In the 13 years since I first booted up version 5.1 back in high school, Pro Tools has gone through six major software updates, three major flagship hardware updates and, most recently, a brand new plugin format. Pro Tools is ubiquitous within the recording and broadcast community as the industry Read more...
I recently learned that my favorite recording studio, and frankly one of my favorite places in the world – Saint Claire Recording Company in Lexington, KY – was closing its doors for good. Saint Claire was a special place for me, as I know it was for a lot of Read more...
Last October, I produced and engineered an album called The Modest Revolution for my friends Enter The Haggis, a Canadian roots-rock band that I’ve worked with for a number of years. We were fortunate to have raised enough money through crowd funding to be able to spend a month tracking Read more...
If you work with audio primarily ‘in-the-box,’ you know that your DAW is only as powerful as the plugins you stock it with. EQs, compressors, reverbs, effects and synths no doubt make up the vast majority of your toolset. But metering plugins are an equally crucial component of the modern Read more...
Part II of the multi-part Altiverb Impulse Response Project. I’m on a mission to capture the sound of Brooklyn recording studios and acoustic spaces through impulse responses created for Audio Ease’s Altiverb 7 software. For more info on the scope of the project and its roots, see Part I.
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