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From the Desk of Steve Smart: Vinyl interview on 2UE radio
Just before christmas, Steve Smart was interviewed on 2UE radio by Mike Jeffreys. He was asked for his opinion on the vinyl and mp3 mediums: Have a listen to that interview here:…
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From the desk of Steve Smart: Mastering for Vinyl – Part 3
To book Steve Smart for your mastering project, click here or contact Lynley on 02 9698 5888 or mastering@studios301.com This is the third of a three part series: From the Desk of…
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Production Tips with Sameer: Tricks for mixing drums
To book Sameer Sengupta for a mastering or mixdown session, contact Lynley via mastering@studios301.com or 02 9698 5888. I have been one of the resident Mastering Engineers here at Studios 301 for almost 3 years. You…
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From the Desk of Steve Smart: Mastering for Vinyl – Part 2
This is the 2nd part continuing on from last week’s post, where we sat down with Senior Mastering Engineer, Steve Smart to chat about his experiences working with Vinyl. This is the…
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From the Desk of Steve Smart: Mastering for Vinyl – Part 1
Steve Smart is one of the few mastering engineers in Australia who started his career as a Vinyl Cutting Engineer (back at CBS records in the 1980’s). Based on his experience of…
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Jack Prest’s Tips & Tricks: Recording using only a few mics.
One of the hot topics requested through our Facebook page has been ‘recording using a small number of microphones. This is a really easy technique and can be far simpler and effective…
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Guy Gray’s Tips & Tricks: CRITICAL LISTENING
Resident Producer/Engineer Guy Gray is back with another set of Tips & Tricks to share with you. This week, he lets you in on a simple but crucial skill – the gentle…
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Guy Gray’s Tips & Tricks: MIXING
Guy Gray as 30 years of experience includes engineering scores, large orchestral recordings, surround mixing as well as music production for successful film projects throughout Australia and Southeast Asia. He will be providing…
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Jack Prest’s Tips & Tricks – Vocal Reverb
One of the most important aspects of mixing a vocal and getting it to sit in your mix is the amount and type of reverb you apply to it. Reverb is critical…
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A day in the life of: the Mastering Assistant
Hi, my name is Harvey O’Sullivan and I’m the Mastering Assistant here at Studios 301. The nature of 301 is very dynamic and being an assistant requires a “Jack-of-all-trades” attitude. My responsibilities…
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Jack Prest’s Tips & Tricks – Parallel Compression
We ran a survey recently to discover what aspect of production many of you want to learn about. So, this time around I’ll be looking at a popular topic and technique, parallel compression.…
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SSL vs Neve
As I tour people through our recording facilities in Sydney, I usually refer to our Neve 88R and SSL 9000k consoles as the “Ferrari and Lamborghini of mixing consoles”…. They are both the best cars that…
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Jack Prest’s Tips & Tricks – Waves L1 Limiter
Now this one isn’t exactly my tip, I get this one from watching Pensado’s Place, but it’s great so I wanted to share. Basically it’s a way to get that uber brick wall…
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Dadalife – Sausage Fattener
This is one of my favourite distortion units and its amazingly cheap (get it here http://www.dadalife.com/sausage-fattener-plugin/). It’s great for creating super gnarly crunched up distortions, but one of my favourite things to do…
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Vibe
So what is “Vibe”? This time, our Studio Philosopher talks about a word that you will probably hear more than any other in a studio session, “vibe”. Very much an abstract concept, and…
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Jack Prest’s Tips & Tricks – Waves C1 Compressor plug-in
The Waves C1 Compressor. Here’s a little trick I found the other day with one of my favourite swiss army knife compressors, the Waves C1. It’s especially good for snare drums and…
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The Studio Philosopher
I am the Studio Philosopher and I have been enlisted by Studios 301 to share some of my thoughts and knowledge about all aspects of studio life. Much of what we do…
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What is Mastering?
We have learnt that You, our audience, comprises of a very broad range of musicians and music lovers, from seasoned professionals, to those just beginning to exercise their passions and wanting to…