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, …

I keep reading around of people asking which is the best plugin, which is the best effects chain or which plugin they should buy to make their mix super loud and competitive…and the list goes on. I have to confess that I fell in this trap as well some years ago… It’s an infinite loop: …

Pro Tools is a very powerful DAW, but it can be even more powerful if you get used to some keyboard shortcuts… Why? Because every operation you can do by using just your mouse, you can do much faster using a shortcut! There are tons of different key commands, but you don’t need to know them all …

While starting a new mix, sometimes you discover your raw tracks are sounding dull and muddy. With these terms, I am basically referring to all that stuff that builds up in the lows and low mids regions when many tracks are playing together, that will cause your mix to sound somehow muffled or masked out. Choose …

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 …

Even if your hard drive has been carefully tested and should work for decades with no issues, there is always the (not-so) remote possibility for a crash. I’ve been working with computers for the last 15 years now, and I can tell you this: machines are not indestructible; sooner or later, it WILL happen! And …