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We are nuts about audio recording. Home Brew Audio is where we hang out and think up really cool stuff to tell you about. Learn audio recording from the ground-up and start with a budget of zero dollars!

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How to use a new type of acoustic foam to stop fighting your room and start treating it like an asset, a partner, when your record audio at home. http://www.homebrewaudio.com/improve-quality-audio-record-home-tip-6/ 

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This week 5 in our series of videos and posts showing you how to get more professional sounding audio from your home recording studio. Today we finally talk about microphones!

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Here is what to do if your pop-filter was not enough to prevent some unprofessional-sounding p-pops from getting into your vocal recording.

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More great tips on how to make your home recordings sound professional without having to buy or build anything.

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Tip #2 showing you how to improve the quality of your voice recordings if you record in a home studio set up like most of us - in a converted bedroom. Here's another way to combat that echo-y "room sound" and make your voice sound much more professional without having to buy or build anything.

Improve The Quality Of The Audio You Record At Home – Tip 2

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Here is tip #1 (in a new weekly series) showing you how to make your voice recordings - whether for music, voice-overs, podcasts, or videos - sound more professional when recorded at home.

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What we can learn about mixing music from the Beatles experiments when stereo was new. It's pretty whacky, the things they did.

http://www.homebrewaudio.com/what-the-beatles-can-teach-us-about-mixing-music/

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You can still order audio recording gear and have it by Christmas! B&H is offering free overnight shipping on 114 items until 4pm EST tonight (Dec 23rd) http://www.homebrewaudio.com/last-minute-audio-gear-christmas-free-overnight-shipping/

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Here is a version of "Do You Hear What I Hear" (lyrics by Noël Regney and music by Gloria Shayne Baker) that is a bit different.

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Here is how they create the Dalek voice on Doctor Who - and also, how you can do it too! Have a great Doctor Who week to celebrate the 50th Anniversary. http://www.homebrewaudio.com/doctor-dalek-voice/

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Wanna know what microphone Austin Mahone was using in the McDonald's TV ad? http://www.homebrewaudio.com/?p=15996

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Record your own scary halloween sounds! Here are 3 super cool ways to create some awesome and spooky sounds to scare the kids on Halloween. http://www.homebrewaudio.com/tips-for-recording-your-own-spooky-audio-to-scare-the-kids-on-halloween/

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How you can create that creepy, ghostly reverse reverb vocal effect. http://www.homebrewaudio.com/the-reverse-reverb-effect-for-creepiness/

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DJs: Duck Your Way To Cool Electronic Dance Music

There is a technique in audio recording called "ducking" that is very useful for a bunch of different things. But one cool thing is creating a pulsing synth (or any instrument) sound, which is handy for electronic dance music (EDM). You can do ducking with any multitrack audio software.

Here is how you can do it with Reaper and Sonar:

Use Ducking For Electronic Dance Music Effect

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Music Recording: Using A Compressor to Add Punch To Your Drums

Using compression to add punch and power to drums - http://www.homebrewaudio.com/?p=15787 #homerecording

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Victoria Azarenka's Headphones

Today Victoria Azarenka plays (again) in the US Open tennis finals against (again) Serena Williams. Will she wear the same red headphones before the match as she did last year? Here is what they are, if you're interested: http://www.homebrewaudio.com/?p=15206

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What Is The Large Microphone US Open Umpires Are Using?

If you've been watching the US Open tennis, you might have noticed the large - even huge - microphones being used by the chair umpires. I searched high and low to figure out what they were. Then finally I figured it out! I put all the details in my post here: http://www.homebrewaudio.com/microphone-used-by-chair-umpire-at-us-open-tennis-tournament/