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Recording Engineer's Quarterly provides the recording & music industry with recording articles,
recording training, audio recording tips, and links to other sites of interest to the
musician, recordist, songwriter, professional recording engineer
and producer. |
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INFORMATION ABOUT THIS
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In Depth Web Study
$9.98/Month |
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Paid
PRO AUDIO SPECIALIST
users get 12 months access to
hundreds of tips, hundreds of articles, complete audio texts, audio demos, online
study modules & certification for $99 or 4 payments of $29.95 -
go here to order
Paid DEVELOPING ARTIST PRODUCTION
MEMBERS get 12 months access to the RID Online Production
School and dozens of additional tips and articles on
production, marketing & music business for $29.95 -
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DAP was started to help
upcoming artists. We want
YOU to record and produce - we'll help. We
want YOU to write and publish your own tunes -
we'll
provide help. We want YOU to successfully
promote and market your music releases to let you
become
as successful as your talent will make you. |
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FEATURE ARTICLES |
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The popular
Michigan Music Column is being replaced with the Motorcity Music
News - Centering on activity in the Motor City and in the other
"secondary" markets throughout Michigan. The first 3
monthly reports begin to show the "Michigan Roadmap To Success"
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Motorcity Music Report
for January 2003:
DAP starts monthly
reports on the Music News from the 4th largest music
center of America - Detroit "Motorcity" Michigan. Bob & Tom
explain how "Border Promotion" may may be needed to promote if
you are a developing artist in today's music scene. |
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Motorcity Music Report for February 2003:
Continuing the DAP reports, on
February 4th Bob went on a TAXI ride in Ann Arbor, MI. with Mike
Laskow, asking for the ride's destination to
be music business success. |
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Motorcity Music Report for March
2003: This time DAP checks out Aaron Bookvich,
a Motorcity "Executive In Training"
who talks about how he's helping run a
local record label, managing web postings,
web marketing and how his training has prepared him for
this job in today's music market. |
Tonos Industry Opportunity Leads To Label Release - Read
this and other stories on how Tonos is helping the developing
artist make it. |
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Timed
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3/30/03
If you are not a free registered user,
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DAP Articles on music business, music marketing and
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Learn How to
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THE PRO
AUDIO SPECIALIST REFERENCE ARTICLES
Paid subscribers
studying our 63-lesson basic audio study module also have access to 19 tip
and full-length articles that give further techniques and
applications to the lessons' subjects. Registered (free) users
can access these reference articles until 3/30/2003 - arranged in
the subject topics of the lessons. |
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ALL ACCESS
CO-POST ARTICLE |
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RECORDING MUSIC
ON YOUR PC by Dan E. Monk
Many people like to play games on their
computers; but musicians like the game of recording musical ideas and
jams with their friends. Dan E. Monk explains how to setup your
computer to play theses PC recording games. Article provided
compliments of Dan and our home-recording partner site,
http://www.recordingwebsite.com. |
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NORMALLY
PAID SUBSCRIBER ONLY TIP ARTICLES
Registered User Access Until
March 30, 2003 |
PRO AUDIO SPECIALIST MIDI
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UNDERSTANDING MIDI PT 1 |
REQ Home Recording Editor, Ken Lanyon, explains the basic setup
and how to program MIDI parts. |
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UNDERSTANDING MIDI PT 1 |
Ken continues his explanation of MIDI with an in-depth
explanation of the MIDI Signal. |
PRO AUDIO SPECIALIST DIGITAL/ANALOG RECORDING
ARTICLES |
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WHAT IS DIGITAL RECORDING? |
What is digital recording? How do
bleeps on a hard drive record audio? Bob explains... |
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THE ENEMY OF RECORDING
QUALITY |
Dirt is responsible for most of
the poor performance of recording equipment; this tip shows you
what to do with it. |
PRO AUDIO SPECIALIST PATCHING,
INTERCONNECTION & SOUND REINFORCEMENT ARTICLES |
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SOLDER REPAIRS |
You can keep the hum and buzz
away by learning how to repair cables and connections. |
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DEBUZZ
& UNHUM TECHNIQUES AT HOME |
What does Sally Sucking Soup have to do
with micing vocals? - Find out. |
PRO AUDIO SPECIALIST DELAY & REVERB EFFECTS
ARTICLES |
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GETTING DRUM IMPACT
WITH DELAY |
Using delay techniques to get
the impact on the drums. |
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PRE-DELAY &
REVERB |
The Pre-Delay parameter in the reverb program
determines how the reverb affects the image of distance and the
instrument attack. |
PRO AUDIO SPECIALIST MIXING
TECHNIQUES ARTICLES |
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MAGNIFICENT MIXING TIPS OF THE
RICH & FAMOUS (PART 1) |
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Students and clients alike have asked me for my "secret" in
mixing. Each time it comes up it seems as though the person wants two sentences that will
make chicken salad out of chicken shit. |
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In response to these inquiries,
I’ve come up with 10 "Tips" to getting more than the ordinary mix. You
could use any one of them to make your "ordinary" mix "special." You
could also use all ten and make your mix "totally awesome."
