Tips

Great resource for mixing practice
Readers of Sound On Sound should be familiar with Mike Senior’s “Mix Rescue” column. He has posted a number of multitrack recordings in different styles

Panning re-amped guitars
Traditionally, the lead vocal sits in the middle of the stereo image, along with the kick, bass and snare. Other instruments may be panned into

Moving your Kontakt Libraries
Having struggled with moving the EZDrummer2 libraries to my SSD audio drive, I was prepared for an equal struggle with Kontakt. However, as you don’t

Moving your EZDrummer2 Library
Having written previously about installing an SSD, (Solid State Drive) as an audio drive on my laptop, the first thing to do was to move

Why pay full price?
If you’ve watched any of the videos on this blog or read any of the articles, you’ll know that I have a good selection of

Stereo effects on a mono source
Reamping a DI guitar signal is a great way to ensure that your tone balances with the rest of the mix, not to mention allowing

Solo Safe/Defeat
There’s an unsung feature in most DAWs that allows you to prevent a channel being muted when you solo another. At first, you might wonder

Free[ze] up your computer’s resources
When I started recording music, effects such as an 1176 compressor or a Pultec EQ were very much the province of big recording studios and

Video Tip: Restoring missing presets in Cubase
“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” is an axiom that seems to have fallen out of fashion with computer users, as we rush headlong