Room Treatment on a Budget: First Reflection Points First
Treat the first reflection points before anything else, and a modest budget goes further than most people expect. Where the sound arrives…
Cynthia Kuder
Studio & Recording
Cynthia Kuder
Recording Voice at Home: Distance, Off-Axis Response and Room Tone
Control the distance and the angle before you spend anything on the microphone, because those two choices decide how much room ends…
Cynthia Kuder
Monitoring Levels and Hearing Safety During Long Sessions
Set one monitoring level and leave it alone, and both your ears and your mixes improve. Constant level changes destroy the reference…
Cynthia Kuder
Audio Interface Basics: Preamps, Converters and Latency
Choose the interface by its preamps and its monitoring features, not by its converter chip, because the converter is rarely what limits…
Cynthia Kuder
Mix Translation: Checking a Mix Across Speakers and Headphones
Check the mix on at least three playback systems and note what changes, because a mix that only works in one place…
Cynthia Kuder
Setting Up a Small Home Studio: Signal Chain From Microphone to Monitor
Build the chain in one direction and test at each stage, and a small home studio becomes predictable rather than mysterious. Microphone,…
Cynthia Kuder