The Audio Blog

(or, a tale of gain, faders and plugins output controls) Once upon a time, mixing was something done on large and uber-expensive...

It's pretty common when recording (or mixing) to add a high pass filter (aka low cut) to every track, with the common exception of kick...

You've made your first mix. It was exciting, interesting, your learnt a lot and you're very happy. Perhaps you even have published it on...

Just the other day, chatting with a friend on a video meet (pandemic-style), he came up saying that the Shure SM 7B is a great mic for...

(note: if you're just interested in downloading the scramble utility, go here) Is a microphone better than another? Is a interface better...

This has got to be one of the most common discussions about mixing. Most beginners are convinced that you cannot make a proper mix unless...

A plaice is, apparently a large edible marine flatfish of Western European waters. Can't say I knew that, and this being The Audio Blog,...

In audio circles, it is an article of faith that you cannot judge a microphones by its specs or frequency response graphs, but you have...

If you read the post about how average LUFS are irrelevant to you as a mixing engineer, you may remember that I closed with the promise...

Take any audio forum or Facebook group, or even a conversation at a pub among audio-interested people, and sooner or later someone will...

As we all know, these days going to a studio with a proper control room and recording engineer has become more and more unusual. ...

Well, ok - they are relevant, but not in the sense you might think. There are a lot of people (very few of whom are mastering engineers)...

Ok, my attempt to a Clitonian presidential slogan is perhaps not the best, but after reading the n-th question about sound proofing, I...

This short post originates from a chat I had with a friend a few days ago, as I realized the reason he was struggling a bit was because...

Ok, there's gazillion excellent videos and pages on the subject, but this question appears quite often in lots of places so I thought I'd...

For some reason, I've recently discussed audio clicks and other kind of distortion many times with both physical and virtual friends -...

This is another question that pops up every now and then in both online and real world conversations, so I thought it was a good subject...

Studios are fun. They usually have nice and comfy interiors, nice people (if the people ain't nice, the studio's soon out of business),...

If you've read a little of this blog, you know that the quality of a recording result depends critically from the acoustic properties of...

You've just finished a mix. You've been sweating hours - no, days - until it's just so. Your levels are good, you've tested everywhere...