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Recording Tips Part 3 – Mic Placement

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How to Find the Magical Sweet Spot

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Mic placement can make or break a great take

Author: Paul White, Editor-In-Chief for Sound on Sound and Roland UK Features Team

After vocals, the acoustic guitar is the next most commonly recorded instrument in the home studio, and I have to say that recording using a microphone almost always gives sweeter sounding results than using an under-saddle pickup system. Acoustic guitars sound good recorded over a hard floor, so if yours is carpeted, put down some hardboard, MDF or even a few trays on the surface between the guitar and the mic stand. A reflective wall can help, but you don’t want to let in the room boxiness, so redeploy your duvet so that you have wall, guitar, microphone and then the duvet. More

Recording Tips Part 2 – Recording Vocals

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Practical Advice to Make Your Tracks Sing

Author: Paul White, Editor-In-Chief for Sound on Sound and Roland UK Features Team

The main problems associated with making a great recording can be broken down into two areas — the sounds you record and the way you mix them. Paul White of Sound on Sound explains how this applies to recording vocals. More

Recording Tips Part 1 – Overview

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Make a Release-Quality Recording with Affordable Gear

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Author: Paul White Editor-In-Chief for Sound on Sound and Roland UK Features Team

You can make a release-quality recording using affordable hardware such as one of the BOSS multi-trackers or one of the many excellent computer Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs) such as SONAR. You’ll need decent microphones and reasonably accurate loudspeakers or headphones to judge your efforts, but the quality of entry level mics and speakers is now surprisingly good too. Now, the main problems associated with making a great recording can be broken down into two areas — the sounds you record and the way you mix them. Putting the mics in the right place and not allowing your recording meters to bang into the red are also important factors but are relatively easy to deal with as there’s lots of information around pertaining to mic’ing, not least in the back issues section of the Sound On Sound web site. Visit soundonsound.com for additional recording tips. More

How to Sing Like the Pros

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A Free Webinar for Singers & Vocal Coaches

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Learn how to sing with Judith Hill and Romeo Johnson – Tune in to the Live Webinar

Singers, voice coaches, choir directors — tune-in to your computer, tablet or smartphone on Tuesday, Aug 13 at 3:00 PM PDT for a free online vocal webinar with celebrity voice coach Romeo Johnson and singer/songwriter Judith Hill. If you’re a singer or know one, make sure to take advantage of this incredible opportunity to learn how these artists approach their craft and what they recommend for singing success. They’ll even perform together and show how Roland and BOSS play a role in their current work. Plus, feel free to ask them questions in real time! More

Give Your Singing Tone Control with the VE-5

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Your Sound Independent of the Mix Engineer

For singers, the question is: how do I get my sound the way I want it and under my own control? In almost every vocal situation, someone other than the singer is controlling the effects, the reverbs, and the levels. Everyone else in the band gets to create their own tone: guitar and bass with amps and pedals, keyboards have pretty much everything built in and even drummers use their own gear: cymbals they selected, drums tuned the way they want, etc. But the singer? No-until now. BOSS has made a very trick device called a VE-5 Vocal Performer that finally gives singers total control over their own sound. More

Product Support for Your Roland Gear

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Four Ways to Get Answers from Our Gear Pros

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“We have the gear to answer your questions.” -Product Support

It happens to all of us…it’s past 10:00 p.m. on a Saturday, and you are stumped as to how to work a particular feature on your Roland product. Normally, you’d have to wait to call product support until Monday. Obviously, this is not very helpful if the band is waiting for you to get things together for the night’s gig! More

Roland Recording Class With Guitar Center

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Watch, Learn & Ask Questions

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Roland Recording Class – STUDIO-CAPTURE

On June 11, at 3:00 p.m. PST Roland clinician and recording artist, Brandon Ryan, and Guitar Center invite you to sit in the Roland recording class. Portable recording solutions for singer-songwriters and live recording using the latest Roland gear are both on the agenda. Topics will include everything from monitoring and mixing, to connecting mics and instruments to the I/O, to production techniques that even novices can master using SONAR’s fast and fluid ProChannel. More

Vocal Coach Romeo Johnson: How to Audition for NBC’s The Voice

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Want to be on The Voice? Watch this! Romeo Johnson is an acclaimed musician, vocalist and vocal coach. He’s worked with Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, Diddy, Queen Latifah and countless others. He is presently one of the selection coaches for NBC’s The Voice. Romeo explains the audition process and what it takes to make it onto the show.

Roland US is an official sponsor of NBC’s The Voice providing all the electronic keyboards, electronic drums, percussion and digital pianos to the show.

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