I was recently asked how I started making money with my recording studio. To be honest, I must first say “WHAT MONEY????”.

The world of budget studio monitors has exploded recently. I was just curious to see if anyone was having any luck with their mixes translating to the outside world with inexpensive studio monitors.

I have heard of people swapping out the tubes in their tube condenser microphones for improved fidelity, but I always figured it was super subtle improve that wasn’t worth my time. Changing tubes is a BIG deal! My Soundelux U99 is proof.

It’s a popular wish for high school kids in rock bands to want to get a job recording Nickleback for a living. Parents, this article will shoot a little reality into the situation.

It appears that as home recording technology gets more and more accessible, more people decide they want a career in the recording business. This is an article with me venting about the negative aspects of the home recording studio business.

After you’ve got all the prerequisite gear to make recordings, the need to upgrade mics, preamps, compressors, plugins, monitors, computers, and just about anything else you can think of tends to consume you. This article will discuss when to upgrade and why.

This article is all about the suprisingly HUGE increase in recording quality when you finally achieve confidence in your studio monitors. I am THRILLED that when I making an audio engineering decision, I know it’s going to hold up on other systems.

If you haven’t wasted the time to make a Zombie track, may you aren’t a REAL engineer yet!

On Friday, I spent most of the day moving my Mackie HR 824s to a new spot in an effort to find a spot where my studio monitors sounded worse. Yeah, you heard me!

The most powerful audio engineering concept of all time is clearly illustrated in these two videos. Zakk Wylde vs Zakk Wylde Fan.