Matt Harvey — Charlotte Recording Connection

Dynamic Signal Processing and Studio Time! - Recording Connection Week 14 Progress - Posted by Matt Harvey on 2016-03-02

This week's lesson was on Dynamic Signal Processing, or Compression techniques. Compression is used to decrease (compress) the dynamic range of a sound or recording... Read More >>

EQ'ing and Project Progress - Recording Connection Week 13 Progress - Posted by Matt Harvey on 2016-03-02

This week's material was on the process of Equalization, or EQ'ing. EQ'ing is used to increase or decrease the frequency response of a sound in it's frequency range... Read More >>

Mix theory, Vivaldi, and more Thieving! - Recording Connection Week 12 Progress - Posted by Matt Harvey on 2016-02-21

Week 12 lesson material was on Mixing songs inside of your DAW (Pro Tools, FL Studio, etc.). Mixing is the creative process of deciding where the volume levels should be, where the panning of the audio should be in the mix, and adding effects to for creating even more sound possibilities... Read More >>

Midterm time, Halfway There! - Recording Connection Week 11 Progress - Posted by Matt Harvey on 2016-02-21

This week, the book did not have any new material. Instead, it was just the all of the section reviews from the previous chapters... Read More >>

Plugins, Newsletter Feature, Continuing Learning with Pro Tools, and Thieves! - Recording Connection Week 10 Progress - Posted by Matt Harvey on 2016-02-08

This week of learning was, indeed, a full one! The very first thing that happened this week is something that I have known about for almost 3 weeks and have kept it under the hat until it was ready to be announced... Read More >>

Learning Pro Tools and Great Studio Time! - Recording Connection Week 9 Progress - Posted by Matt Harvey on 2016-01-29

This week's lesson was on the Basics of Pro Tools. This was a very interesting chapter in this week's material... Read More >>

Intro to new software and a catchy jam! - Recording Connection Week 8 Progress - Posted by Matt Harvey on 2016-01-22

This week's lesson material was an introduction to the very powerful software, Pro Tools. Pro Tools is the industry standard in audio found in music, TV, and movies... Read More >>

Tracking in addition to more tracking, and S.W.A.T.! - Recording Connection Week 7 Progress - Posted by Matt Harvey on 2016-01-14

This week's material was on Tracking different instruments. Tracking is the process of recording each instrument (drums, vocals, bass guitar, vocals, piano, pots and pans if you like) individually and building a full track from scratch... Read More >>

Microphone Placement and Popularly Misunderstood Tuning - Recording Connection Week 6 Progress - Posted by Matt Harvey on 2016-01-07

This week's material was about the very important idea of microphone placement. I did not know that there were so many different ways to position a microphone or microphones on different recordable sound sources... Read More >>

Microphones - Recording Connection Week 5 Progress - Posted by Matt Harvey on 2015-12-31

This week's lesson was about an important tool that we use not in only in recording studios, but in many other elements in our lives, microphones! This lesson began with a small look into the history of microphones... Read More >>