How do you go about mic’ing up an acoustic guitar?
Whether with a single mic or in stereo, steel string or nylon string, Justin Colletti offers up some of the most popular and proven approaches to getting a truly great sound.
On deck are techniques like horizontal XY, Vertical XY, Read more...
How long should you take to mix a song? Justin Colletti offers some clear guidelines in this week’s episode of the SonicScoop Podcast.
He also goes over best practices for managing your time when it comes to mastering and recording.
Thanks to Soundtoys and Steinberg for sponsoring this episode. Remember Read more...
To help celebrate the launch of Mastering Demystified, our all new full-length course with SonicScoop editor Justin Colletti, we are rounding up some of our most popular free posts on mastering of all time!
Check out this can’t-miss countdown below. And when you’re ready to go even deeper with Read more...
Sometimes all there is to rebrand is just a name change – some new words, and nothing bigger.
That’s not the case with Precision Sound Studios, the Upper West Side audio facility that once simply went by the name of its founder, Alex Sterling. But this busy room just keeps Read more...
Last week, we explored a variety of ways to get an excellent acoustic guitar recording using a single microphone. The next logical step in the quest for different sonic nuances is to combine two or more microphones to obtain different colors.
While the single-mic techniques we demonstrated can be perfect Read more...
