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Mid/Side stereo, a great tool for home recording

By Ruben Kenig | Published: 1 July, 2010

Recording at home (yours or someone else’s) as opposed to a commercial studio has many advantages, cost, comfort and available time amongst them, but disadvantages too in terms of recording environment. One of the main disadvantages can be that the rooms performances are captured in are designed for living in rather than recording. This can cause […]

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Pop culture and counter-culture: Mutually antagonistic symbiosis

By Ruben Kenig | Published: 30 June, 2010

There is a symbiosis between popular culture and counter-culture. Both camps deride, and seem to feel threatened, by the other but they need each-other and form a dynamic system. That dynamism is vital. Cultural evolution is important whether in the mainstream or not, though perhaps for different reasons, and both camps stimulate evolution in the other. The genesis […]

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Hearing When It’s Wrong and Using Reverb to Tie it All Together

By Ruben Kenig | Published: 8 October, 2009

In a previous post I rehearsed some arguments about why direct to stereo recording may be a desirable recording method. There are two main reasons for this, the first is that it gives a chance to capture a live performance giving the listener all the subtlety of musicians making music together, the second is that our hearing skills are sensitive […]

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