Chase Jowell — Dallas Recording Connection

Lesson 19 - Posted by Chase Jowell on 2014-06-08

In this lesson, we went over the different aspects of mastering. Jeff explained that he hasn't done much mastering in the past simply because it's almost an entirely different field than being a mix engineer... Read More >>

Lesson 18 - Posted by Chase Jowell on 2014-06-08

In this lesson, we went over almost every aspect of the design of Eagle Audio Studios. We examined the walls and structural implementations of sound control, from the slanted windows to the design and mixing point of the control room... Read More >>

Lesson 17 - Posted by Chase Jowell on 2014-06-08

Automation! This chapter was very very useful. We went over read, write, touch, and latch automation modes in Pro Tools and how they can be used to achieve different things... Read More >>

Lesson 16 - Posted by Chase Jowell on 2014-06-08

In this chapter we went over MIDI and the various applications that it can be used for. Jeff explained that Broadway shows use MIDI for automatic stage rearrangements and for fireworks shows, and I thought that they only used it for music and sampling and things like that... Read More >>

Lesson 15 - Posted by Chase Jowell on 2014-06-08

In this lesson, we went over time-based effects such as reverbs and delays. Jeff explained that the most practical way to use time-based effects are on aux send tracks, using the track signal sent to the aux and controlling the level of the reverb with the aux track while keeping the volume of the original intact... Read More >>

Lesson 14 - Posted by Chase Jowell on 2014-06-08

In this lesson over dynamic signal processing, we went over the effectiveness of using compressers, limiters, and gates in a mix... Read More >>

Lesson 13 - Posted by Chase Jowell on 2014-06-08

In this lesson, we covered extensively the most frequent and important applications of equalization that are used in the studio... Read More >>

Lesson 12 - Posted by Chase Jowell on 2014-06-08

For the lesson over mix theory, Jeff showed me some of the things that he had been working on at Eagle Audio over the past few sessions... Read More >>

Lesson 10 - Posted by Chase Jowell on 2014-05-07

Plugins and processing. This lesson included the sine wave assignment, which quite honestly helped me really get used to doing some work in this DAW... Read More >>

Lesson 9 - Posted by Chase Jowell on 2014-05-07

Again, this lesson was basically the same as lesson 8 and provided some more quick information on protools, including how to reuse a template, how to use an external drive to get more tracks and busses, and some other useful information... Read More >>