Derek Bradford — New York City Recording Connection

Lacquer Cutting - Posted by Derek Bradford on 2018-04-19

This week I took a trip with three other students to Yonkers NY with our mentor Mark. We observed a lacquer cutting for a client of his... Read More >>

mix session - Posted by Derek Bradford on 2018-03-29

This week we worked as a group on a mix. We focused on organization and asking "why" we use a plugin on certain tracks instead of just using one because "thats what your supposed to do" we also experimented with checking the mix in mono... Read More >>

SSL & Patch bay - Posted by Derek Bradford on 2018-03-22

This week the focus was the patch bay & a intro to the channel strip on the SSL console.Being familiar with the signal flow is essential knowledge of the studio... Read More >>

Tracking a band - Posted by Derek Bradford on 2018-03-15

This week i was able to help track a six piece band. This would be the most advance tracking session that I have seen to date... Read More >>

Micing the drum kit - Posted by Derek Bradford on 2018-03-08

This week I was able to attend my second drum tracking session. The benefit of this session was that I was able to pick the brain of the engineer and see their thought process on why they chose certain mics and mic placement... Read More >>

Mixing the the real world - Posted by Derek Bradford on 2018-02-28

I decided that I wanted to sharpen my skills as an mix enginer. so i offrered to do all the work my firends projects. One major problem that I'm coning across is that almost  everthing is over compressed... Read More >>

Tracking with Compression - Posted by Derek Bradford on 2018-02-22

This week we able to run a session and the focus was tracking vocals in pro tools and using compression propperly... Read More >>

Prep is key - Posted by Derek Bradford on 2018-02-08

Setting up your mix is key to a productive workflow. Propper labeling and grouping of your tracks will give you more flexability and easily isolate designated sections of the mix... Read More >>

Tracking Session - Posted by Derek Bradford on 2018-02-01

  This week I was able to help set up for a tracking session for a band of studio musicans : Drummer, Guitar, Bass, PIano ... Read More >>

Compression - Posted by Derek Bradford on 2018-01-25

  This week the topic was how to propperly use Compression when tracking voclals. Using the Disterssor compressor in conjunction with the Avalon mic pre amp to get a desired warm vocals Balancing the signal between the Avalon & Distessor to prevent  unwanted nosie Capture the best recording possible  using compression to protect the integrety of the performance propperly gain staging before regording to prevent any distortion and clipping  adjuting the attack and release so the vocals do not sound overly compresed  Read More >>