Head Room: Tips for Recording in Your Home Music Studio

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Part of the video series: How to Set Up a Home Recording Studio

Summary: Learn how to use the head room in your home recording studio in this free online music production video clip.

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By Tad Donley
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Tad Donley is a 25-year veteran producer, writer, singer, musician and music video creator who owns the popular Pro Sound And Video Recording Studio in Houston, TX.read more

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audioforge said

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on 4/23/2009 That's the beauty of the internet...Any crackhead with a cellphone cam and an AOL account can be an "Expert" P.S. If you want a BIG BOOM, more beans bro, more beans.

jhook1 said

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on 9/7/2008 yo suck @$$ man wow all you have i a lot of $$$$ and no skill lol wow you need to stop making videos!!! ASAP FullClipAudio is so right THIS GUY IS A IDIOT!!!!

on 8/2/2008 No please do not make more. HAHAHAHAHAHA! This guy is an idiot. I have watched every one of his videos and he is so full of misinformation and just plain bullsh#t that its no wonder he can barely for a coherent sentence. WATCH THESE VIDEOS FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY! DO NOT TAKE HIS ADVICE ON ANYTHING!!!

studiochris said

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on 8/2/2008 Actually, Some Floating Point Bus DAWs do sum differently, Pro Tools uses a fixed 48 bit system (From what i can remember) and Nuendo and Cubase run Floating Point 32 0r 64 bit, cant remember off the top of my head, but either way, yeah, this guy is nuts.

newrigel said

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on 8/2/2008 Yeah... smash the -- out of the buss and you won't get that punch just a bunch of mud hehe...
Really though I am very humored at least! This guy's awesome!
But really, mixing ITB you have to really watch your levels to the output buss for sure to get that open and clean sound.

Video Transcript

" I’m Tad Donley and I’m speaking in behalf of Expert Village, about the headroom. You only have a certain amount of headroom with ProTools. If you start pushing a little bit too hard, it starts squawking like a chicken, if you go too low it starts squawking, you have to work within a certain realm, otherwise you get zapped either way, so you psychologically start bringing your headroom down lower and you do not realize it but after about 3-4 months, you got it in this place for you in the small certain limited band, you don’t have this big sound, you don’t have this sound, you can’t get the big sound. I try to get a boom out of the bass drum, in one of my albums, my CD, boom, I try to get that big boom, I could not get a big boom, I paid bucks, and could not get the boom, so, you know, and plus it is just did not sound as good and production did not sound that good, it didn’t come up, I cleaned it up on Nuendo four of the songs of my last CD, Warrior right here, four of the songs of the CD. I went ahead, remixed it and re-did it on Nuendo and now it is clear, clean, strong, big, warm, depth and good, yes."

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