Studio

Here’s a cool little trick you can do that’ll help you with your ear and with your DAW skills at the same time.

Speakers are kind of like a pair of new shoes.

Your condenser microphone needs power.

This is a Helmholtz resonator, and you’ll see them in studios.

There are vocalists out there that will never ever give you a good performance in headphones, but even seasoned vocalists sometimes have a hard time matching the vibe and the performance of a relaxed studio environment with the monitors on.

I arrived in New York in the late 90s.

I am so stoked to talk to you about microphones, but before I do, we need to have a serious chat.

They say monsters aren’t real, but I’m not so sure.

Two things in the studio you’ll never see me without.

On paper, this mic is better than this one in pretty much every way.

Here’s a follow-up to the phase inversion trick I shared with you the other day to get you untethered from your headphones It works on a similar principle, but it’s a little different in this scenario.

If you go to school to be an audio engineer one of the things they’re gonna teach you about is speaker delays It’s because of the legs so here’s the thing sound travels at roughly 1100 feet per second that works out to about 1.1 millisecond per foot my front gate.

Hey everyone, there’s someone I’d like you to meet.

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

Do you need room acoustics and sound treatment?

It’s time I showed you how to wrap a cable.

Welcome to a ton of new followers and I figured I’d introduce myself.

It was the great Greek physicist Archimedes who said, "Give me a lever long enough and I’ll break your keytar.

We see both experienced and beginner producers at Bee Kitchen.

I can’t believe I’m saying this.

Always run tape. That was a piece of advice I got as a young musician, and I still think it’s really good. I don’t just mean you should record your…

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

We all do it. Part of studio culture seems to be fetishizing gear, but let’s level set for a second. Because aside from you and your instruments, the only thing…

You might be surprised to learn that the big studio sound you like isn’t just a byproduct of a big studio.

Your audio interface is a device that does a few different things.

If you know someone who’s making cool beats but they’re still adjusting stuff by ear, getting things sounding good without entirely understanding what those settings are doing, their success relies as much on luck as it does on skill.

It was the great Greek physicist Archimedes who said, "Give me a lever long enough and I’ll break your keytar." In my experience, a cable like this is pretty much guaranteed to break a jack like that, which is why in the time of the pyramids, they invented cables like this.

There’s one thing we all have in common and that’s water.

A producer today is like an island and to me nothing epitomizes that more than the topic of automation.

Do you need to break in new speakers?

Listing your gear is just as likely to disqualify you from a gig than to qualify you for one.

Today, I’m ripping apart my studio.

Achieve professional studio sound through recording diversity, not expensive gear. Learn why varying microphones, instruments, and recording positions creates better productions than relying on one setup.

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

This Friday, I’ll be kicking off Beat Kitchen’s Digital Marketplace Summit with a free workshop for members.

Today I got diagnosed with something called "dupertrans disease".

Complete guide to recording grand pianos: from the 'missionary position' to ORTF arrays, boundary mics, and advanced multi-mic techniques for capturing the perfect piano sound.

Complete guide to recording upright pianos: microphone placement techniques, removing panels for better access, dealing with player noise, and miking from behind the instrument.

Essential beginner's guide to music production equipment: from headphones and MIDI controllers to audio interfaces and microphones. Start making music without breaking the bank.

New students come in to me with their eyes all in glitter thinking about gear and gear is great But let’s level set for a second because aside from you and your instruments The only thing in your entire studio that makes a sound is your monitors and every decision you make comes through that lens This video is not so much for the rest of the video; it’s not so much for the rest of the

Two things in the studio you’ll never find me without.

I’m Nathan and I’m the founder of Beat Kitchen and I really hope you’ve enjoyed this little piece on music theory.

Creative vocal recording techniques for Jill Cunniff's 'Eye Candy': blending vintage and modern mics, piano cavity recording, and unique processing for otherworldly vocal textures.

What’s your first upgrade or purchase once you’ve set up the bare bones minimum for your studio?