Category Archives: Recording Tutorials

Audio recording tutorials. These audio tutorials cover tips and tricks that should apply to any DAW like Ableton Live, Pro Tools, Logic Pro, Cubase, Sonar, PreSonus, Reason, FL Studio, Digital Performer, Reaper.

Free Drum Samples

I was in the studio recently recording samples of my Pearl Forum Series acoustic drum kit. Now I’m making those great sounding drum samples available for you to download. In this video we’ll take a listen to this awesome sounding kit and I’ll show you some basic editing tips when working with samples. We’ll create a basic beat and I’ll add some processing to fatten up these loops.

I hope you put these samples to good use. Please share with me the grooves you create with these. I’d love you hear your creativity.

Download the drum samples!


Recording/Mixing Acoustic Guitar

I’m recording a stereo acoustic guitar using only one microphone! This technique provides a huge stereo spread in your mix with 2 tracks hard panned Left and Right! I use many techniques for recording acoustic instruments but this is still one of my favorite ways to record an acoustic guitar!

Building Variation and Intensity in your Mixes

I’m using Logic Pro X to demonstrate how I build variation and Intensity in my original song “Drunken Calls”. We’ll take a look subtle changes between the verses and choruses to keep the song interesting and keep the listener engaged as the song progresses. I’m using automation and parallel drum compression to help build intensity in the mix.

Here’s the link to the original song!