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 in the...

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...

In my pond, there once was a guy known as "the Gordon Ramsey of recording” or, as I liked to call him - Preset F**ker. He was by all...

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...

You worked hard on your music, and recording can be a difficult and emotional process as well as one of the most amazing things ever -...

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

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. First...

Todays 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 frequency and time...

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. This is the default mantra for...

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

After some thinking, I realised that a good chunk of my mixing clients are self-recording, and I usually focus on articles that are...

Love to or hate it, Spotify is one of the big players in your world right now covering something like 36% of global streaming - and...