Archive for the ‘Tips/Tutorials’ Category

Top 10 Pro Tools Tips for the Newbie

Monday, August 18th, 2008

During my years of experience in the field, I've had tons of people asking for advice. Specially advice on DAW systems – mainly Pro Tools, because it's the industry standard  - and because Digital Audio Workstations can get complicated. The tips I keep repeating are rarely heard, and then they come ...

Other Blogs and Websites You Should Know About

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

This one will get updates as it grows. Only non-commercial blogs are listed. Blogs: I know what you're thinking: “Why?” - Moozek is already so perfect and beautiful and updated so often (once every 3 months sometimes) – Why would you consider reading anything else? ;)

Keyboard Covers for Pros

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

You don't have to buy the overpriced Pro Tools custom keyboards (or keyboards for any other application for that matter), or settle for the stickers. Now, KB Covers and zCover are selling keyboard covers in latex with application shortcut maps printed on them. They work on Apple keyboards (old and ...

“The Loudness War”: Oh Please…

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

Everyone in the audio industry by now should have seen the video going around to raise "awareness" for the infamous Loudness War and deterioration of the audio quality during the mastering process nowadays...  No? Well, click and watch... It would be so Google-friendly for us to just post the video, ...

Tutorial: Parallel Compression

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

Also known as New York compression for its use in the formerly-known-as "New yorker" or ultra-compressed mixing style (which actually leaked to the west coast even before the Lord-Alge brothers made it popular). Very simple concept: bus the audio to a new auxiliar ("parallel"... you guessed it) and apply compression separately ...

Tutorial: Side-Chain Compression

Tuesday, November 6th, 2007

Heard often in radio broadcast, but also useful for music (i.e. tracking), the side chain compression technique, simple in concept but complex to implement correctly, is widely used and widely known. Video tutorial by db audioware, but you don't have to buy their plugin - it has some good tips ...

Tutorial: Tempo Matching in Pro Tools

Friday, October 19th, 2007

Now that Pro Tools 7.4 was announced for release very soon at AES, bringing the major Elastic Time feature, some would say this is not the best time to write an introductory tutorial about tempo matching "the old way" in Pro Tools. But it might be interesting to compare the ...