by Justin Douglas | Nov 26, 2019 | Blog, Featured |
Or: How I learned to stop chasing popularity and (mostly) love my job When I was an assistant engineer at a prominent studio—back when those two things existed—I worked a short stint with a well-known rock producer. After a long first day that featured band...
by Justin Douglas | Aug 13, 2019 | Blog, Featured |
All you need to know to start making recordings at home that don’t suck. I’m going to lay out a ton of very basic information on you about recording, gear, and a little personal philosophy at the end. You can go in depth with anything written below with a...
by Justin Douglas | Nov 29, 2018 | Blog, Featured |
Audio engineers are translators. We translate ideas into sounds. Creative descriptions into technical decisions. Drunken late-night texts into mix revisions. That’s the secret to this job: we manage personalities and egos, insecurities and interpersonal dynamics, and...
by Justin Douglas | May 30, 2018 | Blog |
I see a lot of Facebook posts like “What’s the best studio in town?” or “Who’s your favorite mastering engineer?”, and they kinda drive me nuts. The way award shows drive me nuts. In the mid-90s I was in high school and Rolling Stone did a best-of poll. Readers...
by Justin Douglas | Mar 28, 2018 | Blog |
I got to sit in on a mix session with Michael Brauer1 in (I wanna say it was) 2000. This is before Gearslutz and Youtube, and his ABCD parallel bus compression method was a very new concept (to me) and kinda blew my young mind. Now parallel compression is the norm...
by Justin Douglas | Jan 27, 2018 | Blog |
I’m a big fan of cheap alternatives and creative solutions in the studio, mostly because recording gear is so damned expensive. The Wilkinson Audio 421 clip, or just about anything from Naiant Studio and Stam Audio are good examples of exactly this. A few...
