I'm looking into options for my gothic metal band's first proper album release(We're called Curvature, look us up as CurvatureOfficial on most sites if you're interested). Up until this point, we've recorded demos in our rehearsal room, a barn, and I've done the mixing myself, with reasonable, if no...

Thanks for all the input - quite a lot to think about! Part of the problem is that we don't have any control over how the cassettes are produced, as they're done off site, so we have to come up with a reasonably bomb-proof solution. From what I can gather, what we're doing is not unreasonable, excep...

I'm working on a review of recording and production processes for a company that produces audiobooks on CD, MP3 and compact cassette, and I'd appreciate it if someone could shed a little light on the subject of mastering for different formats. At present, on all our output, we apply the standard Pro...

Sorry I haven't been back earlier to say thanks for the replies. All some very good advice, and I think I've narrowed it down to the mic input gain being too high and then being battled downwards with successive items in the chain, rather than being set at a sensible level and then raised if necessa...

I'm recording audiobooks at the moment, and encountering a problem with some readers, specifically female readers, who produce hard glottal stops at the start of words like "I" and "Arthur" and "Oliver". These hard sounds send a big clip through the recording chain and ...

For what it's worth, I've just finished work on my band Vrillion's EP, recorded live in a barn and produced in my little home studio - have a listen at http://www.myspace.com/vrillion . I've been doing this music production thing for a year or so, and I might almost have got it right for this one. O...