My Take on Music Recording with Doug Fearn
Doug Fearn draws on his 50+ years as a recording engineer, record producer, studio owner, and pro audio equipment designer to explain the art and science of recording for the audiophile, music lover, and people in the music recording industry.
Podcasting since 2020 • 110 episodes
My Take on Music Recording with Doug Fearn
Latest Episodes
What Makes a Good Engineer?
What makes a good engineer? There are many skills required, both technical and interpersonal. In this short episode I talk about some of those skills and how they apply to a recording session.
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Season 1
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Episode 110
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16:27
Taylor Larson of MixWave
Creating software plugin versions of actual hardware is challenging. Acustica did a superb job of creating a plugin version of the D.W. Fearn VT-5 Stereo Equalizer several years ago, called Ruby. And now MixWave has done the same for the VT-7 C...
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Season 1
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Episode 109
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54:47
Assistant Engineers
Recording sessions can be technologically complex. There are mics to set up, cables to run, headphones to deploy, maybe patching in the control room, and software and hardware to configure. It is a lot for one person to handle.The job of...
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Season 1
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Episode 108
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30:33
Bleed Isn't Always a Bad Thing
Since the advent of multitrack recording, the goal of most engineers has been to keep the sound of every instrument totally isolated from all the others. That makes our job much easier, since we can adjust the mix of every track as needed, and ...
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Season 1
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Episode 107
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25:37
Spring Birds: How I recorded birds in the woods in DSD
I live and work in the woods, surrounded by wildlife. There are many species of birds and in the spring their songs are pretty amazing. Over the years, I have thought about recording those birds, but the background noise level was a problem. Al...
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Season 1
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Episode 106
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29:59
