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Home Studio Guide: How to Build a Home Recording Studio Setup
Your home studio is your music creation hub. It’s the place where your inspiration and workflow meet and your tracks take shape. Advances...
Oct 3, 20198 min read


How to Use Drum Sample Replacement to Fatten Your Drum Kit
Modern production styles call for hard hitting drums with enough authority to punch through a dense mix. But capturing powerful, punchy...
Aug 16, 20194 min read


Watch: 23 Music Production Tips Every Producer Should Know
Everyone creates in their own way. But there’s a few production tips that are essential for anyone wanting to find success with their...
Aug 1, 20191 min read


The 10 Best Mic Preamps Under $1000
As you build your home studio you’ll hear a lot about which gear is the most important. Some will shout “you need a better audio...
Jul 31, 20194 min read


Watch: How to Fix Distorted Bass in Your Mix
LANDR’s senior audio engineer Al Isler loves to talk mixing. So we opened up our P.O. box to the LANDR community and asked you to send Al...
Jul 17, 20191 min read


How to Build a DIY Vocal Booth for Studio Quality Vocals
A DIY vocal booth is the best solution for recording great sounding vocals at home. Vocals are one of the most important elements of a...
Jul 2, 20194 min read


How to Use Transient Shapers for Better Dynamics
Your dynamics are one of the most important aspects of your recordings. So what happens when your normal set of tools can’t get you what...
May 22, 20191 min read


How to Get the Most from a Day at a Pro Studio
Booking a day in a pro studio is exciting. Access to high end gear and someone else to take care of engineering can push your tracks to...
May 14, 20194 min read


Studio Nonessentials: 7 Things You Don’t Need in Your Studio
It’s easy to get hyper focused on the pieces of gear you need to add to your setup. Equipment like audio interfaces, headphones and VST...
May 8, 20194 min read


Fletcher-Munson Curves: How Equal Loudness Contours Affect How You Mix
Your experience of music is more than just vibrations travelling through the air. Fletcher-Munson Curves explain why. As soon as a sound...
Mar 15, 20193 min read


How to Choose an Audio Interface for Your Home Studio
Your audio interface is the centrepiece of your home studio. It’s the home of essential tools like your preamps, AD/DA converters and...
Feb 14, 20194 min read


26 Recording Experiments: The A-Z of Trying New Things in the Studio
Experimenting in the studio is one of the best parts of being a musician. But inspiring ideas aren’t always on hand when you need them....
Jan 22, 20195 min read


Buying Your First Mic: The 4 Step Guide
So you finally put together the basics of your home recording studio. You have your audio interface, your monitors or headphones and your...
Jan 8, 20194 min read


Microphone Types: How to Choose the Right Mic for Your Sound
There’s an overwhelming number of microphones out there. Even picking the best microphones is a pretty daunting task. But it doesn’t have...
Jan 4, 20193 min read


The 30 Best Microphones on the Market Today
The sounds in your tracks can come from so many different sources. Sample packs, VST synths and audio effects make up a big part of...
Dec 12, 20185 min read


Recording Contracts 101: How to Sign the Right Record Deal
Music’s leap to digital distribution has impacted all corners of the music business… Like how recording contracts and record deals work...
Nov 26, 20187 min read


Kick Drums: How to Choose the Perfect Kick Sample
Kick drum can be the defining element of a song—so if it’s not working, your tracks will lack that special crack. Picking the right kick...
Nov 19, 20185 min read


How to EQ Kick and Bass for Better Low End
We all wish we knew how to mix kick and bass perfectly. You want that rock-solid, powerful low end that jumps right out of the speakers...
Sep 7, 20184 min read


5 Demos that Are Way Better Than the Final Release
A demo is an incredibly powerful musical tool—it’s the seed of a song. A good demo means there’s a good idea to begin with—which will...
Nov 1, 20174 min read


What Is Reverb? The 8 Step Guide to Mixing’s Most Powerful Effect
So what is reverb? Well, reverberation is all around us all the time. It’s the natural result of sound waves interacting with every...
Oct 4, 201710 min read
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