Sweetwater Studios engineer Rachel Leonard talks about the latest music gear news from March 2021 — special thanks to Shure, Epiphone, Blackstar, Jared James Nichols, and Sweetwater Studios for making...
Sweetwater Studios engineer Rachel Leonard talks about the latest music gear news from February 2021 including our NAMM Gear Roundup, Yamaha YC88 88-key Stage Keyboard Demo and Jordan West performing...
Elkhart, Indiana-based band Lavine came to the Sweetwater Studios a while back to do their first project with engineer Bobby Dellarocco, a four-song EP recorded and mixed in Studio A over three days....
Sweetwater Studios assistant engineer Rachel Leonard breaks down her top 10 must have items to have on standby to ensure a successful studio session.
Power and lots of it! Power strips, extension cords,...
The first item in the vocal chain isn’t, as you might expect, the microphone. It’s the singer. Why? Because the singer is the source of the sound. Everything else in the chain is there to capture and...
As late as the 1950s, it wasn’t uncommon to record a group with no microphones specifically for the drums. At an Audio Engineering Society seminar in 2001, legendary engineer Bruce Swedien talked about...
There are a number of reasons to consider playing live gigs using a microphone to amplify your acoustic guitar rather than a built-in pickup and a DI. Perhaps you don’t care for the sound of the pickup...