• Piano recording techniques

    Piano recording techniques

    It’s very hard to record a convincing piano sound with bedroom-studio equipment, but still possible. I will show you some techniques I tried while recording my own videosongs. Please note, I’m not an audio engineer, this is just my musician experience. You don’t need expensive microphones to get a good result, my equipment for the tests was relatively cheap considering each [...]

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  • Tutorial: Edit a videoSong in Final Cut Pro X

    Tutorial: Edit a videoSong in Final Cut Pro X

    The new version of Final Cut Pro looks pretty cool and a looooot more user friendly than the previous one. Here is a tutorial  for the editing with Final Cut Pro X… Thanks to Isaac Kolding

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  • Drum Recording Techniques

    Drum Recording Techniques

    In this article i’m going to explain my approach to recording drums. First i will explain the 2 basic drum microphone techniques using minimal microphones. Second i will explain the more advanced parts of the process and how to approach adding effects such as equalization, compression, and reverb, to add musicality to your track instead of working against it. 2 [...]

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  • Me, myself and I… and my clones

    Me, myself and I… and my clones

    In my latest videosong (shameless product placement :P) I cloned myself to play as a band in the same room. Here is the “how to” for this trick. This is one very simple special effect. It doesn’t require a green screen, or crazy editing techniques – just make sure you follow those three simple rules: 1/ The camera must be [...]

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