Important Things to Remember when Recording Drums
One of the most popular questions we hear in the Recording Engineer courses here at Pinnacle, next to getting a great guitar sound, is how to get a huge drum sound. Like everything else in industry,...
View ArticleLife At Pinnacle College – A Student’s Perspective
What is Pinnacle College? Well, Pinnacle College is a school for recording engineers and students who want to learn audio production for film, games, television and more. Founded in 1972(formerly known...
View ArticleDigital Recording Vs. Analog Recording – Which One is Better?
For many years there have been discussions, articles, blogs and even fights about what is a better medium to record and mix to and from, Digital or Analog? Each one has its pros and cons, but what it...
View ArticleProcessing Tracks When Recording – Deciding When To Do So
“Should I record my tracks with or without processing?” This is a frequent question among new recording engineers and the answer isn’t really a definitive yes or no. The real answer is that it’s really...
View ArticleBuilding Better Backgrounds for TV or Movies
What many people don’t know is that the only thing that’s actually recorded by the production sound team during filming is the dialog from the actors. This means that most of what you hear in TV and...
View ArticleMixing with a Real Time Analyzer (RTA)
RTA stands for Real Time Analyzer and is used to read the frequency response of anything including general room tone. It is used most frequently in acoustics applications and favored by live sound...
View ArticleBuilding Better Backgrounds for TV or Movies – Part 2
If you haven’t read Part I yet, you can find it here… Picking out the sounds for your background is, of course, the fun part but you have to know how to place these sounds into a session and place …...
View ArticleRecording Studio Gear Care 101
As Recording Engineers we tend to have a moderate amount of gear. We may not all have large format consoles but we will definitely have preamps, mics and other important pieces as part of our recording...
View ArticlePinnacle College Chief Academic Officer at GDC
Eitan Teomi to be Panelist at GDC Industry’s Top Event for Game Developers If you have the chance to be in the San Francisco Bay area in later this month, , be sure to get over to the Game Developers...
View ArticleUnderstanding Microphone Polar Patterns
Before reading this blog, remember that what we do as Engineers is as much art as it is science. There is no wrong or right way to get a sound as long as you’re getting the sound you want without …...
View ArticleCommon Questions about Using a Limiter when Mixing
A common question that is often asked by new mixing engineers and beginners in the field is, “should I mix into a limiter?” The answer is no. The reason being is that you won’t actually know that...
View ArticleMicrophone Care: Keep it Tidy!
Microphone care is something new students seeking to attend an audio recording school need to understand and something every engineer can use a refresher on now and then as we all get a little sloppy...
View ArticleHere’s How Hard FX Happen – Part I
When someone who doesn’t work with sound effects, or sound design, hears that you do sound effects for TV and Movies they immediately think of what we call, Hard FX. There are three main fathoms of...
View ArticleHere’s How Hard FX Happen – Part II
Building a sound effect to a picture takes patience as well, but once you get the hang of the quick keys and the workflow of the DAW, you can speed this part up quite a bit! Using the nudge function …...
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Microphone Set-ups for Recording Winds, Horns and More
So you need to track some horns or woodwinds? This is a task that isn’t as hard to do as it sounds. The challenge comes in recording a few at a time or a more orchestral type session. Recording one …...
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Really Rocking Re-Recoding Workflow – Part I
The process of Re-Recording is the professional term for mixing sound for picture. This is where all the editing has been done, all the sounds has been provided, all is already cut, clean, and ready...
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Really Rocking Re-Recording Workflow – Part II
In the professional realm of audio for picture there are usually at least two mixers on every show: the Dialog and Music Mixer, and the FX Mixer who handles all the foley, hard FX, and the BG’s. On a...
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Really Rocking Re-Recording Workflow – Part III
Finally, we’ve made it to Part III of this 3 part blog series. In case you’ve missed the other posts, please feel free to catch up on Part I and Part II before reading further. The next phase in the …...
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Dissecting the Down & Dirty of Dialog Editing
Dialog is by far one of the most import parts of a movie in the post production stage. What many people don’t know is that when a movie is being filmed the only thing that the production sound crew is...
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