So you’re getting ready to record your friends in his basement playing his guitar. You’re getting ready to set up and you pull out a couple of microphones. Which Mic do I use? There really isn’t a simple answer. Ask yourself a question, what do I want it to sounds like. There are hundreds of [...]

As we move into the next characteristics of sounds, we will be talking about what happens to sounds to make them unique and interesting.  When we keep all of these topics in mind, it will help us be better sound engineers. The last two elements of sound are Harmonics and Envelope. So far everything that [...]

Before we can even star to manipulate sounds, we first need to understand what it is. Sound is energy that travels trough the air, or other substances such as water or even solids, in the form of waves. These waves of energy are called sound-pressure waves and are created by something pushing the air together. [...]