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Tricking yourself is just not a good long-term strategy.

When you place reverb on a channel, does it sound different than when you put it on a bus?

If you go to school to be an audio engineer, one of the things they’re going to talk to you about is mid-side.

If you find yourself turning up your levels when you record and then turning them back down when you’re done, consider changing this setting in Logic Pro.

It’s producer malpractice if you don’t do a quick gut check on the key of your song before you record that awesome vocal.

When you’re working in the box, you enjoy a luxury, which is that all of your plugins and settings snap to attention as soon as you open your session.

Folders and Logic, underrated.

There will come a point in your career where you will need to deliver stems.

I’m a guy who loves to get my hands dirty.

Welcome to today’s first and possibly only episode of Stupid Logic Tricks, where I share things I almost never need to do, but I’m glad I know how to.

When your favorite application is updated, it’s generally considered best practice to preserve a working copy.

Producer, professional, beatmaker.

Inexperienced producers tend to make a tactical mistake when they’re working with vocalists.

Logic Pro’s recent update adds support for 32-bit floating audio files.

We see both experienced and beginner producers at Bee Kitchen.

Like most things, fixing a subtle clash in logic is pretty much the same as it was in Ableton.

This is me watching everyone run around with their pants on fire because their plugin company went to a subscription model knowing full well you can do almost anything you want to with your stock plugins.

Ideally, in the studio, I’m always recording, because you never know when something amazing is about to happen.

If your workflow is inefficient, nothing you learn in your DAW has much impact.

If you’re thinking about joining a Beat Kitchen class, or actually if you’re thinking about getting into music production at all, here are three things I don’t care about, and you shouldn’t do there.

The power of a compressor really comes into its own as we start to adjust the attack and release time.

Logic has this secret automation folder.

Time and time again, I see students run into trouble because of assumptions they make around the word "stereo." I’m not trying to take you down a notch by making you feel like you don’t understand something that you thought you did, but signal flow legitimately trips a lot of people up, so I want to challenge you by thinking about this example.

The canvas for sound and music is neither digital nor analog.

Side chains are overrated.

Markers and Logic are great for labeling sections of your song, but did you know they can also contain lots of extra text?

One thing that tends to confuse new engineers is the difference between phase and polarity.

I didn’t make something clear when I said the difference for me in moving from tape to digital was in that pause when you had to rewind after you did a take.

These two passages are indeed different and then stumped my ear training group in gym.

This old relic, this is your grandma’s motorized fader.

Logic doesn’t have a straightforward way to apply an LFO across a bunch of parameters.

Don’t be in such a rush to learn.

So basically the way our classes work, we try and get you in and out of a DAW class as soon as humanly possible because we want to get to the fun stuff, the interesting stuff.

This little unsung hero is part of my workflow in Logic and it’s called Create Track.

Hey everybody, you may be aware of our songwriting incubator, but we’ve got some new classes coming up in a new format and I wanted to tell you about it.

Baba beans. Perceptions of bear. It’s known as the McGurk effect. And if you play it back, you’ll hear what I actually said was Baba with a B. Part of…

In the beginning, you didn’t know what a DAW was.

How many chords do you know?

Transform Logic Pro X from beginner to power user: comprehensive guide to advanced settings, custom templates, workflow optimization, and professional interface customization.

Every DAW crashes. Every computer crashes. In fact, if you were using tape, your Capistan motor would run out at some point. When you sign on to do music production,…

Feeling stuck when you’re working on melodies and phrases, there are lots of home remedies for this, but they usually involve the same thing, which is to somehow kickstart your process and get you doing something new.

After teaching countless people how to use programs like Logic and Ableton, I’ve decided to give up.

If my recent videos on things like compression have helped you crystallize those concepts, you should consider joining our class.