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...

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...

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...

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)...

You've just finished a mix. You've been sweating hours - no, days - until it's just so. Your levels are good, you've tested everywhere...

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...

It's no news that most music listening nowadays happens via streaming sites, and applications like Spotify, Apple Music etc, as opposite...

This is a blog about all things audio, so it may seem odd to talk of something that apparently hasn't much to do with audio. We want to...

A quick post today on something not particularly difficult or esoteric - but which seems to be a source of confusion to more than a few,...

In a previous post we've been looking at how a "good sounding" room for recording means, essentially, a room with controlled and low...