Category: Music Production

Audio Tip of the Week from Staff Engineer & Instructor Colin Heldt – File Management

With the Graduation listening party and BBQ all occurring simultaneously last Friday – we didn’t get to post this audio tip of the week. The day was worth it though. The graduates from our early spring class all did such a great job and we feel they have bright futures ahead. Many will be moving […]

Music Production Student at Dark Horse Institute – “Mikey” Gilmor

When I was about 14 years old I began to get into recording audio. I had a 7 channel mixer and an old dual cassette deck recorder that I recorded my personal guitar tracks with. Shortly after that I upgraded to an old laptop and downloaded Audacity for free and thought it was the coolest […]

DHI Staff Audio Engineer and Instructor Colin Heldt Shares Simple…But Important Advice

Hey guys. Honestly – Colin is freakishly good as an Engineer…but doesn’t really like being in the spotlight so I’m tickled that we’ve gotten him to share the next 4-5 weeks worth of audio tips with us. Thanks Colin! I’ve got to mention for a moment here at the risk of embarrassing them that our […]

Dave Hagen – Final Audio Engineering Project- Starts with Mic Placement

Today we begin our final project phase 1. This means that we’re starting to track the rock band Lazar-Lazar and that this morning our students were up to their elbows in the process of session set up…including of course a heavy dose of mic placement! SOOO important. Please check out this video for more thoughts […]

DHI Staff Audio Engineer/Instructor Dave Hagen – Talking Reference Speakers

Fantastic week here at Dark Horse. A beautiful sounding choir from Uganda just stopped in to record for the morning…lots of stunning music from their homeland…mostly acappella. We’ll post a bit of video soon from their session. Here is Dave Hagen’s Audio Tip of the Week –

A Guest Student Blog Entry, from Audio Engineering Student, Steven Lance.

And here is a video and guest blog from our student Steven Lance. Music in the background on the video by “Chasing Summer! Enjoy! “Having been in music for multiple years, I didn’t want to wait any longer for my ideas and dreams to come true. Education was going to be the cornerstone of what […]

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