BACKDOWN Department

Recording Techniques

Stories filed under Recording Techniques from BACKDOWN Magazine.

Pitch correction has become so common that the meaningful question is no longer whether a vocal was tuned. It is whether the listener notic...

Stacked vocals can make a hook feel cinematic or make it sound like twenty unrelated people arrived at the microphone. The difference is ra...

When a vocal sounds expensive, listeners tend to credit the microphone. Engineers are more likely to ask where the microphone was placed. A...