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New Music Gear Monday: Your Heaven Audio CloseUp Miking System

CloseUp System on Bobby Owsinski's Production Blog

Acoustic stringed instrument players have always suffered from amplification problems in a live environment. Place a microphone on the instrument and you’ll get at least some change in tonal quality and usually a lot of leakage, regardless of the quality of the microphone that you use. Resort to a pickup and the instrument no longer […]

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#direct box #instrument mic

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Apple’s New Publishing Division, Too Similar Pop Songs And Music Exec Ted Joseph On My Latest Podcast

Ted Joseph on Bobby Owsinski's Music Production Blog

My guest this week is longtime Senior VP of Marketing for Warner Bros and current marketing consultant to both labels and indie artists Ted Joseph. Ted has been associated with over 100 gold and platinum recordings for artists in a wide range of genres, from pop and urban to contemporary jazz and country. He has […]

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#Apple #music marking #pop music #Ted Joseph

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Inside The Ruins Of George Martin’s AIR Montserrat

AIR Montserrat studio on Bobby Owsinski's Production Blog

Beatles producer George Martin was one of the first indie music producers, and after having many hits outside of the Fab 4, set up his own personal studio in the Carribean island paradise of Montserrat. When Sir George wasn’t using AIR Montserrat himself, the studio was leased out to a who’s who of 1970/80s music […]

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#AIR Montserrat #George Martin #studio

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My Top 10 Go-To Plugins – 2018 Edition

My 10 Go-To Plugins for 2022 post on Bobby Owsinski's music production blog

I often get asked what plugins I regularly use, so a few years ago I decided to share my plugin thoughts with a personal Top 10 list. Here’s my edition for 2018, which isn’t all that different from last year except that it has fewer compressors, since I’ve found myself using less and less compression […]

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#Exponential Audio #JST #plugins #Pro Tools #PSP #Soundtoys #Universal Audio #Waves

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Trouble With A Guitar Center Extended Warranty? You May Not Be Alone

warranty on Bobby Owsinski's Production Blog

We’ve all heard the pros and cons of extended warranties for everything from appliances to autos, and they’re certainly worthwhile for some and worthless for others. When it comes to musical instruments and audio gear, the manufacturer almost always offers some warranty, while the retailer might offer a third party policy for an additional extended […]

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New Music Gear Monday: Kush Audio REDDI Tube DI Plugin

REDDI DI plugin on Bobby Owsinski's Production Blog

Anyone who’s spent a lot of time recording knows that the type of DI used on a bass really matters. Use a cheap one and the bass will sound thin and dull; use one with a transformer and the bottom will be big and round, and use one with a tube and there’s a magic […]

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#A-Designs #direct box #Kush Audio #REDDI

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Facebook Losing Teens, The Creative Cycle, And Mixer Andrew Maury On My Latest Inner Circle Podcast

Andrew Maury on Bobby Owsinski's Music Production blog

My guest on the Podcast this week is record producer, mixing engineer and songwriter Andrew Maury. Andrew is one of the few mixers who has made the transition from mixing live sound to the studio, and he’s had a lot of success, especially lately working on big hits by Shawn Mendes. In the interview we […]

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#Andrew Maury #composers #Facebook #Shawn Mendes #songwriters

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5 Beatles Guitars That You Forgot

Beatles guitars on Bobby Owsinski's Production Blog

There have been entire books written about the guitars and basses that The Beatles played both live and in recording, and well they should, since their sounds have influenced guitar players even to this day. While we’re all familiar with the iconic Hofner, Rickenbacker, Gretsches and Epiphones that the band played during their prime, there […]

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#bass #guitar #The Beatles

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A Look At The Decca Tree Stereo Recording Technique

Decca Tree on Bobby Owsinski's Production Blog

Even if you never intend to record an ensemble larger than a standard rock, pop, or jazz rhythm section, a good grasp on the many techniques for stereo recording is essential and will come in handy sooner or later. One basic stereo technique is the spaced-pair, which is two identical mics placed several feet apart and […]

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#Decca Tree #spaced-pair #stereo miking

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Check Out These 3 Podcasts I Recently Guested On

Working Class Audio on Bobby Owsinski's Production Blog

I’ve been privileged to be invited to appear as a guest on three great podcasts recently that you might want to check out. Coincidentally, all of them posted at around the same time. The first is the great Working Class Audio Episode #180. Host Matt Boudreau and I spoke about artist/musician/engineer diversification, the state of the […]

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#Music Biz Weekly Podcast #Sound Design Live podcast #Working Class Audio Podcast

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New Music Gear Monday: Klevgrand Brusfri Noise Reducer Plugin

Brusfri noise reducer on Bobby Owsinski's Production Blog

We’ve all had those situations where we’ve had to record a noisy electric guitar or keyboard, or just found the background noise on a track too much to handle. Sure, sometimes the noise gets covered in the mix, but it’s also cumulative, so 4 or 5 noisy tracks can really muddy up a mix. There […]

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#Brusfri #Klevgrand #noise reducer #video

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YouTube’s New Charts, The Guitar Isn’t Dying, And EveAnna Manley On My Latest Inner Circle Podcast

EveAnna Manley on Bobby Owsinski's music production blog

My guest on the Podcast this week is EveAnna Manley, the president, CEO and sole owner of Manley Labs. For the last two decades EveAnna’s been instrumental in the continued proliferation of high-end tube gear to both the pro audio and hi-fi industries. She’s as smart as they come in this business and so incredibly […]

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#Billboard #EveAnna Manley #guitar #Manley Labs #YouTube

in Acoustics , Gear by Bobby Owsinski

Beware: Alexa And Siri Can Hear Inaudible Commands

inaudible commands on Bobby Owsinski's Production Blog

Just about everyone has a smart phone these days, and more and more households are purchasing smart speakers. While some love the convenience of voice commands that these smart devices respond to, it does open up a security hole that only now the general public is becoming aware of. It turns out that both Alexa […]

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#voice recognition

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Get The Most Out Of Your Condenser Microphone

KM54 condenser microphone on Bobby Owsinski's Production Blog

A condenser microphone can sometimes require some extra attention that other types of mics don’t need. Here are a number of tips from the 4th edition of my Recording Engineer’s Handbook that can not only prolong the life of your mic, but also keep its performance as high as the day it left the factory. […]

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#condenser microphone #Recording Engineers Handbook

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Will Live Looping Become The New Rage In Performing?

ZenAud.io ALK live looping on Bobby Owsinski's Production Blog

For the longest time musicians, artists, engineers and producers were used to slaving over songs for long periods of time in the studio. Creation took time, and it went from the more or less 3 hour sessions of the 50s and 60s to the months and even years of the 1990s and 2000s. Thankfully, the […]

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#Eldad Zitrin #looping #ZenAudio ALK

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