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The Great Auratone Roundup (…Including Reviews of the Avantone, Reftone and Behritone Studio Monitors) [UPDATED 2023]

Why Auratones still matter: Little monitors can make your mixes sound big.

Big, glossy, expensive studio monitors conspire to reassure you: “See? Isn’t sound just… So great? Aren’t you glad you have all of this nice studio gear?”

But unlike larger, full-range speakers, the classic Auratone Super Sound Cubes would Read more...

Drum Tuning for the Recording Studio (The 7 Ingredients for Getting Better Drum Sounds, Fast)

Great drum sounds start with great-sounding drums.

We have more tools than ever to aid us in creating compelling drums sounds. So why is it still so rare and startlingly satisfying to hear truly great-sounding drum recordings?

The truth is that few drummers (and even fewer producers and engineers) Read more...

Serial Compression, Simplified. (The 3 Biggest Reasons to “Stack” Your Compressors)

Like Parallel Compression, Serial Compression is one of those esoteric terms that pops up  from time to time and can leave newer producers and engineers scratching their heads. While the name might seem obscure, the process is anything but:

“Putting one compressor before another is something that was going on Read more...

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