Adding Real Ambience After-the-Fact
This post focuses on capturing ambience by playing back and re-recording sounds in acoustic spaces. The idea of piping sounds into a space and retracking it isn’t new by any stretch of the imagination....
View ArticleIdea: Rolling Tracking Station
This post focuses on an idea I’ve had for a while: a rolling station that can be moved easily around the studio to ease tracking difficulty when working alone. One problem that I’ve run into is that,...
View Article11 Important DAW Maintenance Tips
This post focuses on some basic techniques for keeping your DAW running in primo shape. It’s easy to take our computers for granted, but sometimes it seems like if you turn your back for a moment, your...
View ArticleHow to Use Analog Tape as an Effect
This post focuses on the use of analog tape’s warm, unique compression as an effect. When engineers and producers started to make the switch from analog to digital, they found that digital was not only...
View ArticleHow to Group Tracks to Save DAW CPU
This post focuses on how to group tracks to save CPU or DSP processing. When I first started mixing using a computer, I would throw up inserts on everything. Everything was processed independently....
View ArticleReaper: Leaner, Meaner, Cheaper, Than Cubase or Pro Tools
Reaper is a leaner, meaner digital audio workstation than Pro Tools or Cubase without the hassles.
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