What is Ducking In Audio Recording?
Home Brew Audio - Your Home Recording HQ Ducking in audio recording is a technique for allowing a narrator’s voice to be heard clearly and consistently when there is other audio happening at the same...
View ArticleCrossfade Meaning – What Does It Mean To Crossfade Audio?
Home Brew Audio - Your Home Recording HQ So what exactly does it mean to “crossfade audio”? Well before we talk about crossfading, we should probably first talk about just plain old regular fading....
View ArticleWhat Does Compression Mean In Audio Recording?
Home Brew Audio - Your Home Recording HQ A very common question I see is “should I use compression in audio recording?” The best answer to this question is, as is so often the case, “Do you need...
View ArticleReview of the Audio-Technica AT2035 Microphone (Audio Samples)
Home Brew Audio - Your Home Recording HQ The Audio-Technica AT2035 is a large diaphragm condenser (LDC) microphone with a cardioid pickup pattern. (For a review of what a large diaphragm condenser mic...
View ArticleTips For Removing Breaths From Voice Recordings
Home Brew Audio - Your Home Recording HQ Recently, over at the Audio Daily Blog, the voice-over audio production blog at Voices.com, there was a post with suggestions about how to remove breaths from...
View ArticleWhat is A Virtual Instrument? Play Music Without Having To Know How To Play...
Home Brew Audio - Your Home Recording HQ A virtual instrument is software that can sound exactly like the real thing. Professional sounding audio recording is not as dependent on money (for good gear,...
View ArticleHow Do You Overdub When The Audio Is Delayed?
Home Brew Audio - Your Home Recording HQ Someone sent me and email asking why he was hearing his voice two seconds after he spoke/sang into the microphone (this kind of delay is called “latency,” if...
View ArticleWireless Microphone For iPhone: How to Use Any Wireless Mic With Your Phone
Home Brew Audio - Your Home Recording HQ Looking for a wireless microphone for iPhone? Here is how to make any wireless mic work with an iPhone. Recently, a friend asked me how he could use an external...
View ArticleNew Noise Reduction Tool In Audacity
Home Brew Audio - Your Home Recording HQ Audacity ( is a free audio recording and editing software program that can do some amazing things for the price:). We even have a tutorial course with videos...
View ArticleReview Of The EV RE20 Dynamic Microphone
Home Brew Audio - Your Home Recording HQ Here is my review of the EV RE20 mic. It is now my go-to vocal mic. So that’s sort of a spoiler about what I think of this fabulous :-). So I just finished...
View ArticleSennheiser 416 Shotgun Microphone Review
Home Brew Audio - Your Home Recording HQ [This review of the Sennheiser 416 shotgun mic originally appeared here in 2013. But I thought I would update it a bit in the wake of all the microphone reviews...
View ArticleHome Recording Studio – Setting One Up On Your Computer – Part 1
Home Brew Audio - Your Home Recording HQ Step by step series showing you how to set up a home recording recording studio in a spare bedroom using just a computer and affordable equipment.
View ArticleHome Studio Recording: Creating Pro Audio In 2019
Home Brew Audio - Your Home Recording HQ When folks hear the term “home studio” they often picture special rooms filled with expensive scary-looking equipment. But that is an outdated image. I’d like...
View ArticleDigital Audio Workstation: What Is A DAW Anyway?
Home Brew Audio - Your Home Recording HQ What is a DAW? It stand for digital audio workstation. But it seems the term DAW is being used more and more to describe ANY kind of audio software. And that is...
View ArticleAudio Normalization: What Is It And Should I Care?
Home Brew Audio - Your Home Recording HQ If you’ve heard the term “audio normalization,” or just anything like “you should normalize your audio?” you may well wonder “what the heck does that mean?...
View ArticleSong Recording Studio: How To Set One Up At Home
Home Brew Audio - Your Home Recording HQ Here is how you can set up a song recording studio at home without having to spend a ton of money. You also don’t need to be an audio engineer or go back to...
View ArticleHow to Get Rid Of Background Noise In Audacity
Home Brew Audio - Your Home Recording HQ Want to know how to get rid of background noise in your audio recordings? Here is an easy and free way to do it using Audacity audio software. Unless you are...
View ArticleReaper Effects: How To Add Effects To Audio In Reaper
Home Brew Audio - Your Home Recording HQ Here is how to apply Reaper effects to an entire track of audio. Reaper is my favorite digital audio workstation (DAW). I use it for all kinds of recording from...
View ArticleReview Of Accusonus ERA Bundle (Amazing Vocal Plugins)
Home Brew Audio - Your Home Recording HQ I have spent the past week or so testing out the ERA Bundle of vocal plugins from Accusonus. All I can say is “Wow!“ If you record vocals for any reason, you...
View ArticleWhy You Should Not Use A Mixer In Your Home Recording Studio, Pt 1
Home Brew Audio - Your Home Recording HQ Should you have a recording mixer as part of your home studio? I say no. I know, I know. You experienced recording folks are going to say “why shouldn’t I have...
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