StudioDocs are those who try to
document any acoustic or optic phenomenon
with audio and/or video equipment.

The limits to artistic work are fluent and it cannot always be separated precisely. See also the other types of audio or video arts.

On this site we want to give you some hints from

• how to get a recording done at all to
• how to get some sophisticated stuff for improved recordings...

So let´s put up a list of minimal equipment:

Audio:

Recording

• stereo microphone
  • ideal is an artificial head microphone.
    You just put it in the position where you would like to sit and listen live.
    It records the full space surround feeling (with only this one mic) when listened to with headphones!
    The old ones hard to find and no more sold by Sennheiser did cost about 350 €.
    The actual one bei Neumann in Berlin. Ask your dealer the price might be around 6.000 €...
  • any other good stereo microphone must be enough.
    Ask your dealer if it fulfills the characteristics for the kind of sounds you want to record.
    Classical music requires different mics than pop....
• Then find the right position for the mic:
  Go there with your head and listen if the sound of the instrument is too close (without a little room echo)
  or too far (without direct "attack" of the sound).
  Find a good direct present sound position and put the mic there if the circumstances allow this.
• think of a good (and sometimes 3 meters high) stative for the mic.
• depending on your mic you will need a pre-amplifier for the mic before the signal gets to your audio recording equipment or not.
• Audio recording equipment: You want to be sure? Then take SONY. But others do a good job, too.
  We worked with the SONY portable DAT walkman (which is small enough for your pocket) and the Sennheiser microphone:
  A mini digital studio!
• If you ever have enough money to buy two equipments you will do well to run them parallel for security backup reasons.
  I have experienced situations where we urgently needed that! (The more musicians involved, the more expensive to re-record all!)
• Good tape material TDK or SONY no longer than 90 minutes, better switch tape.
• Do not save seconds before begin (you might miss the first notes!) and after end (applause!
  When cutting you can decide if you want it or not. If you haven´t recorded it you cannot decide any more...)

Cutting and editing

How to get the data into your computer?

It is amazing that it always becomes simpler!
The best is to have an optical or digital input into the computer with a firewire or a digital soundcard.

I also made a workaround:
sent it from SONY DAT Walkman to the optical input of the SONY MD MIniDisc deck
where the signal of 48 MHz was transformed to the CD formate 44,1 MHz.
From there it was transmitted to a Philips CD Recorder and recorded on a music CD.
This I could put into the CD drive of my PC.

Resume of that: It is very useful to have the recording directly done in the CD formate with 44,1 MHz.

With which software work on the data?

I did it with Cakewalk professional. I got it from the same General Importer as for the professional notation software FINALE.
It is used by many professional studios and contains all MIDI and sound features you can imagine.
You get a good manual and quickly get into it.

You can´t get it faster than ordering it right here in the Section Special

View of recordings of music doctors

This is the higly professional Studio Software which is being used by many professional studios:

At least there are a few things for FREE!

• For example the CD-Ex freeware!
  To extract WAV files from any CD
  • either to WAV files
  • or to mp3 files!
    
  • Download from: http://www.cdex.n3.net,
    go to downlad and take it for free
    in english, spanish, german and french!
    
    

1) Wolfgang Ellenberger recorded...

...as one of several productions a complete cycle of ALL Mozart violin sonatas with Prof. Thomas Goldschmidt, Violin and Norman Shetler, piano
and created a CD with "THE BEST OF THIS CYCLE" with total live recordings! A real joy to listen to this vivid interpretation of international masters
of their art. Norman Shetler and Thomas Goldschmidt are presented in the CCC web. You get the CD from our DocCD-Order-List form.

2) Jan Pascal Stieber is GuitarDoc and StudioDoc

Jan Pascal Stieber is musician and producer. In the beginning of this year (2006) he became his own boss. In the small town www.Buchen.de the operation assistant nurse made up his own audio studio although the music business is a tough market. 

Stieber grew up with music in his school time in the benedictinian monastery Münsterschwarzach and played piano, guitar and percussion, later took singing lessons. After this he decided for a non-musical profession: Closing a three year education in Heidelberg and a two year postgraduate study as operation specialist he became nurse and assisted at operations in children´s heart surgery.

When a child died during an operation he got a psychosomatic illness and finally had to stop working as nurse. It became clear that he could not continue this work in medicine so he took a course in economy as the basis for his actual activity. 

The name of his studio is Vision in music and Stieber is open to any style of music though his own preferences are classical and Jazz. All his services are done by himself: He has a unique mobile studio in a van and after recording on site he can make the mix in his acoustically optimized studio. He processes entire CD productions including the GEMA licenses and the distribution. There are options for every price level in his catalogue.

His target is expansion - his interest is in TV productions. He is teaching an assistant for "Mediengestalter Bild und Ton" (audio-video-media) and he has an official acknoledgment as teacher. By doing this hegains time for aquisition of clients and organisation of events. Meanwhile he has contacts with 200 event managers and 230 producers from radio and TV. This fall he plans to reach the magic number of 200 clients and he prooves his engagement for his job by working 12 to 14 hrs a day.

courtesy of © Fränkische Nachrichten - 19.08.2006

Visit his homepage: www.VisionInMusic.de 

3) Denny Zeitlin is internationally accomplished JazzPianoDoc,
more than that also ComposerDoc, WineDoc, MountainBikeDoc, StudioDoc, FlyFishingDoc

StudioDoc Denny is working on his CD productions in his own studio...

See at his presentation and visit his multi-medial homepage (linked from his presentation), it is a MUST!

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