| By Thomas Brett | Introduction To The Series: What if I told you that whether you’re aware of it or not, there are probably dozens of tedious studio tasks that you’re wasting unnecessary amounts of valuable time on every single day? But it doesn’t have to be that way… Efficient time-management is one of the most crucial things to …
7 Questions With Kurt Ballou
Kurt Ballou (Converge, GodCity Studios) is a musician and producer that need no introduction to fans of heavy music. There are precious few individuals out there that approach similar levels of raw brutality and emotion in their productions. Photo: Jimmy Hubbard If you can give one piece of advice for upcoming engineers what would it be? Always listen with your …
Learn From The Legends – Volume 2: Randy Staub
| By Thomas Brett | Introduction To The Series: Learning How To Learn is one of the most crucial steps you can take towards becoming great at pretty much anything – And what better place to learn than from the minds of people who have actually been doing the job successfully for years? In this ongoing series of Blogs, we’ll …
Mixing MESHUGGAH guitars with Tue Madsen
Sometimes more is actually more You’ll often hear us say that less is more – that if you’ve got a ton of plugins on every channel or super complex signal chains that it’s probably compensating for a mistake you made somewhere else. And while that is generally true (#tbt when I first started out and had like 4 or 5 …
Audio FAQs – Volume 1: Gear Essentials
| By Thomas Brett | Introduction To The Series The world-wide-web is full of people asking questions and others giving answers. The problem is, it’s often difficult to tell which pieces of advice are actually worth listening to… In this ongoing series of Blogs, we’ll answer some of the most frequently asked audio questions from around the internet in an …