Recording Guitars – Silent Recording Options (Part 1) | By Thomas Brett | In our current age of digital recording technology, we now have more options available to us than ever before when it comes to capturing great guitar tones within a home studio environment/budget. Here is an overview of what I consider to be some of the best silent-recording options …
20 Simple Tricks To Make Your Next Mix FREAKIN SWEET (Part 2)
20 Simple Tricks To Make Your Next Mix FREAKIN SWEET (Part 2) | By Thomas Brett | As mix engineers, we sometimes get too caught up in our EQ and compression based decisions during a mix. For this reason we can often fail to notice some of the equally important issues we should be dealing with through alternate means, and in …
Inspiration As The Picture Gets Clearer
Inspiration As The Picture Gets Clearer | By Jesse Cannon | Demos are like fuzzy out of focus pictures; you can hear the broad strokes and main ideas, but details of what a performer is doing are often clouded in the lack of clarity, tightness and refinement of a demo. After all, that’s what makes it a demo and not a final …
Taking a Mix from Good to Great with Spatial Imaging
Taking a Mix from Good to Great with Spatial Imaging | By Joey Sturgis Spatial imaging is a part of mixing that rarely gets talked about directly, and it’s easy to understand why. Who listens to a mix and immediately follows up with “Wow, the spatial imaging in that was insane”? If we could only be so lucky… Instead, we …
Become A Better Audio Engineer By Turning Off Your Phone
Become A Better Audio Engineer By Turning Off Your Phone | By Joel Wanasek Why I turn off my phone on the weekends: It’s Saturday afternoon. You’re supposed to be relaxing. You’re sitting outside, doing something you enjoy with family, friends, or individually, and then something happens… Your phone vibrates. You look at it, knowing you shouldn’t. It starts burning …