A trend I have started to notice more and more in the studio is for artists to be overly proud in how quickly they knock out their song or verse. “Check out this tune, it only took me 20 minutes to record!” they brag to their friends in the control room. While efficiency is great, and there are many ways to make the most of your time in the studio

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Mar 2022

Jargon Buster

One of the hardest things about making music is talking about it. In the studio we use a lot of jargon which is great when we have a shared language but completely unhelpful if we don’t all use the same words to communicate our ideas. I thought I’d throw up a little cheat sheet that you can check in on whenever you might not know how to get your point

When I’m recording new artists there are a few things that crop up around mic technique so here’s a just a really quick cheat-sheet for improving your microphone technique. Look Up Most artists write their lyrics on their phones and we’re used to holding our phones down around our stomachs and looking down at them so often I find that newer artists end up looking down at their phones, reading