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...

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,...

A short post today about something very simple, but sometimes overlooked. The prevalence of DAWs, plugin effects and digital recording...

There's few subjects that seem to provoke as much confusion and misunderstanding as mastering - and this post is about shedding a little...

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...