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...

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...

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. ...

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...

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),...

ASIO4All is a great tool but it's important to understand when it makes sense to use it.

Even if you have started recording for just a little while, you've most likely heard about microphone polar patterns (and if you haven't,...

We all love making music and recording. It's a product of our soul. Who would want that product not to be as damn good as possible? It's...

You may have read the post about how DAWs destroy your recordings (if you haven't, there's worse ways of spending five minutes), so you...

This is a blog about all things audio, so it may seem odd to talk of something that apparently hasn't much to do with audio. We want to...

A quick post today on something not particularly difficult or esoteric - but which seems to be a source of confusion to more than a few,...

Well, ok: I lied. DAWs do not destroy recordings. I love DAWs, and we can make wonderful recordings and mixes using any. This post is...