Tyler Stowe — Tucson Recording Connection

Mastering - Posted by Tyler Stowe on 2016-06-28

Mastering is the final step in engineering music. Once the mix is completed, the mastering process begins. It is the process of taking and transferring the recorded audio and adding the final touches that all future copies will be made from and distributed... Read More >>

Acoustics and Monitoring - Posted by Tyler Stowe on 2016-05-29

Acoustics is branch of physics concerned with the properties of sound. It also refers to the properties and qualities of a room or building that determine how sound is transmitted in it... Read More >>

Automation - Posted by Tyler Stowe on 2016-05-17

Back until the late ‘70s, virtually all multitrack mixing was done using analogue consoles. At this time, automation had not been created... Read More >>

MIDI - Posted by Tyler Stowe on 2016-05-10

MIDI is an acronym for Musical Instrument Digital Interface. It is a standard communication protocol for transmitting data between instuments and computers... Read More >>

Time-Based Effects - Posted by Tyler Stowe on 2016-05-06

Time-Based Effects are the processes in which a form of time manipulation occurs to an audio signal. This can produce desired results that can be minimal in difference to the original sound to something much greater... Read More >>

Dynamic Signal Processing - Posted by Tyler Stowe on 2015-11-30

Chapter fourteen was about dynamic signal processors.  In audio engineering, the dynamic range is the distance between the loudest possible sound and the quietest possible sound in a recording... Read More >>

Equalization - Posted by Tyler Stowe on 2015-09-26

Chapter 13 was all about EQ. EQ is a method that engineers use to rework the frequency response of an audio signal... Read More >>

Mix Theory - Posted by Tyler Stowe on 2015-08-25

Chapter 12 was all about mixing. Mixing is the delicate process of taking all the recorded tracks, instruments, effects, and combining them into a single stereo track... Read More >>

Midterm - Posted by Tyler Stowe on 2015-07-23

Chapter Eleven was the Midterm. I aced it with 100% which suprised me. My mentor told me that I'm the only one that has done so out of the students hes had... Read More >>

Plugins and Processing - Posted by Tyler Stowe on 2015-04-18

Chapter 10 covered everything about plugins. It explained what plugins are, the many formats they're written in, how the formats work, and the popular bundles you see in the audio world... Read More >>