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23/09/2022
Five One-Stage EQ Fixes
These simple EQ settings can fix a variety of issues. Just remember that often, a little goes a long way. When boosting or cutting with EQ, try the rule of hal...
16/09/2022
Two Crucial Tips for Quantizing Rhythm Guitar
Quantizing audio works best with short, percussive sounds-like drums. Rhythm guitar is more of a challenge, because the attacks aren't always defined well, ...
09/09/2022
Magic Stereo
For me, the gold standard for sound isn't what comes out a studio, but live music. One of the reasons is that mono sound does not exist in an acoustic envir...
01/09/2022
Instant Inspiration!
The MIDI-oriented Songwriter's Assistant tip makes it easy to play around with chord progressions. This new tip is about experimenting with, and recording, ...
25/08/2022
Instant Soundtrack!
Who reading this wouldn't want to make a little more money from their music? Okay, dumb question. When people think soundtrack, images of Hollywood scori...
19/08/2022
Compress Only the Bass's Midrange
A bass's low strings typically produce more energy than the higher strings. So, the low frequencies will push a compressor into compression before the highe...
12/08/2022
The Artist Version Remix: Super Stereo/Mondo Mono
After the July 27 post on the Super Stereo and Mondo Mono FX Chain for Studio One Professional, there was interest in a version for Artist. I've always said...
05/08/2022
Beyond New York-Style Compression
Go to the web, and you'll see a zillion YouTube videos and web posts that all say the same thing: a technique called parallel compression (also called New Y...
29/07/2022
Super Stereo and Mondo Mono
This is my first FX Chain designed for Project page songs, although it also works for tracks and buses in the Song page. It's based on mid-side processing. ...
25/07/2022
Purify Your Reverb
With algorithmic reverbs (like the Room Reverb), you might be surprised at how much dry sound makes its way to the output, even with the dry/wet control set to ...
15/07/2022
Pump Your Pads and Power Chords
I've written about how to get that cool pumped drum sound using the Compressor's internal sidechain-but I've never written about how to obtain the...
08/07/2022
Multiband Harmonic Tremolo
If you've been following the Friday Tip blog posts, then you know two things: I actually use the stuff I write about, and ask What if? a lot. Those attrib...
01/07/2022
Surf's Up
The July 4th weekend is approaching, so it's time to hit the beach-but you can't have surfing without surf music, right? So before you start scouting fo...
23/06/2022
Play Faster with Tape Stretch
How to Play Faster-By Playing Slower covered how to slow down tempo of non-MIDI based music without changing pitch. This allows playing a difficult part at a sl...
17/06/2022
That Vintage Airy Sound
as in, 10cc's I'm Not In Love. Back in those days, to minimize tape hiss, noise reduction compressed and increased highs when recording, then expanded...
10/06/2022
5 Mai Tai Tips & Tricks
We already covered Mai Tai's FM synthesizer secret identity-but that was the start of fun things to do with Mai Tai, not the end. Here are five more Mai T...
03/06/2022
Spruce Up Your Mono Guitar's Image
Almost all guitars, and many vintage keyboards, have mono outputs-but when it comes to recording and mixing, it's a stereo world. Ooops. Although you can al...
27/05/2022
Mixmaster Magic FX Chain
This Main bus FX chain is all about an easy-to-adjust, useful set of controls for processing a stereo mix (or other buses, like background vocals or drums). Wan...
20/05/2022
Studio One's FM Synthesizer
On the surface, Mai Tai is an easy-to-program, fine-sounding virtual analog subtractive synthesizer. But let's dig deeper-and unlock its unique FM synthesis...
18/05/2022
PreSonus Sound: Chiara Luzzana
I don't need a musical instrument when life plays the best notes Chiara Luzzana (2022) We at PreSonus are extremely thrilled to hear and see Chiara Luzz...
13/05/2022
Capturing The UNLV Symphonic Wind Ensemble with Quantum 2626 and Studio One
The way I found out about Studio One and PreSonus: I had lunch with Bob Moses (president of the Audio Engineering Society at one time) and I asked him some que...
13/05/2022
Become a Grouping Groupie
Recently, I did some mix consulting on a 60-track project centered around Ukrainian relief-and as someone who usually works with far fewer tracks, it reminded m...
11/05/2022
KRIS XEN: Modern Fusionist with PreSonus Studio One
Kris Xenopoulos, AKA KRIS XEN is a South African guitar player, musician and producer. Most well-known for his work with South African death metal outfit, Vul...
06/05/2022
Unlock the Power of Impact XT's Multiple Outs
We all know Impact XT is cool-but it's at its coolest when you use the individual audio outputs, because then you can add exquisite effects to individual dr...
29/04/2022
Frequency Splitting in Artist
The Splitter is one of Studio One Professional's coolest features, because it can split by frequency and do multiband processing. I'm a huge fan of the ...
