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Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012
Recording Guns for BioShock Infinite: Parts Two and Three
The Irrational Games Insider Blog has posted parts 2 and 3 of their Audio team’s experience of recording firearms for BioShock Infinite. In part 2, the team discuss the sensations of firing live weaponry that they were aiming to capture, and in part 3, briefly touch upon the designing/editing process. READ MORE
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Monday, May 21st, 2012
CRAS Rocks AES Golf Tourney
picture caption: l to r, Luke Bednar, Becky Fimbres, Greg Stefus and Tyler Emigh (seated) Each year, for the last 15 years, the Nashville AES chapter and NAPRS has held the AudioMasters Benefit Golf Tournament at the Harpeth Hills Golf Club. The event benefts the Nashville Engineer Relief Fund (NERF) who’s missions is “to allow [...]
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Friday, May 18th, 2012
Advanced Workstation Workflow for Music Production
These guidelines layed out by the P&E Wing focus mainly on how the engineer/operator can organize, clean up, and save their project/session data at the end of the day to make the next person’s job a lot easier. When followed, they can eliminate much confusion for all operators, provide answers to anticipated questions, solve certain [...]
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Thursday, May 17th, 2012
The 2-Pound, 72-Channel Wireless Console
RML Labs, the creator of the Software Audio Console (SAC for short), is a software development company that has turned a Windows PC into a powerful virtual live mixing environment. This video shows the setup for a show at the MGM incorporating the SAC console.
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2012
Recording Wind Instruments with George Massenburg
Recording brass instruments in studio is certainly is no easy task, especially if you want to record live and two of the brass players also sing backing vocals. In short, a demanding challenge for George Massenburg who explains to us what he did to avoid problems in this particular situation.
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Tuesday, May 15th, 2012
Miking Church Choirs
In house-of-worship sound system installations, one of the biggest challenges is miking the choir. We want to achieve a good balance, a natural sound, and high gain before feedback. Another goal is to make sure that the microphones are invisible! It’s a tough assignment. READ MORE
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Monday, May 14th, 2012
The Sound of The Avengers
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Sunday, May 13th, 2012
How To Properly Roll a Cable
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Friday, May 11th, 2012
CRAS Digital Lab: Korg Triton
The Triton features an integrated 16 track linear and pattern sequencer system and a 16 part multi-timbral synth engine that draws on sampled waveforms stored on ROM chips. It excels at lush pads and does a good job with acoustic instruments as well. Check out this video demoing some of the great things you can [...]
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Thursday, May 10th, 2012
Compression and EQ Tips
Getting all the parts of a mix to fit nicely together, and a few simple compression and EQ techniques can help. READ MORE
