Category: mixers & DAWs

When spending some time around audio enthusiasts or shopping for audio equipment for your home studio, you may hear the terms 'audio mixer' and 'audio console' used interchangeably. Let's explore...

Many people working with mixers are often concerned about the longevity of their consoles and what effects turning it off and powering it back up again will have on their mixers. So, should you leave...

I have always routed my drum kit through a mixer when recording, even when I use my electronic kit and route it straight into my DAW. I will set up separate tracks (channels) for each individual part...

I started doing live sound before I ended up running my own home studio. In live sound, you use a mixer - and luckily for us, we live in a world with preamps built into the mixing desks. When I...

I had to teach myself everything about home studio recording, and over the years, you get into situations that you need to be able to handle, but you don't actually know if you can, or whether the...

I've been asked what graphics card (GPU) would be better for running a DAW? I've been using computers since the inception of DOS and in all my years working with DAWs have never ever needed the extra...