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This is an amazing clip from the show “How It Is Made” that shows how a Neumann U87 is made. Check it out!!

What if I told you that you could make amazing sounding music with only 24 tracks? The truth is that you can make great records using only 24 tracks and people have been doing it for years. Since the digital age of recording we have seen DAWS continue to up the track count and now […]

It is always a good practice to listen and even mix your mixes in mono because it can help avoid some very important issues. In Mono you can clearly hear phase issues and if anything is getting lost or unbalanced in volume. The truth is that many times your mixes will be played in mono […]

Just because we have all of these amazing editing and mixing tools at our fingertips today, doesn’t mean we should use them. Over editing or using too many plugins can make your recordings sound processed and fake. So how do you get that natural and organic sound that so many records that we love have. […]

With the amazing amount of new technology that has allowed people to literally make entire records from home, a lot have people have been asking; Why would you record at a large expensive studio, when you can do it at home? This is a question that saddens a lot of audio purists and lovers of […]

Over processing your mix bus is easy to do and can be more harmful than helpful. Whenever you are doing any processing to your entire mix you should take it easy and make subtle changes. Don’t try to fix a mix by processing mix bus. Making big drastic EQ or compression changes that affect how […]

Sometimes the best thing you can do for a session or a mix is take a break. It is easy to lose perspective on a project if you spend countless hours on it; so taking a break to clear your head is a good thing. You should also take a break to give your ears […]

The fact that we can record as many takes and tracks as we have hard drive space these days is amazing, but can become overwhelming. We all have been in a session where we continually record take, after take, after take, trying to get the perfect performance. When the session is over we are always […]

Modern technology has given us some amazing tools for editing and mixing music. We can tune vocals, replace drums, and emulate guitar amps, but that doesn’t mean we can fix everything. It doesn’t matter how expensive your microphone is or what kind of preamp and compressor you have, if you don’t recording a good performance […]

One of the biggest misconceptions in the recording industry is that there is a right and wrong way of doing things. There is no right way. If you find something that works, even if it shouldn’t, go with it and use it. Whether you are tracking or mixing you should be confident in your methods, […]