22/04/2022
The Guitarist's Hum Buster
Hum is like an unwanted house guest-when it shows up, all you really want to do is get rid of it. Unfortunately, I can't help you with unwanted house guests...
15/04/2022
Your Virtual Listening Room
Listening to speakers is a different experience than listening to headphones. Instead of your head being one point of an equilateral triangle with speakers, hea...
08/04/2022
Fix Mixes with Multiband Dynamics
Multiband compressors can seem daunting. However, they're just several compressors stuffed into one plug-in (or in the case of Studio One, dynamics processo...
04/04/2022
Get FREE Bluetooth connectivity when you purchase new R-Series V2 Monitors!
From April 1, 2022 until May 31, 2022 get a FREE*** PreSonus MicroStation BT when you purchase a new pair of R65 V2 or R80 V2 studio monitors from participating...
01/04/2022
Universal Gated Reverb
Last week's tip covered using the Mixverb to create the 80s gated reverb effects with drums. This week, we'll present a more universal solution. But als...
25/03/2022
EZ 80s Gated Mixverb Drums
The gated reverb effect on drums was one of the signature sounds of the 80s, with probably the most famous example being Phil Collins' In the Air Tonight. ...
18/03/2022
Studio One's VCA Module
A modular synthesizer's VCA (Voltage-Controlled Amplifier) changes gain in response to an input control voltage. One of my favorite applications is controll...
11/03/2022
Parallel? Narrow? Bass? Say What?!?
It's probably obvious that I love the Chords track. It's so useful that if you haven't made friends with it yet, look over the Reference Manual then...
04/03/2022
Lively Up Your Drums
One element that can help make drums exciting is including the room sound where the drums were recorded. If you don't believe me, listen to the drum part in...
25/02/2022
Create Your Perfect Vocal Channel Strip Preset
First, some news: If you own The Huge Book of Studio One Tips and Tricks, the free update to version 1.2 is available from the PreSonus shop. Just go to your ac...
11/02/2022
Slick Tricks for Stack and Strum
Version 5.5 introduced Chord Stack and Strum features, which are pretty cool (for the basics on how they work, check out Gregor Beyerle's YouTube video). We...
04/02/2022
Melodify Your Beats
Wouldn't it be cool to add a harmonic element to beats? Well, thanks to Harmonic Editing and a little pink noise, you can. The goal is to have your beat or ...
28/01/2022
Cool Reverb Trick, Bro!
Let's go right to the audio examples, because they're worth a thousand words. The problem: You want a big, lush reverb on drums. But that overpowers th...
21/01/2022
Don't Ignore the Free VU Meter Plug-In
It may seem like VU meters are a relic of the past. However, the VU Meter plug-in that's available for free in the PreSonus Shop is well worth the download-...
14/01/2022
Hit LUFS Targets with the New Digital Release Menu
It's a streaming world-and streaming services have their own audio standards with respect to LUFS and True Peak levels. LUFS is not the same as peak or aver...
14/01/2022
Studio One 5.5 Mastering with Perry Sorensen (Head of Mastering, NAXOS of America)
Perry Sorensen, Head of Mastering for NAXOS of America, gives us his favorite fe...
11/01/2022
Happytwobehere with PreSonus
Happytwobehere is a duo from Covington, Louisiana comprised of two young ladies: Isabel Mathes (vocals) and Lillian Stegen (drums, keyboard, programming, produc...
11/01/2022
Studio One 5.5 is here!
Studio One 5.5 has arrived, adding a ton of new mastering power to the Project Page - including Automation - as well as plenty of other features, including a st...
08/01/2022
Talk Box Emulator for Guitar
Although this isn't an actual talk box, it does give humanized mouth sounds with Studio One Professional. This is possible because the human mouth is a filt...
31/12/2021
Mix Referencing with Master Matching
Mix referencing, where you compare your mix to well-mixed music, can be a big help if you want a reality check on what you're doing. There are even curve-s...
24/12/2021
The Night Before Christmas (And All Through Studio One)
Check out renowned composer, Robin Hoffmann's, rendition of The Night Before Christmas created exclusively in Studio One showcasing the use of Sound Varia...
24/12/2021
The Songwriter's Assistant
It happens to everyone: creative blocks. You want to do something musical, but you keep falling into the same old patterns, or you need something new and differ...
17/12/2021
Add Lookahead to the Fat Channel Compressors
The Fat Channel is a versatile channel strip plug-in that, because of all the other cool Studio One individual processors, is easy to overlook. But it has sever...
10/12/2021
SoWhat's the Deal with Aux Channels?
Hardware is making a comeback. Real-time, improvisation-based drum machines and synths are gaining popularity, and you can find occasional bargains for used syn...
08/12/2021
James F. Reynolds: VOXPOD Studios and Studio One
So why is BTS ( ) Fake Love official video shown above? Because their hit song was mixed in Studio One Professional by our latest PreSonus Sphere Featured...
