Category: Into The Lair

Timeless 3

September 28, 2021

Using RootOne in a Mix

April 8, 2021

A Visit With Kali Audio

February 21, 2020

Getting More with Auto-Tune

February 3, 2020

Dave on DynOne

January 10, 2020

Pensado EQ

December 13, 2019

Seven Hip-Hop Reverbs

September 10, 2019

How to Widen Kicks, Bass, & 808s

June 5, 2019

Vocal Echo Throw

May 22, 2019

Boutique Compressors

May 16, 2019

Taming Transients (A New Approach)

May 6, 2019

Vocal Effects on T-Pain

April 15, 2019

Widening with StageOne

April 1, 2019

Transient Shaping For Energy

March 11, 2019

How To Make Vocals Cut

March 4, 2019

Enhancing Vocals With an LFO

February 11, 2019

How I Reference Mixes in 2019

February 4, 2019

Reverbs and Expanders

January 15, 2019

How To Use Echo & Reverse Reverb In 2019

January 7, 2019

New EDM Kicks for 2019

December 17, 2018

808 Punch With Limiters

December 10, 2018

Using Formant Reverb In A Mix

December 3, 2018

Soundtrack of an Inferno

November 19, 2018

5 New Plugins I Use On All Mixes

November 12, 2018

5 New Must Have EQ’s

November 5, 2018

6 Things You Need to Know About Studio Monitors

October 29, 2018

Eventide SP2016: A Classic Reinvented

October 22, 2018

Synths: Injecting Chorus and Space

October 15, 2018

Bass: All About That

October 8, 2018

Mix Tips: Total Studio 2 Max

October 1, 2018

Synth Effects on Guitars

September 24, 2018

Mixing Drum Toms

September 17, 2018

Sonarworks Reference 4

September 10, 2018

Acoustic Guitars: A New Approach

September 4, 2018

Kick Drum Synths

August 27, 2018

Radio Shack Reverb

August 21, 2018

Native Instruments Sounds.com

August 6, 2018

Guitars: Creating Movement

July 30, 2018

Mono Instruments to Stereo

July 23, 2018

Keyboards: How to Make Them Cut

July 2, 2018

Bass: Musical and Dirty

June 25, 2018

Master Bus Clipping

June 10, 2018

Widening 808 Kicks and Bass

May 27, 2018

Keyboard FX: A New Approach

May 21, 2018

Loops

May 14, 2018

Dave Pensado’s Stereo Bus

May 12, 2018

Dave’s Drum Aux

May 4, 2018

My Drum Aux

April 23, 2018

Vocal Ducking Delays

April 7, 2018

Remove Bleed from Drums

March 28, 2018

4 New Reverbs

March 16, 2018

Mariah Carey Vocal Top End

March 9, 2018

Heavyocity Punish Plugin

March 3, 2018

Soundways

February 23, 2018

IK Multimedia T-RackS 5

February 9, 2018

Vocal Transients

December 3, 2017

EDM Bass Lines

November 17, 2017

TASCAM Track Factory

October 27, 2017

Jack Joseph Puig Vocals Plugin

October 15, 2017

Helix Native

September 22, 2017

Live Snare Techniques – Into The Lair #171

September 15, 2017

How to Win a Mix Contest

September 9, 2017

Virtual Guitar Amps

September 1, 2017

Diamond EQ with Luca Pretolesi

August 25, 2017

Loudness on Streaming

August 20, 2017

DADA Life Plugin

August 11, 2017

3 Click Tricks

August 4, 2017

My Top 5 Latest & Greatest Plugins

July 28, 2017

Mixing Drums with LANDR

July 19, 2017

My Top 5 Favorite IK Multimedia Plugins

May 19, 2017

Michele’s Studio Tour

February 23, 2017

UAD 610 Mic Pre

January 17, 2017

Hip Up Your Pads – Into The Lair #159

January 10, 2017

Fun with Wah-Wah’s

January 3, 2017

Limiters: Under The Hood

December 22, 2016

Mixing with Guitar Pedals

December 10, 2016

Kick Drums: Adding Attack with Soccer Balls

December 3, 2016

Music Aux’s

November 27, 2016

Synth Concepts

November 21, 2016

Boutique Plugins

November 8, 2016

Different Uses For Plugins

November 7, 2016

Making Your Own Reverb

October 27, 2016

Cleaning Up Stacked Vocals

October 25, 2016

Transient Shapers

October 22, 2016

New Uses for Virtual Guitar Amps

October 20, 2016

Adding Attack to Synths

October 17, 2016

Power Cables – Into The Lair #145

October 13, 2016

Re-Amping with Joe Barresi

July 1, 2016

Top 10 Pedals with Joe Baressi

June 22, 2016

Recording Rock Guitars In a Non Rock Environment

June 18, 2016

Plugins At the Desk – Into The Lair #141

June 7, 2016

Mixing Acoustic Guitars

June 2, 2016

iZotope Ozone 7

May 26, 2016

3 Pieces of Gear I Use On Every Mix

February 29, 2016

Dave Demos Universal Audio’s UAD Plug-Ins

February 24, 2016

Producing Indian Music with Gaurav Dayal pt.2

February 23, 2016

Producing Indian Music with Gaurav Dayal pt.1

February 23, 2016

Create Energy Using Modulation

December 7, 2015

Adding Attack to Kick Drums

December 7, 2015

Creating Depth with Transients

November 17, 2015

Add Punch to Kick Drums

November 12, 2015

Abbey Road Reverb Technique

November 12, 2015

How to Mix Massive Kick Drums

October 28, 2015

How To Create Drum Samples (Part 2)

September 17, 2015

How To Create Drum Samples (Part 1)

