Movement and evolution

Hello,

I’ve been writing for about two months now and have enjoyed every post. I hope I have been writing good and useful content for you to read and further evolve your audio productions. I’m up to about 20,000 words at this point which for me is a pretty good achievement that I am really proud of.

But now there is time for change. I am moving this site.

I have a new website up and running at the domain name http://www.audio-production-tips.com

http://www.audio-production-tips.com

There I will continue updating content about audio production and music mixing. Everyday I hope to write a new article that will stay on the site, not as a blog post but as a dedicated web-site.

Why am I moving from wordpress.com?

First of all, wordpress.com doesn’t allow a lot of features. I would have to move to wordpress.org and learn a lot of webmaster-y things that I don’t have the time for. WordPress as a system is very intuitive and a great blog platform but at this point in time, not exactly what I’m looking for.

The service I am using now does all this for me and allows me complete control over what I put on the site, and although the wordpress templates offered here certainly look more professional than the current template I have up and running at Audio-production-tips.com there will be changes to the design very soon.

As of now the website has a few articles, some of them old blog posts from this site rewritten as stand-alone web-pages. I will keep posting and further developing that site until it is full of quality content, ideas and thoughts about the audio and music industry.

So I hope you will keep reading what I have to say and check out the new site. There you can browse through the content that’s already up as well as subscribing to the rss-feed guaranteeing you get updates as soon as I write them.

I hope to see you on the other side.

Björgvin

http://www.audio-production-tips.com

How many sound-techs?

How many sound-techs does it take to change a light-bulb?

7.

One to screw it out, another to screw it in and five others to talk about how they would have done it differently.

That’s it for today, check out Mix Magazine online for quality articles regarding mixing and recording. Their classic album articles are priceless, full of free, interesting ideas as to how some of our most valued songs were recorded.

Short blog today, hope you’ll forgive me. Have a great weekend.

Link roundup to start the week.

Today I want to use the Almighty Internet to find some useful websites for you. It’s a Monday and if you are having a hard time getting the week under your feet a quick browse through these sites may seem like a nice beginning to your week.

Partners in Rhyme have a pretty intensive sound effect library.

And the best of all, it’s free! Sometimes you need sound effects to make soundscapes in your songs, or are working on a post-production project that needs interesting sound effects. Check that site out if you are need of SFX.

Hometracked has an interesting article about the abuse of Auto-Tune in popular music.

Auto Tune has become a stable in modern recordings and suddenly the amount of great singers are augmented by the use of this plug-in. The things some artist get away with are incredible and sometimes they use Auto-tune as a vocal effect

MadTracker.org

Madtracker has an extensive library of all kinds of software plug-ins, and many of them are free. I haven’t checked out their library thoroughly but the sites definitely has a lot to offer in regards to new plug-ins to make your tracks stand out.

EQ Guide

And when you’ve finally surfed your Monday dose of audio websites, here’s a EQ guide you can check back to when you finally start recording or mixing your tracks. It’s an extensive overview of the frequency spectrum and a good thing to reference when you’re trying to make an instrument stand out.

Have a good day and remember to check back every week-day for a different tip or thought about the wonderful world of audio recording.

Comping tutorial at Audiotuts!

Before the tip-of-the-day post that will be posted later I wanted to give you an extra for this week. All you Logic lovers out there might not know of the intuitive way you can comp tracks using it’s built-in function.

Check out the tutorial at Audiotus.com. They have an extensive list of great tutorials about a variety of subjects for all your audio needs.