Tom Belau — Atlanta Recording Connection

- Posted by Tom Belau on 2017-09-19

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Chapter 20: Final - Posted by Tom Belau on 2017-09-19

The final exam was defintely a tricky one for me. Even though I went through the entire review, I still found myself second guessing simple answers I should have known... Read More >>

Chapter 19: Mastering - Posted by Tom Belau on 2017-09-19

This chapter was definitely one of the more interesting chapters to me, specifically because before this I had little to no idea to how songs were really mastered and I enhoyed going through the mastering process myself on our final mix assignment... Read More >>

Chapter 18 Acoustics and Monitoring - Posted by Tom Belau on 2017-09-19

I read this chapter while in the studio, which actually helped a lot because I was able to look around the mixing room as I read to see in real life what the book was describing... Read More >>

Chapter 17: Automation - Posted by Tom Belau on 2017-08-08

I found this chapter as one of the most helpful. I actually did some automation with echo and delay in my mix assignment so I was a bit familiar with what I was watching in the tutorials... Read More >>

Chapter 16: MIDI - Posted by Tom Belau on 2017-08-08

This one was also a fun chapter for me. Since I dont have any mics or amps in my house, producing my music has always been exclusively on MIDI... Read More >>

Chapter 15: Time Based Effects - Posted by Tom Belau on 2017-08-08

I had a lot of fun with this one. Since I've been producing my own music for a year and since im comfortable using time based effects, it gave me a lot of room creatively to work on the mix assignment... Read More >>

Chapter 14: Dynamic Signal Processing - Posted by Tom Belau on 2017-07-25

This chapter was a challenge for me, mainly because before this program, when I would produce music, the only compression I would use was the preset plug in that came with certain software instruments, so this was very new to me... Read More >>

Chapter 13: EQ - Posted by Tom Belau on 2017-07-06

This chapter took me a couple weeks to completly get through. After getting levels on the song I chose to work on at the end of each chapters, my mentor wyatt and the studio owner, Tanner, gave me some helpful tips on how to get a good start on the EQ... Read More >>

Chapter 12, Mix Theory - Posted by Tom Belau on 2017-06-15

Chapter 12 is obviously a very important chapter in general, but it was super important to me because it gave me such abetter understanding on how to make all the pieces of my songs fit together... Read More >>