Better Concert Guitar Recordings – Microphone Comparison
Is it worth recording concert guitars in stereo? And which microphone sounds best? In this video, HOFA CEO Jochen Sachse compares microphones from Sennheiser, Beyerdynamic, Rode and Shure.
How To Use Gated Reverb
Many sound examples demonstrate the impressive possibilities of this effect sound for your mixes.
Gated Reverb – the Story Behind the Retro Classic
Find out how the legendary reverb sound was developed and in which productions it has successfully been used.
Make Vocals Cut Through Every Mix
Sometimes, a vocal mix needs exactly this plug-in trick to make your production sound perfect.
The HOFA-College Story
If you’re interested in finding out how we came to develop distance learning audio engineering courses at HOFA College, I’d like to share the story with you here. As one of the two founders, I was there from the beginning, so I know quite a bit about it. 1/9 1988: Founding of HOFA-Studios The first […]
Thank Goodness for Broken Guitars
What a happy coincidence that in the nineteen-seventies my father’s guitar got a gigantic crack. So, this worthless guitar was handed over to me – and suddenly I was always busy. I never became an outstanding guitarist, but I had the broken thing in my hands every day, eventually bought something of more value, and […]
Does Producing Music Make You More Intelligent?
New, fascinating research results In 2015, a team of scientists from the University of Helsinki was able to verify higher intelligence, improved language skills and a more powerful memory among musicians. The ability to learn and remember was significantly better in the musically educated participants than in the control group with no musical training. The […]
Audio Engineering – Which Education Is The Right One?
Successful learning The adequate education and training in audio engineering and music production can be the key to your success. Because of the extensive range of audio engineering topics, a merely autodidactic approach, such as Internet research and YouTube videos, will not really get you anywhere. In fact, this is the first criterion when selecting […]
Imagine that your mix is a house …
… with three floors and various windows. All the instruments and vocals of your mix are the inhabitants of this large house, and the three floors represent low (ground floor), mid (1st floor) and high frequencies (2nd floor). Of course, the house inhabitants have their individual characteristics and some may have quirks.There are loud, quiet, […]
