Recording acoustic drums is one of those things that people seem to think is difficult but is also one of the most fun. I’ll cover...

As a mix engineer, sometimes I get asked about my mixing process when it comes to album mixing. Doing a single mix is one thing - but how do I approach album mixing as a concept? The annoying answer is of course "it depends" but there IS a technique I use quite often which we'll cover today. I don't use this EVERY time, but it's one concept. I got approached by a producer friend to mix an album of retro TV themes. He's a very skilled guy and has lots of experience putting th

First, simply use the right tool for the job. Any guitar tone is a combination of three things: The player, the guitar, and the amp....

When I first started working from my own small studio everything I mixed was too bass heavy even though it sounded totally fine there...

There is an acoustics expert out there who says his products affect sound waves at a some kind of a voodoo molecular quantum level (and...

Saturation, for lack of a better definition is typically very mild distortion, also referred to as “coloration”, “vibe” “flavour” and...

Don’t be Preset F**ker. Use the workflow, sure… but stretch your horizons to make better records on the way...

One of the most common questions I see is "what are the best studio headphones for recording?" and I'm afraid there isn't a simple...

This was an article I wrote back in 2020 when we all thought this pandemic thing was going to only be a few months, little did we know. I...

Can you afford for your music to be released and sound average, or even worse not ever released? Time to hire a mixer.

Back in the dark ages (the 90’s) music magazines, to music kids like me were as important almost as the music.

Rock Climbing is going to be part of a series that discusses what you, as an artist can, and should be doing to promote yourselves.

Today's post is a short pep talk about where your head is. As I have tried to take this amazing thing I get to do for a living and make a...

So, I finally started to make recordings that you could actually call records, and of course, was really interested in this mysterious...

There are only about 30 or 40 songs that typically get played on a major radio station throughout the day in differing frequencies and...

Unfortunately being creative is not a tap we can switch on and off. Sometimes we need inspiration and when it comes to songwriting if we...

Many people ask the question what is the difference between mixing and mastering and I shall attempt to answer that today! Once a song is...

By now you will realise I have been around a while, and was of the first generation that had to struggle with making computers work in...

As ever with any instrument, the single biggest thing helpful in getting a good bass sound is the player. But what past that?

This may be hard to believe but sometimes recording engineers and producers from back in the “good old days” don’t have the best...