If you’ve ever heard about dithering audio but aren’t totally sure what it means, you’re not alone! Dither is often applied as part of processing digital audio. For instance, it’s one of the final steps in mastering audio for CD.…
In phase vs out of phase | FAQ Friday
Free Multitracks: Jay Clifford’s “Paralyze”
Butch Walker: Songwriter & Record Producer | Studio Tour & Interview
Jellyfish’s ‘Bellybutton’: Inside the Album with Roger Joseph Manning Jr.
Hole’s “Celebrity Skin”: Inside the Song with Michael Beinhorn
The Best Amp Simulator Hardware and Plugins
There are a lot of benefits to going the amp simulator route as a guitarist. Cost and versatility are both huge advantages over real amps, because modelers can give you access to hundreds of different heads, cabinet, and effects sims…
The Benefits of Recording a Scratch Track
A scratch track is a rough playthrough of a song, or section of a song, that acts as a guide while recording other instruments. It’s usually just a couple instruments, like a rhythm guitar and vocal playing along to a…
Recording Metal Guitars with David Gnozzi
Roger Joseph Manning Jr: Blink-182, Beck, Paramore, Marianas Trench
PhantomFocus System: Studio Tour with Carl Tatz
Mixing Basics: Vocal Compression
John Lennon & Yoko Ono’s ‘Double Fantasy’: Inside the Album w/ Jack Douglas
The Best Drum VSTs for Any Budget
The best drum VSTs we’ve gathered run the gamut between $89 all the way up to $700! Thankfully, this means there’s a variety of choices to suit any budget. Of course, there are free options as well so you can…
How to Mix Vocals Like a Pro
We’ve all struggled with mixing vocals at some point! It’s easy to feel frustrated when we just can’t seem to get it right, especially because vocals are so important for the listener. Fortunately, there are some standard as well as…
In the Box or Hybrid: How do I prefer to mix? | FAQ Friday
Piper Payne: Mastering Engineer and Vinyl Technologist
Recording Live to Vinyl with Reid Shippen & Pete Lyman
Tony Buchen Interview & Studio Tour
Augustana’s “Sweet and Low”: Inside the Song with Warren Huart
David Gilmour’s Guitars Fetch $21,500,000 at Auction to Fight Climate Change
In what will most certainly go down as one of the most historic instrument collections of all time, 120 of David Gilmour’s guitars were auctioned this week at Christie’s in New York City. All of the proceeds from the auction will…
How to Use a Compressor – Intermediate Techniques
We’ve talked a lot about how to use a compressor in various stages of the recording and mixing processes. The best way to learn is to get your hands dirty, which you’ll be able to do with some of these…
Make your home studio sound like Abbey Road Studio 3
Vance Powell: Multi GRAMMY Winning Engineer, Mixer, & Producer
Room Calibration at Echo Bar Studios (The Moving Mic Method)
3 Guitar Amp Micing Techniques
Audio Test Kitchen Has Revolutionized the Microphone Shootout
We recently met with the fantastic Alex Oana at Gold-Diggers in Los Angeles to check out his rather amazing endeavors with Audio Test Kitchen! Audio Test Kitchen is a free online resource aiming to change the way we audition microphones. They’ve…
How to Do Reverse Reverb in 3 Easy Steps
Reverse reverb, sometimes called reverse echo or reverse regeneration, simply takes the reverb tail of any instrument and reverses it. Creating it is a matter of printing the wet signal of a reversed audio track. Reverse reverb is typically accompanied…
The Top Virtual Amp Sims for Guitarists
A great virtual amp can take your guitar recordings to the next level since not many of us can record a 100-watt tube head at home. There are attenuators, sure, and lots of modern amps are being built with direct…