Field recording seems a dark art to many sound designers and composers, yet it is one way to create rich libraries of original material. Through some simple...

Whatever genre you are working in and whatever DAW you use to produce your music, it is likely you have suffered from latency issues at some point. Whether...

After touching on the critical subject of acoustics and room treatment in a few recent tutorials, I felt it was fitting to create a basic guide to...

The upgrade to Pro Tools 8 includes many exciting enhancements, new features and plug-ins that add up to make music production easier than ever. Let's take a...

In this article, we’re going to look at ten things you can do to help maximize the performance of Reason, fix various annoying issues, and avoid CPU strain...

Impedance is something that everyone who records or plays music should know about. It comes in to play every time we plug in an instrument, microphone,...

Sometimes when you are recording a new track it is good to turn off the metronome and auto-quantize using your software, just hit record, and play from the...

Recording drums is a bit of a lost art. Engineers used to spend a year experimenting with mics before they were allowed near a Fairlight or a Synclavia (old...

In the last EXS tutorial, we looked at the basic steps needed to build a unique sampled instrument using Logic’s EXS Sampler. This tutorial will take it to...

I’ve been a professional sound engineer for 18 years, so when I got involved in making an independent movie, I thought recording the audio shouldn’t present...

Pulling off an excellent studio performance can be difficult. The environment is, for most of us, daunting and cold, even if we’ve spent a lot of time in it....

Finally, your project has the budget for a nice studio with a good microphone closet. When you get there, you want to make sure you are acquainted with...