Welcome to Burning Grooves
This is a site for tech-heads and musicians to get together and communicate, collaborate and share ideas and techniques.
Over the next few months we will be publishing interviews with people in the music business such as studio and record label owners, signed artists and bands, club owners and DJs to provide you with an insight into the workings of the music business. Our regular writers will be publishing articles on a wide range of topics from the technical (How to wire up a patchbay etc.), equipment reviews and buying guides (buy Behringer or save up?) to the business and networking side (do you need a manager?, How to set up a record label).
Want advice on your latest demo? Want to find a new band member? Post it in the Burning Grooves Forum.
We are currently looking for writers to supply articles, so if you have any recording tips, equipment reviews or relevent articles and you want to see your name up in lights (well, up in HTML…) send us an email to articles [at] burninggrooves [dot] com.
Polar Patterns Explained
by Jon Maskrey
786 days ago
What are those strange and cryptic pictures on my microphone? One of them looks like a mushroom…. This article is all about microphone polar patterns – what are they? Why have different patterns? Which one should I use? All will be revealed…
Where do microphones pick up from?
Read more.....Patchbays explained - Part 3
by Jon Maskrey
800 days ago
In part 1 and part 2 we explored what patchbays are and the different ways in which they can be configured. In this final instalment we are going to look at the ways various items of equipment can be integrated into a patchbay.
As discussed in part 2, patchbays can be configured to automatically send the signal from the top row to the bottom row. This is so the patchbay can be set up to route commonly linked equipment to each other so you don’t need to manually patch them in together. This means that you have to plan your patchbay so that the outputs are on the top row and the inputs are on the bottom.
Read more.....Introduction to Dynamic and Condenser Microphones
by Jon Maskrey
805 days ago
This article is a basic introduction to the workings and uses of two of the most popular types of microphone – the dynamic and the condenser.
What are microphones?
Microphones are basically transducers – that is an object that changes one form of energy into another. Just as a light bulb changes electrical energy into heat and light, a microphone changes differences in air pressure (acoustic energy) into electrical energy (Alternating Current) that can be recorded.
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