James Gazzola — New York City Recording Connection

Chapter 19 - Posted by James Gazzola on 2014-05-14

Mastering is the final engineering stage of audio prior to its consumer use. Often, loudness is the main concern of mastering as loud music makes sales... Read More >>

Chapter 18 - Posted by James Gazzola on 2014-05-14

A square room is the worst possible recording environment. A room with dimensions that are multiples of each other produces horrible echoes that can ruin an otherwise good performance... Read More >>

Chapter 17 - Posted by James Gazzola on 2014-05-14

It is a beautiful thing to see motorized faders fly to their pre-ordained positions during a bounce. Faders need not be manually ridden as in days of old... Read More >>

Chapter 15 - Posted by James Gazzola on 2014-05-14

Time-based effects are my personal favorite thing to hear in a mix. Interesting sounds are what make hits, and time-based effects are certainly THE most interesting sounding effect out there... Read More >>

Chapter 16 - Posted by James Gazzola on 2014-05-14

MIDI stands for Musical Instrument Digital Interface. As a bass guitarist I had not used MIDI prior to my involvement with the Recording Connection... Read More >>

Chapter 14 - Posted by James Gazzola on 2014-05-14

Compressors detect an incoming signal and have a means of controlling that signal. There are two types of compressor circuits: feed-forward and feed-back... Read More >>

Chapter 13 - Posted by James Gazzola on 2014-05-14

Equalization was invented to sharpen trans-atlantic telegraph signals. The capacitance of long cables muddles transmission, so a Mr... Read More >>

Chapter 12 - Posted by James Gazzola on 2014-05-14

A stereo image is created by adjusting panning, the left to right attenuation, and volume, the relative loudness of tracks in a mix... Read More >>

Chapter 10 - Posted by James Gazzola on 2014-05-14

Protools plugins are way cool! This software can produce nearly any sound by reshaping the envelope and frequencies. Inserts are used for dynamic and frequency- based processing, while sends are used in modulation and time-based effects, as well as to allow multiple tracks to route to the same effect plugin... Read More >>

Chapter 9 - Posted by James Gazzola on 2014-05-14

Without the installation walkthrough in Chapter 9, I would surely still be trying to install Protools. Though labyrinthine, the intricacies of the download are clearly dissected and exposed to the Recording Connection student... Read More >>