If you’re a musician trying to make his first jump into recording and mixing, then this post will get you started in no time!  With technology becoming more and more affordable these days, there are tens of different affordable options to choose from. They all seem to offer the same features and, especially for newcomers, …

You know that guy with the moving needle found on every piece of analog equipment, right? Well, that’s a VU meter. It’s one of the first devices introduced back in the analog days to measure and display the intensity of signal levels in audio equipment, making it possible for recording engineers to hit the recording …

The rooms we work in as home studio guys are far from being “acoustically perfect” or, most important in this case, soundproofed.  Issues are everywhere: we are getting some unwanted reflections from our bare concrete walls and maybe we can hear that dog barking in the distance even if we live in a quiet place, …

Maybe you’ve been told you absolutely need a condenser microphone to make a solid studio recording (did they tell you why, at least?) You know what? I don’t think so. I think you can get really good stuff out of a cheap dynamic microphone as well. That’s what I want to write about today, while answering …

If you read the advices I’m sharing with my free eBook “The Recording Roadmap”, then you know you should set your recording levels by keeping them around -18dBFS on average, with peaks jumping a bit higher. That’s one of the most important steps to consider when setting everything up for recording! But… The problem is that the meters …

With modern computers, virtual instruments have become more and more valuable and important, especially for all the home studio guys like us, so it’s important to know how to deal with them. Today’s post is dedicated to answering one of my readers, Josh, who asked me a question concerning that subject. Here’s what he wrote to me: …