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Vocal Recording

admin — Sat, 29 Jun 2019 19:20:45 +0000

Vocal recording is regarded by some as a dark science and by others as just a simple matter of placing a microphone in front of the vocalist and pressing the record button. The truth, of course, lies somewhere between the two. In this article, I’d like to take you through some of the principle procedures and functions that will introduce you to the basics of vocal recording to help make it an easier and more satisfying task.

We will look at beginner’s microphone choices, what hardware suits your needs, address software options, a few fundamental techniques and finish off with a brief look at what happens once you have completed your vocal recording session.

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Sports Commentating, Podcasting, Film Narration, Advertisement Voice-over, Automated Dialogue Replacement (ADR), Audio Book, Radio Play and, of course, where vocal recording is probably most commonly employed – singing. I felt it was important to list the many wide and varied applications of vocal recording because each one has its own unique discipline and technique and recording singers is no exception.

Vocal Recording
Choir Recording
Sound Recording
Instrument Recording
Crowd Recording
Field Recording

Field Recording in New York City

Field recording is the term used for an audio recording produced outside a recording studio, and the term applies to recordings of both natural and human-produced sounds. It also applies to sound recordings like electromagnetic fields or vibrations using different microphones like a passive magnetic antenna for electromagnetic recordings or contact microphones. For underwater field recordings, a field recordist uses hydrophones to capture the sounds and/or movements of whales, or other aquatic organisms. These recordings are very useful for sound designers.

Sound Mixing

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Before the introduction of multitrack recording, all the sounds and effects that were to be part of a recording were mixed together at one time during a live performance. If the sound blend was not satisfactory, or if one musician made a mistake, the selection had to be performed over until the desired balance and performance was obtained. However, with the introduction of multitrack recording, the production phase of a modern recording has radically changed into one that generally involves three stages: recording, overdubbing, and mixdown

During production dialogue recording of actors is done by a person variously known as location sound mixer, production sound or some similar designation. That person is a department head with a crew consisting of a boom operator and sometimes a cable person.

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Audio mixing for film and television is a process during the post-production stage of a moving image program by which a multitude of recorded sounds are combined. In the editing process, the source’s signal level, frequency content, dynamics, and panoramic position are commonly manipulated and effects added. In video production, this is called sweetening.

Track Mastering

admin — Sat, 29 Jun 2019 19:18:45 +0000

Mastering, a form of audio post production, is the process of preparing and transferring recorded audio from a source containing the final mix to a data storage device (the master), the source from which all copies will be produced (via methods such as pressing, duplication or replication). In recent years, digital masters have become usual, although analog masters—such as audio tapes—are still being used by the manufacturing industry, particularly by a few engineers who specialize in analog mastering

After the introduction of the microphone and electronic amplifier in the mid-1920s, the mastering process became electro-mechanical, and electrically driven mastering lathes came into use for cutting master discs (the cylinder format by then having been superseded). Until the introduction of tape recording, master recordings were almost always cut direct-to-disc.^[3] Only a small minority of recordings were mastered using previously recorded material sourced from other discs.

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Although tape and other technical advances dramatically improved the audio quality of commercial recordings in the post-war years, the basic constraints of the electro-mechanical mastering process remained, and the inherent physical limitations of the main commercial recording media—the 78 rpm disc and later the 7-inch 45 rpm single and 33-1/3 rpm LP record—meant that the audio quality, dynamic range,^[a] and running time^[b] of master discs were still limited compared to later media such as the compact disc

DIGITAL Mastering

In the 1990s, electro-mechanical processes were largely superseded by digital technology, with digital recordings stored on hard disk drives or digital tape and mastered to CD. The digital audio workstation (DAW) became common in many mastering facilities, allowing the off-line manipulation of recorded audio via a graphical user interface (GUI). Although many digital processing tools are common during mastering, it is also very common to use analog media and processing equipment for the mastering stage. Just as in other areas of audio, the benefits and drawbacks of digital technology compared to analog technology are still a matter for debate. However, in the field of audio mastering, the debate is usually over the use of digital versus analog signal processing rather than the use of digital technology for storage of audio.^[2]

Digital systems have higher performance and allow mixing to be performed at lower maximum levels. When mixing to 24-bits with peaks between -3 and -10 dBFS on a mix, the mastering engineer has enough headroom to process and produce a final master.^[6] Mastering engineers recommend leaving enough headroom on the mix to avoid distortion.^[7] The reduction of dynamics by the mix or mastering engineer has resulted in a loudness war in commercial recordings.^[8]

Audio Editing

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Live Recording

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Mobile Studio

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