Category Archives: Audio Issues

Why You Should Use MIDI Samples for Music Production

This is a guest post by Mark Spacey – Read the guest post guidelines if you wish to contribute. Today, computers play a large role in music production. Old techniques of splicing recordings by hand have faded in popularity, and most levels of aud...

Make Your Mixes Better Than Ever With Crowdsourcing

I believe you’re always striving to make your mixes better, am I right? You want to learn the tips and tricks of the trade and improve your skills no? Maybe you can do me a favor then. I’m looking for ways to make your mixes better, while a...

Extreme Makeover – Your Music Edition

There’s something about taking something you love, like your music, and making it better than you ever thought. It’s like the Extreme Makeover shows. For example, they take a rundown house and create a paradise out of it for the family. New...

More Mastering Mayhem Mega Knowledge

Real quick here. 2 things. One: I’m interviewing Ian Shepherd of Production Advice about the Home Mastering Masterclass that’s starting again on Friday today but I wanted to give you access to the one I did a while back. I interviewed him o...

Why I’d Rather be the Boy Wonder than the Dark Knight

I saw the new Batman movie last month. I’ve mulled it over in my head for a while. I liked it, but it didn’t quite stand up to the quality of The Dark Knight. The Joker story is just too good to beat. Anyway, I just really like the new Batm...

The Reason No Drum Recording Technique is the Best

I was helping out a friend in his studio the other day, comparing different drum recording techniques. He was focusing on different overhead techniques. It was actually pretty interesting because we ended up with testing every overhead technique at the...

The Chris Lord-Alge Secret of Simple Mixes

Chris Lord-Alge, if you haven’t heard of him, is one bad-ass mixing engineer. He has over 750 credits to his name. He’s mixed artists as diverse as Bruce Springsteen, Deftones and Avril Lavigne. He’s generally known for his hard-hitti...

The Jedi Master and His Insanely Informative Mastering Course

A year ago I thought I was a decent enough mastering engineer. I mean, it wasn’t so hard. You only needed 3-4 things really. Gain. EQ. Compression. Limiting. No worries I thought. I got this. Turns out I was more of a Episode I Anakin than an E...

6 Stupid-Ass Electric Guitar Recording Mistakes

Guitarists are like girls. Can’t live with them, can’t live without ‘em. And I should know. I’m one of them. And I also live with a girl…. Point being, we get caught up in our “tone” a lot. Even when our ̶...

Dorothy and the Tin-Man’s Terrible Guitar Tone

[Quick update: I spoke too soon on Monday when I said Joe Gilder's Recording Electric Guitar class only had 50 spots. He's actually accommodating for 100 people, not 50. My apologies.] A reader chimed in with a question a while ago: How can I re-amp ...