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    Home Recording Awesomeness: 6 Mostly Free Tips For Making Your Audio Sound Expensive
    Home Recording Awesomeness: 6 Mostly Free Tips For Making Your Audio Sound Expensive
    Home Recording Awesomeness: 6 Mostly Free Tips For Making Your Audio Sound Expensive
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    Home Recording Awesomeness: 6 Mostly Free Tips For Making Your Audio Sound Expensive

    By Ken Theriot

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    This book contains 6 tips that will help anyone immediately improve the quality of the audio they record at home, no matter what kind of microphone or other equipment currently being used. The first 4 tips are completely free, meaning the reader would not have to buy or build anything in order to implement the advice in that tip right away. The 5th tip discusses the pros and cons of buying a better microphone, starting with mics under $100 and going up from there. the final tip discusses acoustic room treatment - putting acoustic foam on the walls of the room where recording is taking place - and the prices associated with that.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKen Theriot
    Release dateJul 25, 2016
    ISBN9781370791651
    Home Recording Awesomeness: 6 Mostly Free Tips For Making Your Audio Sound Expensive
    Author

    Ken Theriot

    Ken Theriot is a musician, voice-over actor, recording engineer and author. He has been recording and producing music for over 20 years. He started the web site Home Brew Audio (http://www.homebrewaudio.com) to help people set up and use their home studios to produce high quality audio without having to spend a fortune (the starting budget is “zero-to-five dollars”), and without having to have a masters degree in audio engineering. Home Brew Audio is all about getting the point across so “regular non-techie" people can understand the concepts, which trulyaren’t hard. They just seem that way because too often the explanations come from “tech guys” whose second language is “engineer-ese.”

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      Home Recording Awesomeness - Ken Theriot

      Home Recording Awesomeness:

      6 Mostly Free Tips For

      Making Your Audio

      Sound Expensive

      by

      Ken Theriot

      Table of Contents

      Tip 1 - Get Closer To The Mic

      Tip 2 - In The Shape Of A Heart

      Tip 3 - Louder Sometimes Is Better

      Tip 4 - Kill The P-Pops!

      Tip 5 - Try A Better Mic

      Tip 6 - Acoustic Treatment For Your Walls

      The Newbies Guide To Audio Recording Awesomeness

      Tip # 1 – Get Closer To The Microphone

      This first technique has a huge impact on recording quality, and it's something you can do right now without, as I said, having to buy or build anything. And you won't believe how simple it is. Ready? Just move closer to the mic! See for yourself - and more importantly - HEAR for yourself how much difference it can make in the video below:

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      One of the biggest challenges we face as people who record audio at home is that we don't have ideal recording spaces. A vast majority of us, Yours Truly included, set up our home recording studios in a spare bedroom.

      More often than not, these rooms are almost perfectly designed to provide us

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