Production

Why Should you Use an Expander on your DI

Brandon S Hire :A/D, Amp, analyzer, Audio, Compression, Compressor, concepts, Converters, daw, db, dbfs, DI, Digital, expander, expanders, expansion, facebook, Factory, floor, Gain, Gain Reduction, guitar, Guitars, HoRNet, I/O, Instrument, Joey, Joey Sturgis, Joey Sturgis Tones, JST, melda, MeldaProduction, Multi, noise, noise floor, Nomad, plugin, Plugins, Production, REAPER, Reduction, Signal To Noise Ratio, Sturgis, Track Utility February 28, 2017

MELDAPRODUCTION MMULTIANALYZER NOISE FLOOR ANALYSIS WITH EXPANDER ENGAGED In the first picture, you’ll see 4 colored bands on the analyzer. The red band is the noise floor of my interface, and it’s reading down around -110dbfs. The dark orange band at the very bottom is where the expander is pushing that noise floor to, down […]

In The Studio/ Recording Techniques

Gain Staging: What to know, & why you shouldn’t stress too much about it!

Brandon S Hire Audio, Bass, Budget, Compass, DI, drums, gain staging, guitar, Home, Home Recording, Perrino, Pre production, Production, recording, Recording Techniques, Steve, Synth, Tempo, Vocals February 25, 2017

Gain Staging: What to know, & why you shouldn’t stress too much about it! By Brandon S Hire Noise Floor (This is a script to a video that will be included in an upcoming series on post production. I decided to make the script its own post because of the amount of confusion there is […]

Gear Reviews/ In The Studio/ Recording Techniques/ Software Reviews

Understanding Drum Sample Libraries

Brandon S Hire Addictive Drums 2, Audio, Ballou, beato, Channel, Compression, Custom, Cymbals, daw, demo, DRT, Drum, Drumagogg, Drumforge, drums, Effects, EQ, GUI, Instruments, Jay, Jigsaw, Joey, Kick, Kick 10, Kit, Kontakt, Kurt, Libraries, Library, Maas, making a Scene, Massey, MAutoAlign, melda, MeldaProduction, Midi, Mix, Mix Ready, Mono, Multi, Multichannel, Native, One Shot, Pack, plugin, Plugins, Processed, Producers, Production, Randy, Randy Staub, Raw, REAPER, rick, Room, Room Sound, Routing, Sample, Sampler, Samples, Slate Digital, Snare, Sound, Sound Radix, SSD4, SSD5, Staub, Stereo, Steven Slate Drums, Sturgis, Trigger, Unprocessed, wav, Workflow, XLN Audio, youtube February 24, 2017

Understanding Drum Sample Libraries From bedroom producers, to the top brass mixing engineers with multiple grammies, there are a lot of people who use drum samples in their mixes. Joey Sturgis is famous for using Kick 10 from Steven Slate Drums in many of his productions (although now Joey Sturgis has his own sample library […]