September 17, 2015

Effects Plug-Ins & Advanced Modulations

August 20, 2015

Creating Reverse Snares

August 12, 2015

Mixing Rhodes Pianos

August 4, 2015

Mixing Hi-Hats

June 30, 2015

Mixing Drum Room Tracks

June 19, 2015

Creating Drum Loops

March 10, 2015

Mixing Big Drums

March 3, 2015

Mixing Vocals

February 24, 2015

How to Get WIDE Stereo Tracks

January 28, 2015

Telefunken 251 Microphone Overview by John McBride

January 15, 2015

Mixing FAT Kick Drums

January 5, 2015

Mixing Big Fat Snares

December 30, 2014

5 Favorite Mix Buss Plugins of 2014

December 26, 2014

3 Must Have Plugins

November 11, 2014

Mixing Background Vocals

November 3, 2014

Fix the Transients in Your Mix

October 13, 2014

How to Use VST/AU Plugins in Pro Tools

October 7, 2014

Mix Tips From a Mastering Engineer, Part 2

September 22, 2014

How To Mix Bass That Cuts

August 19, 2014

New Ways To Mix Reverb

July 15, 2014

Mastering Techniques For Better Dynamics

July 7, 2014

Mixing Vocals With Multiple Delays

June 9, 2014

Mixing Vocals With Parametric EQ

June 1, 2014

iZotope Nectar 2 Plugin Overview

May 12, 2014

AEA N22 Nuvo Series Microphone

April 28, 2014

How to Use Filters When Mixing Bass

April 21, 2014

How To Widen Guitars

March 17, 2014

Creative Vocal Delays and Effects

March 10, 2014

EQ Tricks for Bass and Kicks

March 4, 2014

How To Mix Electric Guitars

February 25, 2014

How to Mix Vocals That Cut

February 5, 2014

How to Mix 808s

January 19, 2014

A New Way To Use Reference Mixes

January 2, 2014

Slap Delays Tips and Tricks

December 29, 2013

5 Plugins You Should Know

December 9, 2013

iZotope RX3 Plugin Overview

November 21, 2013

Dave’s Favorite McDSP Plugins

November 17, 2013

Mixing Kick Drums

November 4, 2013

Digital Clipping is Your Friend!

October 28, 2013

How To Fix Over De-Ess’d Vocals

October 14, 2013

How To Mix Rock Guitars (And Get Them WIDE!)

September 30, 2013

Mixing Live Drums

September 25, 2013

Get Great Vocal Reverbs Using 3 Mono Sources

September 23, 2013

A New Idea for Vocal Delays

September 16, 2013

Vocal EQ Techniques

September 14, 2013

All About Audio Compression Ratios

September 9, 2013

Vocal EQ Techniques

September 4, 2013

How To Create Reverb Effects from Delays

August 22, 2013

Keyboard Shortcuts You Need To Know

May 20, 2013

Get GIANT Synth Bass Tracks In Your Mixes

May 13, 2013

Master Low End on Stereo Bass Tracks

May 13, 2013

Stereo Hi-Pass/Lo-Pass Filter Technique

April 29, 2013

Vocal Delay Effect Tricks and Tips

April 12, 2013

Humanizing Digital Tracks

April 8, 2013

How to Use Reference Mixes

March 29, 2013

How To Mix A Song Based on It’s Style

March 17, 2013

The Top 5 Things To Do Every Mix

March 15, 2013

Audio Mix Trick Using a Signal Generator

March 13, 2013

New Side Chain Compression Techniques

February 25, 2013

Dissecting a Mix, Part 2

February 15, 2013

Dissecting a Mix, Part 1

February 7, 2013

Retaining Transients When Using Limiters

January 29, 2013

Creating Vocal Delays Without Plug-ins or Hardware

January 11, 2013

Mixing Vocals for Earth Wind & Fire

January 4, 2013

Ear Training Part 2

December 17, 2012

Working With Low Frequencies

December 9, 2012

Ear Training Part 1

December 7, 2012

Eighties Snare Drum Trick

December 3, 2012

Tracking Drums with Greg Wells and Ian MacGregor

November 30, 2012

Top 10 Mix Mistakes, Part 1

November 15, 2012

Top 10 Mix Mistakes, Part 2

November 15, 2012

Advanced Parallel Compression Techniques

November 3, 2012

DBX 160 + Pultec Kick and Snare Parallel Compression Trick

October 29, 2012

Mixing Pro Lead Vocal Tracks

October 22, 2012

Mixing Multiple Synthesizers (Similar Frequency Ranges)

October 22, 2012

Manipulating Top End on Vocal Tracks

October 10, 2012

How to Mix Cymbals

October 7, 2012

Enhancing Elements of a Mix

September 27, 2012

Creating Loud Tracks with EQ & Compression

September 18, 2012

How To Make Your Mixes LOUD!

September 7, 2012

Ozone 5 Advanced Overview with Dave Pensado

August 30, 2012

Various Types of Reverbs

August 20, 2012

Working With Multiple Instrument Tracks

August 9, 2012

Working with Bass and Kick Drums

August 2, 2012

How to Use Aux Sends While Mixing

July 26, 2012

Creating Interesting Vocal Effects

July 11, 2012

Triggering Drum Effects Using Samples

July 5, 2012

Telefunken Mic Shootout, Part 2

June 29, 2012

Telefunken Mic Shootout

June 22, 2012

Instrument Levels in a Mix

June 13, 2012

Using Pads While Mixing

June 8, 2012

Techniques for Mixing Synthesizers

May 24, 2012

Vocal Delay Techniques

May 17, 2012

Mid-Side EQ Technique

May 10, 2012

Vocal Mixing with EQ, Compression, and Effects, Part 2

May 3, 2012

Vocal Mixing with EQ, Compression, and Effects, Part 1

April 30, 2012