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MAGNIFICENT MIXING TIPS OF THE
RICH & FAMOUS (PART 2) |
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PRO AUDIO SPECIALIST DYNAMICS
PROCESSING ARTICLES |
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USING COMPRESSION IN MIXING &
MASTERING |
Basic guide on compressing the mix during the mixing and
mastering process, including suggested parameters.. |
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YOUR BEST COMPRESSOR (FOR ZERO
DOLLARS) |
Your best
compressor for vocals won't cost you hundreds of dollars, you were born with it - your
finger. Bob explains the why's and how's of riding the faders during vocal
recording.
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PRO AUDIO SPECIALIST CONTROL
ROOM TECHNIQUE ARTICLES |
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PREVENTING
OVERLOAD |
A normal
reading on the meter does not mean that there is no overload. |
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THE FIRST CONTROL ROOM RULE |
Whenever you
are operating control room equipment such as consoles and tape recorders, it's a good
thing to know the first rule. |
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PRO AUDIO SPECIALIST STUDIO
TECHNIQUE ARTICLES |
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MICING APPROACHES - TECHNIQUE 0 |
With this tip we
begin a series on micing approaches - a more fundamental subject
than mic placement - but wait: Do you have any chance of
success? - read on!
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MICING APPROACHES - TECHNIQUE
1 |
This is the
"Capture What's There" approach that is both easy and will make
you look like a qualified recording engineer.
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MICING APPROACHES - TECHNIQUE
2 |
This is the
most-often used approach of capturing the instrument sound
without the room. Three micing techniques are used.
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KEEP ACCESS TO THESE
ARTICLES AND MANY OTHER
ARTICLES LIKE THESE
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a paid Pro Audio Specialist Student/User - only 4
payments of $29.00 -
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DEVELOPING ARTIST PRODUCTIONS
REFERENCE ARTICLES
Paid
DAP Members have access to dozens of tips
and full-length articles on music production, music marketing and
music business.
Registered (free)
users can access these reference articles until 3/30/2003 |
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ALL ACCESS
MUSIC BUSINESS ARTICLE |
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RIGHT STEPS ON
THE ROAD TO A HIT 2003 by Tom Gelardi
Tom Gelardi recommends you stop waiting
to be discovered and simply work on the next step towards getting a
hit record. Working on "first things first" gives you the best chance
for success.
Tom updates his acclaimed music business article for the current scene
in 2003. |
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NORMALLY
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March 30, 2003 |
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HOME RECORDING FOR A NATIONAL
PRODUCTION - Yesterday & Today
by Bob Dennis &
Ron Dunbar
Is
it now really possible to record in your basement for a
national record company. Bob Dennis and Ron Dunbar from developing artist
productions answer this, and explain why. |
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MARKETING A
DREAM - THE
MARKETING & PROMOTION OF A NATIONAL HIT
by Tom
Gelardi & Ron Dunbar
I interviewed Ron Dunbar,
project manager, about the marketing and promotion of the Ronnie Law's
record. The new artist can use some of the same techniques used for
this national hit. |
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WEEDING OUT
PERFORMANCES IN PRODUCTION
by Bob
Dennis &
Tom Gelardi
What is the
difference between a basement band and a hit band? Part of it has to do with pulling
weeds. |
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THE
RECORD COMPANY EXECUTIVES by Ron Dunbar
Ron goes over the roles of
Record Company Executives, such as Producer,
Product Manager, Executive Producer and A&R Director
as well as
the roles of the Publicity, Promotion and Marketing Directors and the
time schedules they keep when a company really
backs a new release. |
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ARTICLES AND MANY OTHER
ARTICLES LIKE THESE
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member for a year - only $29 -
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INTERNET BABY STEP TRAINING
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INTERNET BABY STEPS™ |
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By
Shawn-e Brown |
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A series of
tutorials for those that are functionally limited with computers and
the Internet. Now with a dedicated Website. If you are
new to browsing, check out our lessons. |
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Its becoming more and more
important that artists establish a showcase/home page site where
fans can find out about shows and projects and which can attract new
fans. Shawnee posted a project series of steps to start an AOL
homepage. |
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