, we are launching our recording and mixing techniques workshops. Every month we will be filming a group of leading producers and engineers discussing and demonstrating practical techniques in the studio with questions from our viewers around the World. This month we are at Modern World Studios in the UK and are starting at the beginning with an advanced drum recording session. Each month we will cover every type of recording and mixing with tips and tricks from some of the most respected and creative people in the industry.
This month’s engineer panel:
James Towler
MPG winner and 2 x Grammy nominated engineer and producer
George Shilling
Engineer, producer, musician, writer
Greg Haver
Producer, engineer, musician
Sean Genockey
Producer Engineer
Simon Turner
Lecturer and composer
Come join us and share your techniques or ask the panel questions. Contact Nick Cowan at the studio to get your invitation. Places are limited so hurry!
If you can’t be there send your drum recording questions. Can’t get the kick sound you want? Too much splash from the top kit? Whatever your questions, we will try to find a solution!
Send us your questions in the comments box on THIS page!
Ken Lewis here. I’m currently producing RockRidge Records artist MIGGS (miggsband.com). This is video 3 of 3 of recording electric guitars for the upcoming Miggs album. This segment attempts to show how to blend each of the four different amplifiers to achieve radically different guitar tones without ever changing the individual amps themselves. It also shows how to phase align the microphones. 8 different mics on 4 amps, blended down to one signal. thats alot of phase coherency to worry about!!! -Ken
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSED0YNQKwk[/youtube]
Ken Lewis features in a new series on recording techniques here on the RecordProduction.com/blog.
Ken Lewis here. I’m currently producing RockRidge Records artist MIGGS (www.miggsband.com). This is video 1 of 3 of recording electric guitars for the album. Multiple Amplifiers all linked together and blended for one big sound. In this segment i’m attempting to show how i route the guitar to each amp and mic each amp, how and why. -Ken
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naSC9qnXYsk[/youtube]
