Just about every day I'll get an email from a random A Cappella person asking if he or she should buy a particular mic, preamp, plug-in, monitor, headphone, recording platform, sound absorber, and

Well, I’m on another airplane, so it’s time to write some articles!  I’m on my way back from the 2009 ICCA Finals in New York, which will probably go down in aca-lore as “the day MTV took over”.

While judging the finals, I noticed something that also bugs me in recordings, so thought it might be a good topic – over-enunciation of nonsense syllables.  Now, your high school choir teacher might be proud that you’ve kept up your good diction, but I say doh jin jin walla boww to that.

This is something we producers are asked from time to time, and of course we'll do our best to achieve this for you if it's what you really want - Most of us just don't believe it's what you really want!

I’ve noticed lately that I am getting a lot of sessions from people who have been using reverb and delay in their tracking to get a little more inspiration and space under the headphones.  This is great, but looking at how they are doing it, I see most are unaware of a basic track management technique – sends and auxiliary effects channels.