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HI Music Producers! Thanks for subscribing to the ASK ANDY Production Newsletter. Here in Santa Fe, NM its near the end of June and we have been having temperatures in the upper 90s F.  The rivers are running high with snow melt which is a good thing if you are a river kayaker 🙂 Today I […]

Hi Music Producers! Thanks for subscribing to the ASK ANDY Production Newsletter. Here in Santa Fe, NM its April and the ski season is mostly done. In a couple weeks we will be transitioning to mountain biking and hiking. Today I received a email notification of a new blog post from Bobby Owsinski’s website:  http://bobbyowsinski.blogspot.com […]

Hi Music Producers! Thanks for subscribing to the ASK ANDY Production Newsletter. Here in Santa Fe, NM its nearly Thanksgiving (US that is) and it has been snowing a little. I am getting excited to get up to the local mountain and go Telemarking. Recently someone asked me how I record electric guitar. Here are some thoughts on three […]

Hi Music Producers! Thanks for subscribing to the ASK ANDY Production Newsletter. Here in Santa Fe, NM its summer! And its getting hot – and tomorrow I go on vacation which I really need!! Here is a basic tutorial in Logic X – Basic session clean up, editing, EQ fine tuned for instruments and vocals, basic […]

Hi Music Producers! Thanks for subscribing to the ASK ANDY Production Newsletter. Here in Santa Fe, NM its summer! And its getting hot.   Here is a short tutorial on setting up a mulit-output Virtual Instrument in Pro Tools 11 – using EAST WEST PLAY. This allows you to record MIDI data on discrete tracks, and […]

This morning I checked out a great tutorial video by Bobby Owsinski. Some of you might be familiar with his book The Mixing Engineer’s Handbook The video he posted on his blog is a great way to get that “modern” (a la Lana Del Rey et. al) reverb sound on vocals but without it getting out of control. […]

Today I wanted to draw your attention to a really great video by UK based mastering engineer Ian Shepherd. He recently posted a video talking about Stereo Width in mastering – ways to measure it, and ways to listen for strange (phasey) effects of pushing things too wide. I think we are all interested in wide, […]

Hi Music Producers! Thanks for subscribing to the ASK ANDY Production Newsletter. Here in Santa Fe, NM its been a busy fall, and the snow has started falling in the local mountains. I have a series of videos that are going to be coming at you in the next few months. The first one: Logic […]

Today I came across this great post from GIK Acoustics Basics of Room Setup and I started reflecting on some basic things you can do to setup your listening environment. Have a read through the link above and look at the nice room in the picture – its residential, and looks like the second floor […]

Basic steps on how to get a decent recording: IMO (and I think many would agree) your DAW makes no difference at all. Think of a DAW as just a tape recorder that doesn’t add hiss or hum to a recording. to get good recordings you need: 1) a decent singer or an instrumentalist who […]