12 Steps To Great Overdub Performances — Bobby Owsinski’s Music Production Blog:

Many times the ear candy of an overdub session can really make or break a song, but sometimes it’s not easy to create to capture that magic. Here’s an excerpt from the second edition of my Music Producer’s Handbook that can act as either an outline or as a reminder to check a number of critical points both before and during your overdub session. It’s 12 steps that you can take that can help you get great overdub performances.

Bobby Owsinski’s guides and books are an excellent starting point in anyone’s audio career…

How To Use Multiband Compressor-Expander Plugins For Noise Reduction | Production Expert:

When using Expand mode in combination with a negative range, the signal will be attenuated as soon as it drops below the threshold, increasing the perceived dynamics of the signal around the threshold. This is the most common type of expansion and with higher ratio and range values, it moves closer and closer to being a gate.

Copy to Live Loops: Transforming regions into cells in Logic Pro — 9to5Mac

Today we are taking a look at the copy to Live Loops function and transforming your regions into cells. While we previously explored some of the more performance-based applications of Launchpads and Live Loops, arguably the most obvious use for Apple’s grid-based production environment is in arrangement. You can easily and quickly experiment with transitions from one part to any other without having to start dragging and dropping huge, unwieldy chunks of regions around. Sure, that’s nothing some Marquee tool or skip/cycle wizardry can’t handle on the regular timeline, but there’s really no comparing that to the musical immediacy and hands-on immersion of triggering these sections with a single Launchpad button, all-synced to the timeline and without having to commit to anything until you’ve experienced the change.

How To Get A Great Electric Guitar Sound — Expert Advice | Production Expert

Great guitars are easy if the perfect take is perfectly captured. But what if they aren’t? In this article Mike Exeter offers some expert advice on how to deal with guitars which fight back…

I’m often asked about how to get a great guitar sound and it’s easy to resort to the flippant response of “start with a great guitarist, a well set up and brilliant sounding guitar and amp, and put a mic in front of it”

by Nick Messitte, iZotope Contributor July 1, 2020

3 Tips for Fixing VoIP Audio in the Mix

VoIP—for years, the bane of engineers who work on podcasts and in broadcasting. Voice over Internet Protocol, or “VoIP” for short, is the mechanism that enables telephone and videophone communication over the internet.

Think of the way a Skype call sounds: that tinny, grating quality is the result of audio data transfer using this protocol—and it’s terrible. Dropouts, blasts of distortion, and a persistent, sibilant resonance are common maladies of audio transferred using VoIP.

Unfortunately, VoIP is more ubiquitous and essential now than ever before. With the growing prevalence and necessity of remote meetings and video calls, engineers are working with VoIP audio on an increasingly regular basis. With that in mind, here are three tips to help optimize your VoIP audio.