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.

Overall, I’m not overly impressed with most recording magazines. However, when an article is THIS amazing, I have to stand up and tell the world. The Tape Op interview with Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante and robo engineer Ryan Hewitt is AMAZING!

I tell every beginning home recording enthusiast to listen and experiment constantly. It’s so important for a beginner to learn the sometimes subtle differences between mics, preamps, and converters. After we grow past the beginning stages of audio engineering, it’s easy to get set in our ways. This blog is about challenging old recording habits and ideas.