Category: Recording

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...

There have been many times throughout my music recording life when I have needed to send or receive a musical project to work on. When doing this it is usual to send either "stems" or "multitracks"....

If you have ever seen a band play live, then more than likely you have seen a Shure SM58 microphone being sung into. Although commonly known as a great live mic, the SM58 is also often used in the...

Modern music recording hardware and software give us many options when it comes to applying effects to our tracks. Should we record with effects applied, and trust our ability to capture a great...

When recording songs in our home studios, it can be easy to get overwhelmed and paralyzed by even the simplest of decisions. For example, when faced with recording several tracks for a song, what...

I have been working in some form of home recording studio for over 20 years. When I started in the 1990s, my "studio" was just a cassette-based Tascam Portastudio (remember those!?) with a cheap...