The Audio Blog

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 t...

Take any audio forum or Facebook group, or even a conversation at a pub among audio-interested people, and sooner or later someone will c...

As we all know, these days going to a studio with a proper control room and recording engineer has become more and more unusual. Recordi...

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. ...

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

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...

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), b...

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,...

A short post today about something very simple, but sometimes overlooked. The prevalence of DAWs, plugin effects and digital recording ha...

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 a...

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 m...

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 refl...

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 emp...

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

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