The Audio Blog

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. of course) who seem ...

Ok, my attempt to a Clitonian presidential slogan is perhaps not the best, but after reading the n-th question about sound proofing, I feel like ranting a bi...

Ok, there's gazillion excellent videos and pages on the subject, but this question appears quite often in lots of places so I thought I'd make a quick post t...

Studios are fun. They usually have nice and comfy interiors, nice people (if the people ain't nice, the studio's soon out of business), big monitors, nice sh...

ASIO4All is a great tool but it's important to understand when it makes sense to use it.

Even if you have started recording for just a little while, you've most likely heard about microphone polar patterns (and if you haven't, just go googling), ...

A short post today about something very simple, but sometimes overlooked. The prevalence of DAWs, plugin effects and digital recording has given us amazing t...

There's few subjects that seem to provoke as much confusion and misunderstanding as mastering - and this post is about shedding a little light on the subject...

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 already know that - w...

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

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 make music, don't we?...

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, especially when reco...

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

Well, ok: I lied. DAWs do not destroy recordings. I love DAWs, and we can make wonderful recordings and mixes using any. This post is emphatically not about ...

In my first post I talked a little on how - after performance and arrangement - the physical space where you record (the "recording room", or "room" for shor...

What matters or matters not to get great recordings? Let's find out!