Posts by Paul Douglas

When you're working on a song, there is often a need to output the tracks or stems. This could be to give to someone else for mixing, to make a backing track or to make a remix of your song....

Reaper is a great DAW (Digital Audio Workstation), suitable for beginners and experienced music producers alike. But to get the best out of it, it needs to be configured correctly. In particular, the...

So you've been working on a song in Reaper for a while, and you are very pleased with the results. When it's finished, you'll want to give it to other people to listen to. Fortunately, you can export...

Traditionally, electric guitars are associated with being loud. Plug one into a big tube amp, crank up the volume and let rip! But there are many reasons why you might want to play through...

The most common way to connect a musical keyboard (synth, digital piano, workstation, etc.) to a computer is to use MIDI, something that I do in my home studio all the time. But supposing your...

The Focusrite Scarlett series of audio interfaces is one of the most popular on the market. But with six different models, how do you know which one to choose? To record one audio track at a time,...