Acoustic Room Treatment on a Low Budget
What makes a home studio turn from a bedroom setup to a professional one? What do all professional studios have in common? The answer, undeniably so, is...
Home Recording
Mixing While Producing Music: Good or Bad Idea?
With the same DAWs and plug-ins used in both music production and mixing, it is becoming harder to determine just where one process ends and the other...
Pros and Cons: Monitoring Options for Mixing
With all of the potential equipment options for monitoring, along with budget constraints, it can be tough to decide what’s needed in your mixing setup....
Home Recording Tips: When to Record Direct and When to Use a Microphone
When it’s time to lay down an idea or roll a take for a recording, we’re typically faced with a number of choices: Which guitar should you...
10 Home Recording Studio Hacks to Improve Listening
When talking about the most important tools for music production and mixing, we’re likely to think of DAWs, plug-ins, speakers, and MIDI...
Do You Need a Subwoofer to Mix Music?
An experienced engineer can track, mix, and master records with very little—a few plug-ins, good converters, and yes, even a pair of headphones. Listen...
Types of Studio Monitors and Which to Choose for Home Studios
An important decision when designing a home studio for music production, mixing, and mastering is the set of monitors to purchase. Apart from the...
4 Inventive Ways to Use a Bass Guitar in Your Home Recordings
The bass guitar is considered by many to be the backbone of most musical tracks, providing a solid foundation for the rest of a song or arrangement. In a...
5 Tips for Limiting Room Noise in Home Recording
Room noise—who would’ve thought it would be so controversial? Ask any post production engineer, and they’ll tell you it’s vital to communicating the...
Recording Vocals: Tips from GRAMMY-winning Engineer Brian Warwick
Brian Warwick is a New England based recording and mix engineer who has worked on some of the most popular albums, films, TV shows, and video games of the...
How to Record Foley at Home
Ah Foley—the unsung art of creating bespoke sound effects for movies, TV, and other visual media from scratch. In recent years, this practice has...
