Natural Phase: danger
Somewhere out there, somebody’s telling you that it’s dangerous to use natural phase EQ because it imparts a phase shift on your recordings.
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polarity and phase
One thing that tends to confuse new engineers is the difference between phase and polarity.
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If You Like Your Reverb: eq before reverb
Your reverb has a job to do.
Compression: Good Talk
Let’s talk about why you’re having a hard time hearing compression.
Finding the sculpture inside the stone
Today in office hours I helped one of our students conform some of their free playing onto a tempo grid.
Plagal: meet the amen chord
Meet the Amen chord, the plagal cadence.
Bussing
As soon as you send a signal anywhere, your stereo output, your headphones, you’re using a bus.
Stop Singing
Stop singing. There’s nothing in your vocal chain that will substitute for a good performance. I can fix your pitch, I can fix your timing, but if the …
Patches Aren't Presets
I don’t give a rat’s ass if you use presets or not.
Color Tones
The color tones in a chord tend to be the ones that create a little friction.
Ten Things That Are More Important Than Your Signal Chain
Here are 10 things that are more important than your vocal chain.
Save A Song
Every day, thousands of potentially great songs are abandoned and left to wither away, unappreciated and unloved.
Tape Marker
Two things in the studio you’ll never see me without.
