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Music Production: Tips for Recording Better Electric Bass Tracks

Introduction
The electric bass is often an overlooked part of recordings. Although most probably don’t do it intentionally, the bass becomes unimportant because less experienced engineers tend to focus strongly on “more important” tracks such as the snare drum or the all-important lead vocal. The reality is that the bass sound is essential to making a really great sounding recording. Here are some tips to help improve your bass sound.

The Most Important Thing
An all too often overlooked aspect of getting good bass sounds is the bass and the bass player. Make sure you have the right bass for the job. Also, you’d be surprised how different two tracks are where everything was identical except the player. A great, experienced bass player can make a world of difference.

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Music Production : Tips for recording piano

Recording a piano is a daunting experience. You need a microphone especially designed for doing so as most normal mikes will produce a very unnatural sound.

Why that is, I’m not sure, but a regular mike is unable to record the actual sound of each string as it is played because the ambience that it picks up along with the sound itself produces a thin echo effect that just doesn’t sound right.

There are mikes that attach to the sound board that pick up the vibrations of the strings being played rather than those that are placed on or around the piano.
They do not pick up the echo or ambience, and are much more accurate for producing life like piano sound in the recording.

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Music Production : Tips for recording your own song

When you listen to your favorite CD, do you ever wonder the hours people put into making it the best possible recording that suits the fans and the sound desired? It’s not an easy process and takes some artistry when it comes to mixing. However, knowing a few tricks and tips can help you achieve that desired sound.

The first thing that every recording needs is a good EQ. This is maybe one of the trickiest parts of mixing and/or recording, however it is advisable to add the EQ effects afterwards in case anything needs to be changed later. Other effects such as reverb and delays should be added after as well.

Depending on your softward or hardware capabilities, there are several advanced EQ’ing plug-ins. Knowing how to do the simple twists will help you play around more with the different frequencies on more advance programs.

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