Okay, by now you should have a drum track recorded in Ardour as the first step for your recording project. If not, check out Audio Recording in Ubuntu Studio – Part 2: Recording a Hydrogen Drumbeat. The drum track really is the backbone to your recording because it is often filled with the most emotion [...]
Ah, sound proofing… a term which is thrown around by newbie sound guys who have heard of it but don’t necessarily know what it means. They may have heard something about egg boxes, seen really expensive studio setups or heard of some funny stuff like bass traps, suspension ceilings and the like. This one’s for [...]
Okay, so you’ve planned your recording project like I told you to do in Audio Recording in Ubuntu Studio – Part 1: Plan your Project. You now want to create a Hydrogen drumbeat as the backbone to your track. To begin, start up JACK and then Hydrogen. You can begin messing around with beats and [...]
Here’s a tip for live mixing and mastering, but can probably be used in any area of audio recording: If you can’t hear an instrument, it’s probably because of its EQ – not its volume. Before you push up that volume fader, try boosting the instrument’s defining frequencies. Here’s an example. I was mixing for [...]
This post aims to cover the basics around the Hydrogen Drum Machine interface and hopefully get a newbie feeling comfortable with the setup. Firstly, start up JACK and then Hydrogen. Once in Hydrogen, you want to select a drumkit which will suit your song the best. You can do this by opening the View menu [...]
