My Take on Music Recording with Doug Fearn
My Take on Music Recording with Doug Fearn
Latest Episodes
Basic Electronics for Recording Engineers - Part 4 - Gain Staging
The design of professional recording gear requires knowledge of how to best distribute the necessary gain through multiple internal gain stages. In this episode, I explain how that is done, and how you can use the same principles to achieve the...
Basic Electronics for Recording Engineers - Part 3
This is the third installment in a series on Basic Electronics for Recording Engineers. This episode focuses on equalizers and amplifiers. Why do we call them equalizers? And amplifiers are at the heart of every piece of audio gear, even if we ...
Basic Electronics for Recording Engineers - Part 2
In this second episode of a multi-part series on Basic Electronics for Recording Engineers, I continue with the fundamental principles of electrical and electronic devices, with an emphasis on practical implications. The explanations are simple...
The Weakest Link
The chain of equipment between the recording artist and the listener is long and complex. Every piece of gear, from the microphone to the listener’s speaker or headphones, has the potential to be the weakest link in this chain.In this ep...
Basic Electronics for Recording Engineers - Part 1
Music relies on technology, and music recording is entirely dependent on electronics technology. You don’t need to be electronics engineer to record, but some basic knowledge of electricity and electronics can be useful to any recording enginee...
