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What Came Before the Phonograph?

By oneoverphi

While it’s tempt­ing to think of audio record­ing as start­ing with Edi­son and his phono­graph in 1877, the truth is that record­ing had been hap­pen­ing for 20 years longer than that. If we dis­count devices to play­back pre-recorded music (musicboxes, orchestri­ons) or sim­u­lated speech (Wolf­gang von Kempelen’s speak­ing machine) the first record­ing, as we... »

Portable Recording Equipment to Grab Your Brilliance

By oneoverphi

So you’re out on the road, or jam­ming in a friends base­ment or sit­ting in a park strum­ming away and you want to record the sparkly bits of music that flow forth. Time was that you  might have had a portable  cas­sette recorder to cap­ture your bril­liance. These days a host of tools exist, with a host of fea­tures... »

Study Up on Recording Guitar and Work It Like a Pro… Baby

By oneoverphi

Well, between my day job, rais­ing the lit­tle mon­keys, bang­ing my head against con­tract work, and design­ing up Euphonic Remarks’ new home, it’s a won­der that I can get to post­ing at all. This is a short but good one. I’ve rounded up some solid arti­cles on record­ing gui­tars. There is lots of in-depth infor­ma­tion in these... »

Great Articles on Home Recording

By oneoverphi

Like many musi­cians today, I have a mod­est home stu­dio that I record in. Always keen to improve my record­ing skills, I was glad to stum­ble upon Home​Tracked​.com. It is a great blog main­tained by Des McK­in­ney which has lots of tips and tricks for get­ting the most out of your equip­ment, per­for­mance, and time. When the novice first... »

Get the Best Sound From Your Room

By oneoverphi

If you’re seri­ous about record­ing your mas­ter­pieces in the com­fort of your own home stu­dio, then you might want to look into the finer points of room treat­ment. Ethan Winer has a com­pre­hen­sive arti­cle on acoustic treat­ment for your stu­dio spaces. It goes into great detail about the whys and where­fores of pre­ping a room for... »

New Frontiers in Pitch Correction

By oneoverphi

The New York Times back in the sum­mer reported on a new piece of soft­ware that promises to bring pitch cor­rec­tion to poly­phonic record­ings. Direct Note Access has the abil­ity to reach into a chord and manip­u­late the indi­vid­ual notes in iso­la­tion. Direct Note Access is cre­ated by Cele­mony (the boys that brought you Melo­dyne). You... »

Can You Make a Record In One Month?

By oneoverphi

Go ahead … what’s stop­ping you? That’s the tag-line of The RPM Chal­lenge; a one month, one album chal­lenge in the vein of NaNoW­riMo. This takes place in Feb­ru­ary so you have a lit­tle over two weeks to get your mojo going. This is the chal­lenge: record an album in 28 days, just because you can. That’s 10 songs... »

Canadian Songwriting Contest With a Cash Prize

By oneoverphi

You have just over two months to get your award win­ning song crafted. Astral Media Radio and Cana­dian Music Week are pre­sent­ing the 16th Annual National Song­writ­ing Com­pe­ti­tion. The dead­line is on Fri­day, Decem­ber 12, 2008, but don’t take my word for it read the rules and reg­u­la­tions. I must admit it’s a sweet Grand Prize too: $10,000.00... »

5 Big Steps in Music Technology

By oneoverphi

Here is a neat lit­tle list of 5 impor­tant devel­op­ments in mod­ern music tech­nol­ogy brought to you by New Sci­en­tist. I never new there existed such a machine as the pho­nau­to­graph. Cool stuff indeed. The last two hun­dred years have seen huge advances in music tech­nol­ogy, such as elec­tronic music and even home record­ing soft­ware. Here are five of the... »

Get Your own Edison-Style Phonograph

By oneoverphi

The fine peo­ple at Maker Shed, the store­front for Make mag­a­zine, have on offer an Edison-Style Phono­graph. All I can say is that this is damn cool. What I would do with it is anyone’s guess. I’m sure it would be great for get­ting that lo-hi effect into record­ings. It also would make a great party acces­sory.... »

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