November - 2017

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How to Use Drum Samples to Make Your Drum Recordings Sound Better

Touring is hard work. You spend hours on the road, watching the pavement pass by. You go to bed when the sun comes up, and wake up as it...

Pro Tools is a complicated piece of software. It can be almost overwhelming, especially when you’re first starting out. Often, you can...

When we began our Home Recording Basics series, we were just setting up the room, aligning our monitors and affixing acoustic treatments....

Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours is a monument to excess; fueled by enormous budgets, sleepless nights and mountains of cocaine. Earlier this...

Last week’s installment of Home Recording Basics covered low-end mixing for basses, synths, and samples. Next, we’re moving on to...

Modern engineers are spoiled. We have keyboard shortcuts for making edits, crossfading and even quantizing. But back when engineers still...

Freelancing is part of being an audio engineer. If you’re working in live sound, you may be working for a specific venue and using their...

The recording industry is in a weird place right now. For years, we coveted analog hardware. Walking into a proper studio felt like...

Patchbays can be intimidating. It almost feels like you’re Jack Bauer disarming a bomb. There are dozens of different cables. Everything...