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NAMM 2020 Giveaway
What’s New at NAMM 2020!
Happy New Year!
Audio Test Kitchen
Genelec GLM 3 Calibration Software Demo
Build a Home Studio for under $5,000 | Sweetwater Wishlist Challenge
What’s an Acceptable Amount of Drum Mic Bleed | FAQ Friday
Puigchild Studio Tour with Jack Joseph Puig
Testing: 12345 – The TG Console and the Abbey Road Album
Fifty years. It seems like yesterday. Fifty years ago, The Beatles’ Abbey Road was released to the world. One other album would follow, but we’d all learn soon enough that this one was truly their swan song, and one that…
What Inspires Me: J.J. Blair (Johnny Cash, The Who, Rod Stewart)
In phase vs out of phase | FAQ Friday
Recording Live to Vinyl with Reid Shippen & Pete Lyman
Room Calibration at Echo Bar Studios (The Moving Mic Method)
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…
What’s New at Summer NAMM 2019
How to get better vocal sound- Summer NAMM 2019
John Lennon’s “How Do You Sleep?”: Inside the Song w/ Jack Douglas
This week we’re back again with a very dear friend and mentor, Mr. Jack Douglas! Jack and I have spent countless hours working together over the years—even as much as 9 months at a time while we were doing an…
From Lyrics to Mixdown: How to Record a Song
As producers, engineers, and songwriters, we sometimes struggle to transpose the sounds and ideas in our heads to “tape.” We may have all the tools at our disposal to make great music—quality instruments, microphones, all the fixings of a home…
Tom Petty’s “Don’t Do Me Like That”: Inside the Song w/ Shelly Yakus
I recently sat down with my dear friend and mentor Shelly Yakus to talk about his experience recording some of the most iconic songs of all time. A couple weeks back we visited the multitrack from Blue Oyster Cult’s “(Don’t…
Do You Need an Audio Engineering Degree?
Let’s dive straight in. Do you need an audio engineering degree to become an engineer? No. Traditionally, great engineers have learned by doing—starting as an intern in a studio and being mentored by peers to develop their skills. The professional…
Recording a Full Band with a $99 Mic (Blue Ember)
Andrew Scheps: GRAMMY-Winning, Multi-Platinum Engineer/Producer
Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun”: Inside the Song with Michael Beinhorn
Blue Oyster Cult’s “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper”: Inside the Song with Shelly Yakus
I recently sat down with my dear friend Shelly Yakus to talk about his experience recording one of the most iconic guitar riffs of all time! Shelly has had a phenomenal career. Not only is he a renowned producer and…
Produce Like A Pro Remix Contest with Michael Wynne from In the Mix
5 Tips to Get You Creating Music
MixerFace Mobile Recording Interface Demo & Giveaway
Home Studio Ideas: Essential Equipment & Considerations
For aspiring musicians, engineers, and producers, the home studio space is a prerequisite. It’s where you’ll spend countless hours writing songs, recording, mixing, and tinkering! Today, the home recording set-up doesn’t have to cost a fortune—there are many affordable ways…
FAQ Friday NAMM Edition Part 2 | FAQ Friday
Massive NAMM 2019 Giveaway!
What’s New at NAMM 2019
Happy New Year!
How to Tune Vocals
Vocal tuning can really be as simple or as complex as you’d like it to be. Real-time pitch correction with plugins like Auto-Tune or Waves Real-Time is very effective, especially when working with a solid vocalist. In these instances, you…
Al Schmitt: The Most Successful Engineer of All Time
Al Schmitt is a recording engineer and and producer. At 88 years old, with a career spanning 7 decades, Schmitt has won 23 Grammy Awards and recorded/produced over 150 gold and platinum albums. Needless to say, he is the most…
6 Vocal Recording Tips
Roswell Colares Microphone Review & Giveaway
Real Gear vs. Plugins | FAQ Friday
SM57 Alternative? Lewitt MTP 440 DM Demo & Giveaway
Recording Vocals in Your Home Studio
From a logistics standpoint, recording vocals in your home studio seems like one of the easiest things to do. It’s a single microphone, and an artist and engineer can simply track with headphones, together in the same room, with no…
Sonarworks Reference 4 Studio Edition Review and Setup
Recording a full band with a $149 mic (LCT 240 Pro)
Hi! My name is Gordon McNeil! (Musician, Producer, Mixer, Label Owner)
Hi! I’m Gordon McNeil! In 2014, I was touring with the world’s leading Queen Tribute band “One Night Of Queen” fronted by Gary Mullen (winner of TV show Stars In Their Eyes) It was touring pretty much for a full…
Classic studio techniques – Getting the Beatles “Pepper”-era bass
Lewitt LCT 640 TS Demo & Giveaway
Top Microphone Preamps On (and Off!) a Budget
Microphone preamps are the secondary devices in the signal path after the mics themselves. Generally speaking, microphone signals are well below nominal operating level. Preamps amplify these quiet signals to line level, which is the “standard” operating level of recording…
Should you use a USB Mic? | FAQ Friday
The biggest factor that influences acoustic guitar sound | FAQ Friday
Cloudlifter Mic Activator Demo & Giveaway
How to Mix Music Using 5 Simple Elements
Mixing music requires both technical ability and the creativity to try things that would make a song compelling and interesting to listeners. Mix engineers firstly possess the technical knowledge of audio signal flow, DAW and/or console operation, and how to…
Recording Acoustic Guitar 101
One of my first videos on YouTube was called “Recording Acoustic Guitar,” and ever since then I frequently get asked to talk in more detail about recording acoustic guitar. In today’s video, we’re going to be a lot more thorough…