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Sometimes you may need to open up multiple instances of the same plugin while working on a session (console emulation anyone?)… Unfortunately, by default each plugin opens up with a factory preset loaded, that may or may not be what you need. It might be just an empty preset, meaning it will do nothing, for instance… Or …

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, …

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 …

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 …