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

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.

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.

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

Getting all the parts of a mix to fit nicely together, and a few simple compression and EQ techniques can help. READ MORE

Evenly spaced overheads? Close-miked drums? HOGWASH!! This video features George Massenburg and some interesting and great sounding techniques for recording drums.

Stereo simply means the mix has two channels (left and right). A mono mix is simply one channel. You combine (or sum) the left and right channels into a single channel. Listening to mixes in mono can be very helpful. I’ll explain why. READ MORE

WHAT’S WRONG WITH IT!?! Have you ever mixed the band and felt something was wrong with the mix?  You tweak and tweak but the sounds just don’t gel. Time to trash your mix and start over. READ MORE