Knowing the tempo of a track you’ll be working on will make your life a lot easier! It will dramatically speed up the editing process later on and automatically keep all of your time based effects (delay anyone here?) perfectly in sync. Let’s take a brief look today at the fastest and easiest way I …

If you read the advices I’m sharing with my free eBook “The Recording Roadmap”, then you know you should set your recording levels by keeping them around -18dBFS on average, with peaks jumping a bit higher. That’s one of the most important steps to consider when setting everything up for recording! But… The problem is that the meters …

Unless you are about to invite all of your audience inside your studio to listen to your music, then you’ll need your mix to sound good on the widest range of audio devices as possible, so that everyone can enjoy it, no matter the device they’ll use. Some time ago, I wrote about that super helpful reality check I …

With modern computers, virtual instruments have become more and more valuable and important, especially for all the home studio guys like us, so it’s important to know how to deal with them. Today’s post is dedicated to answering one of my readers, Josh, who asked me a question concerning that subject. Here’s what he wrote to me: …

Some time ago, we talked about how you can jump into recording with your first studio microphone. Now it’s time to spend some words on another essential piece of equipment that will let you connect that microphone somehow and carry all of your awesome sounds inside your computer! A cable? You’ll probably need that too, but no. Unfortunately, that’s not …

If you’ve been a Pro Tools user for a while, then you’ll probably know about all the good plugins that come bundled with the DAW. The DigiRack and the AIR bundles alone are fantastic and will give you all the tools you need to craft a superb sounding mix! However, there’s a useful tool that’s missing… A …