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The Audio Blog is a set of thoughts, techniques, knowledge bits and the occasional rant about the wonderful world of audio and music recording. Follow me on the path to great sounding music, never a boring moment!
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Cristiano Sadun
- Oct 11, 2019
- 5 min
Listen, don't look!
A short post today about something very simple, but sometimes overlooked. The prevalence of DAWs, plugin effects and digital recording has given us amazing tools to play with, and the possibility to reach exceptional quality even with modest means. DAWs and plugins are amazing. Both DAW and plugins, however, are computer applications. Specifically, personal computer application. So what? say you. Well, personal computer applications tend to use a screen. For DAWs, often two o
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Cristiano Sadun
- Oct 2, 2019
- 7 min
What is mastering?
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. Confusion seem to exist on what mastering does and is - especially with digital recordings. As a consequence, misunderstandings abound on how and if it makes sense to apply the step. You find all sort of definitions: some plausible ("mastering corrects errors in your mix"), some quite off ("mastering is where you get th
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Cristiano Sadun
- Sep 15, 2019
- 4 min
How DAWs destroy recordings
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 how analog is better than digital (it isn't). There are, however, two super annoying things about most DAWs. These are the default waveform zoom level and the default meters color coding (when the signal gets from green to yellow to red) in their GUI - i.e. the way they present tracks out of the box, when you've just ins
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