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4 days ago | 
bobbyowsinskiblog.com | Bobby Owsinski
If you’ve been mixing for a while you know that a vocal or piece of dialog with sibilance could mean a struggle, often resulting in trying a few different de-esser plugins to find the one that works. Even then, it was never perfect, and you still ended up dialing in some automation to take care of some of the more egregious sections.
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5 days ago | 
bobbyowsinskiblog.com | Bobby Owsinski
I know you just read the title and thought, “I know about white and pink noise, but what the heck is brown and blue noise?” Well, they’re a real thing and used more often than you think. But the differences between white, pink, blue and brown? It all comes down to frequency and amplitude. While we’re all familiar with background or ambient noise, audio engineers have been dealing with electronic noise for decades.
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1 week ago | 
bobbyowsinskiblog.com | Bobby Owsinski
In this week’s podcast episode, I bring back my popular music and audio industry news segment with a full episode dedicated to stories that matter—but often fly under the radar.
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1 week ago | 
bobbyowsinskiblog.com | Bobby Owsinski
Microphones are like guitars – they all sound different, and that makes us want to collect them. Just like guitars, that can get expensive, but luckily the virtual microphone comes to the rescue, where you can select from a wide variety of popular mic emulations for a fraction of the cost of purchasing an entire mic locker. Slate Digital has been involved with virtual mics almost from the beginning of the genre, and it’s latest ML-1A takes up where its older ML-1 left off.
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2 weeks ago | 
bobbyowsinskiblog.com | Bobby Owsinski
You’ve probably heard the term “peak oil” where the maximum rate of production has been reached and it only decreases from that point on. We’ve also seen “peak television” and “peak music,” and there’s probably a whole lot more “peaks” that I can’t think of right now. But when it comes to audio creation and mixing, we may have already reached the point of “peak plugins.” Let me explain.
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2 weeks ago | 
bobbyowsinskiblog.com | Bobby Owsinski
In this week’s podcast episode, my guest today is owner and president of HIP Video Promo Andy Gesner. Andy’s firsthand experience in playing in bands and releasing records gives him a special insight into music promotion and marketing. Over the past 25 years, he has built HIP from the ground up, developing innovative promotional strategies that adapt to the ever-changing media landscape.
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2 weeks ago | 
bobbyowsinskiblog.com | Bobby Owsinski
Prepping the vocals is a time-consuming process for most engineers, with leveling words and phrases, dealing with sibilance, and editing breathes and noise taking more time than anyone would like. I know some A-list engineers that used to spend as much as 8 hours on this process, but that may be all in the past thanks to Noiseworks DynAssist, a processor that uses AI to streamline the vocal prep process.
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3 weeks ago | 
bobbyowsinskiblog.com | Bobby Owsinski
In this week’s podcast episode, my guest is someone who’s spent the last 35 years on a mission to protect the hearing of musicians, audio pros, and music lovers alike. Dr. Michael Santucci is an audiologist and the founder of Sensaphonics, a custom in-ear monitor company that’s become a go-to for top performers around the world. What sets Michael apart is that he’s not just running a company—he’s an audiologist first.
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3 weeks ago | 
bobbyowsinskiblog.com | Bobby Owsinski
It’s very easy to get great piano sounds from either an electronic keyboard or virtual instrument these days, but I think everyone will agree that there’s nothing like playing, feeling, and hearing the real thing. The problem is weight and size, which keeps most players from putting one in their home studio. But what if there was a real piano that was small enough to fit almost anywhere? That’s what you’ll find with the new Keybird L1, the world’s smallest acoustic piano.
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4 weeks ago | 
bobbyowsinskiblog.com | Bobby Owsinski
I recently came across a post on Octiive regarding the top 5 Digital Audio Workstations for music producers in 2025 that got me thinking about how we evaluate what may be the most critical tool in our music creation toolbox. It’s critical because its central to our music, regardless of the genre we’re in, so the right choice means that you’re going to get the results your looking for a lot faster. In other words, choosing your favorite DAW is likely to make your creative life much easier.