#Recording

Compressors – What is the Knee and What does it do?

As you get better with compressors, you will start playing with other knobs and features. One of these is the knee. The knee refers to...

Compressors 201 – Threshold

A compressor has a lot of knobs and settings. They can be confusing at first. In this blog I am going to talk about one of those knobs –...

Creating a Click Track (in Pro Tools)

Using a click track during recording is, of course, imperative. We can’t do our work if we can’t play to the beat! Luckily for us Pro...

10 Tips for a great vocal recording

Here are ten quick tips to think about the next time you record vocals: 1) Warm Up: Every vocalist needs to warm up. You wouldn’t run...

Calculating File Sizes (How much hard drive space does it take to record a song?)

So . . . you want to record a song and you’re running out of space on the computer or external hard drive? Wondering if you have enough...

Timebase in Pro Tools

In Pro Tools, material (audio or midi) on a track is associated with a type of Time Scale. All track types can be set to either...

Powering Up Your Music Production System in the Proper Order

Did you know that it is important to power up your system and equipment in a certain order? In the early days, for me, I didn’t know that!...

Recording from sound modules without effects

If you’re involved with a lot of production work and do a lot of MIDI work like I do, you record a lot of projects using your sound...

Unmount hard drives from within Pro Tools

Have you ever tried to eject a hard drive from your system that you used in a Pro Tools session while Pro Tools was still up and running?...

Demystifying Pro Tools Preference Settings part 2/3

In the last blog post I covered the first tab under pro tools preferences – Display. Today I will cover Operation Preferences. First...

Creating and using templates in Pro Tools 8

Even though Pro Tools offers QuickStart session templates, you may choose to do what I do, which is create your very own unique template...

Organizing sessions in your DAW

I don’t like wasting time while working on a mix. Being organized in a session is critical. A lot of time can be wasted looking for...