Audio Production Tips
Audio Production Tips is founded and run by music producer Pete Dowsett. Its mission is to share the tricks of the trade to generations of enthusiasts and students that haven’t been as fortunate with the opportunities given to him.
Pete has wealth of experience in the music industry. He is as comfortable with engineering/production as he is with mixing. He is an audio engineering lecturer at Abbey Road Institute, London and is the author of Audio Production Tips: Getting the Sound Right at the Source, published by Focal Press in 2015.
He has worked at some of the most well known studios in the UK, including Metropolis, where he has worked with major artists such as: Pharrell, Snoop, Black Eyed Peas, Michael Kiwanuka. During this time Pete was also engineering for prestigious songwriter/producer Tom Nichols (Kylie Minogue, All Saints, Sugababes) on projects for major advertising (Koppaberg, Digital Cinema Media, House of Fraser) and with artists such as Laura Mvula and Scouting for Gi
Alternative / Stadium Rock Complete Mix Breakdown (video 3/4)
Alternative / Stadium Rock Complete Mix Breakdown (video 2/4)
Alternative / Stadium Rock Complete Mix Breakdown (video 1/4)
Mixing Ambient Rock Guitars
Vocal Air Trick - Dolby Type A
How to set mix bus compression
Using Parallel Compression on Drums
How to set a compressor - the ARRT approach
Home Studio Set Up 101
Drum Editing - Groove Template Extraction
Digital Metering 101 - dBFS, RMS, LUFS and more
Newfangled Audio Elevate - What is it?
How to Compress Vocals with Serial Compression
Top-Down Mixing 101: Getting big mixing wins quickly
Newfangled Audio EQuivocate - What is it?
Full Analogue Workflow In-The-Box with Waves Plug-ins [Video 2/2]
What is a Channel Strip? Demo with Waves CLA Mixhub [Video 1/2]
Free Drum Samples Pack
Relab Sonsig Rev A - What is it?
Brainworx Shadow Hills Mastering Compressor - What is it?
Masking 101: Three Techniques To Create More Space In Your Mixes
Referencing 101: Why Referencing Could Be Killing Your Mix
Abbey Road Studio 3 - What is it?
Using Samples to Create Bigger But Natural Drums - Andy Wallace Ambient Sample Technique
Pro Tools - Traffic Light Comping
Waves - Abbey Road Plate Reverb
Pro Tools - Auxes the easy way
Digital Gain Staging with a VU Meter