Understanding phase can help you diagnose problems when miking or mixing. This post is a clear explanation and helpful overview of the topic from Mark Garrison’s book Encyclopedia of Home…

The holidays are upon us, and we’re feeling festive at Tuts+ this weekend! We’d like to take this opportunity to say a huge Christmas thank you to all our readers, and wish you a very Happy…

This quiz is meant to be fun, like a Christmas scavenger hunt. The answer to each question is a number between one and twelve, but in random order. Questions are taken from Audiotuts+ trivia,…

The drums are the foundation of a great mix. You can be adventurous with the guitars, making them sound off the wall and unnatural, but if the drum sound strays too far off the path of punchiness,…

Rockable Press have just released a new book: How to Record Great Music by Audiotuts+ regular and audio engineer Björgvin Benediktsson. And you can get $6 off the eBook version for the next four…

This track has been submitted for your friendly, constructive criticism. What useful feedback can you give the artist? The floor is yours to talk about the track and how they can fix problems in and…

“One Trick Pony” is my favourite track by Nelly Furtado. If you listen to it you’ll hear a great bass sound that’s thrown into the mix here and there in the track. You’ll have heard this kind of…

Nile Rogers gives great guitar advice. Bobby Owsinski recently posted the video on his blog with this comment: “One area that Nile really knows is funk, and in the following video, he gives…

Today we’ll begin a series of quick tips about Novation Launchpad “MIDI feedback”. I decided to write on this topic, because I haven’t found anything useful about creating complex feedback features…

FL Studio’s mixer has four dedicated send tracks as well as the ability to use any other track as a send. This is fine for most purposes, but forces you to burn a track if you want to process a…