Posts by Paul Douglas

Setting up your first home studio can be incredibly intimidating. With so much equipment available, it can seem an impossible task to determine what you actually need. The good news is that it's not...

If you want to alter the sound of something you have recorded in a DAW, using VST plugins is a great way to do it. From EQ to compression, from guitar to keyboard sounds, there's a plugin for just...

Guitar amplifier simulator software ("amp sims") allows you to effectively have a guitar amp inside your computer, without an actual physical real amp. I have been doing all my electric guitar...

I have been using Reaper as my recording software for many years. As a guitar player, in that time I've used it to record guitar parts many times. Reaper is a great choice for recording guitars, but...

The traditional way to get sound out of an electric guitar for almost a century has been to plug it into a dedicated guitar amplifier. Most of the time when I play at home these days, I don't bother....

Mixing and mastering are crucial parts of the music production process, yet they are often confused with each other. It has taken me many years of making music in my home studio and releasing music...